Its half-hearted attempts at suspense sequences are borrowed from “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Seven,” and allow the audience to stay at least 10 steps ahead of the dimwitted detectives. It is hard to say which is the film’s biggest crime: not being scary or not being funny. Captain Howdy / Carleton Hendricks, Dee Snider. Pic ends indecisively: It’s unclear whether Howdy is dead or kept alive for a sequel that no one will ever ask for. Yes, that Dee Snider - the bizarre former lead singer of Twisted Sister. Howdy quickly extracts revenge on the would-be vigilantes, then re-kidnaps the detective’s daughter, leading to another limp face-off between Howdy and Gage. The hanging doesn’t kill him, and somehow the benign-looking Carleton Hendricks has a serial-killer makeover, compete with the facial tattoos, piercings and hairdo.
It’s left open as to whether Howdy, properly medicated, is truly reformed, but it doesn’t matter: Within hours of his return home, he’s hanged from a tree by an angry mob led by a redneck (Robert Englund, trading in his Freddy Krueger claws for a beer bottle). Unaccountably, the child-murdering Howdy, having traded in his bright-red dreadlocks for an Ichabod Crane-style ponytail, is released from the institution in less then four years. In a February 2009 interview with FlickDirect, Snider stated about 'Strangeland: Disciple', the proposed follow-up to 'Strangeland', ' Hostel and Saw are children of Strangeland. Despite his ineptitude, Gage finds the culprit and his captive daughter in the film’s first 45 minutes, resulting in Howdy being hauled off to a loony bin. Strangeland Dee Snider Format: Audio CD 52 ratings 4 99 See all 2 formats and editions Audio CD 4.99 8 Used from 4.99 1 Collectible from 29.75 Customers who viewed this item also viewed of 1 We Are the Ones Dee Snider 147 Audio CD 17 offers from 5. Being a first time father and hearing about some piece of. In my mind I was the cop out for revenge not the villain. Howdy, make a date and, before you can sing a line of “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” one of the girls (Linda Cardellini) is strung up by her wrists with her lips sown shut.Īny potential is quickly doused when story switches gears and becomes a badly staged police procedural documenting the bumbling work of detectives Christian (Brett Harrelson) and Gage (Kevin Gage), the latter of whom just happens to be the captive girl’s father. What inspired you to make the film (Strangeland) and what inspired the character of Captain Howdy Dee Snider: Being a first time father and hearing about some piece of shit child abuser who was let off on a technicality. Initial five minutes provide the only real scares: Two young girls innocently flirt in an Internet chat-room with someone named Capt.
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