Sewing their eyes and mouths shut before practicing the most extreme body modifications one can imagine on them next to candle light.
To round out the bad guy unholy triumvirate, there’s also the way Captain Howdy chooses to torture and murder his victims. Howdy speaks only in freaky-ass, deep philosophical quotes like “There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who strikes at its roots.” And he also isn’t above testosterone-fueled one liners like, “How about I come over there and beat the dog shit out of you?”
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Mostly naked and covered in large piercings and even larger tattoos, he spends his time either hanging from a pull up bar or hanging from his own skin off large hooks in the ceiling. By that I mean he’s not only tall but jacked as hell. Captain Howdy is both visually and physically intimidating. It will forever be a mystery that Dee Snider’s performance in Strangeland isn’t talked about more. It must be painful and it must leave a mark.” “We must all go through a rite of passage. It’s there we meet Captain Howdy and his whole bag of what the fuck. When they find Genevieve’s friend dead in the trunk of a car with her mouth sewn shut and an overly large septum gauge, it leads them into the body modification underworld. Genevieve’s dad, Kevin Gage ( Mike Gage), is a noir type, rough around the edges detective who’s burning the candle at both ends and suffering deeply working his own daughter’s case as his wife begs for answers. His profile says he’s into “Street hockey, snowboarding and going to concerts,” and his favorite quote is “Hey bud, where’s the kegger?” He invites them to his house for a party while his parents are out of town as you might expect, they soon go missing. The girls meet a cool sounding dude in the chat named “CaptHowdy” (probably should have been their first red flag). Which is another reason why Strangeland felt like such an original exercise in depravity.
But we were so enamored with this new technology, nobody really thought much about safety at the time. It was the Wild West of human connection via the internet. This was a time when we didn’t even have profile pictures available to us. Watching today, it’s a wild reminder of the days when you’d meet someone who “sounded hot” on their personal profile and would instant message them knowing next to nothing about them. Genevieve Gage (a gothed-up Linda Cardellini) is explaining to her friend the intricacies of early internet AOL style chat rooms. “Someday we’ll meet, marry and have cyber sex with the man of our dreams online.” Scares, a kick ass metal soundtrack, the birth of internet horror and Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider (who wrote the film as well) coming off the top rope and shocking the hell out of you with one of the scariest villain performances ever. An absolute blind rental that ended up blowing your mind and making you feel like you knew something no-one else was aware of. Strangelandwas one of those random bubblecase VHS horror rentals from the local video store that made you feel like you’d won the lottery.
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