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Summary: THE LAMEST PIECE I HAVE EVER VIEWED!
Review: DO YOUR SELF A HUGE FAVOR AVOID THIS FILM, NOT ONLY DOES IT BLOW CHUNKS BUT, IT ALSO DRAGS ON AND ON AND ITS UNDER 1 HOUR AND FORTY MINUTES LONG. THAT SHOULD GIVE YOU A BIG HINT.
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Summary: The worst movie ever!
Review: I watched about 1/2 of it and turned it off. Boring and stupid. I can compare it some scary movies made in the 80's! What a waste of money! Don't buy it, for sure.
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Summary: IT WAS MEANT TO BE A SCARY MOVIE
Review: Before I ever rented the movie Strangeland. I went on-line to check the reviews of what others thought of this movie and most places I checked was a negative review. I am a big fan of Kevin Gage so I decided to rent it anyway. As far as a Scary movie I would have to rate it in a positive light, and now realize that those who put a negative statement to this movie just don't like scary movies and should go back to rating Disney movies instead. This movie did what it was called to do. "Scare you", and had a great cast on top of it all. If you don't like nudity then don't watch this movie. It is very graphic. Dee did a great job playing a very realistic psycho. I will buy the movie.
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Summary: a memorable horror masterpiece
Review: strangeland is about a man who seduces young girls to his house via internet chat pretending to be a typical high school boy but and proceeds to torture them and pierce there skin until they go into cardiac arrest and die. Our manipulative killer played by lead actor director of this movie dee snider from twisted sister has kidnapped a detectives daughter and is playing mind games with the detective daring him to find him and the detective atually does find him and sends him to jail but he pleaded insanity and was sent to a mental hospital for four years and was then released back into his neighbour hood where the townspeople still believe he is evil, and he is and he kidnaps the detectives daughter again wich leads to an exiting finale. A very good movie about something that's so capable of happening it really frightens you and a great soundtrack to go along with the movie. highly reccomended
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Summary: Watch at own risk
Review: Sick, twisted film about goth-looney Snider who abducts young people through an online chat site and tortures them in his own little house of horrors (wall to wall S&M, body piercing etc). Gloomy, poorly written junk that not only thrives in non-stop unpleasantness but subjects an innocent girl not once but twice to Sniders wretched wrath. Anyone who views this as entertainment needs their own head checked.
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Summary: one of the best horror films ever
Review: a must see for the young and teenage girls and boys, this movie is not for the faint of heart or the squemish. the tale of a pyschopath named Capt Howdy (played brilliantly by Dee Snider, lead singer of the now defunct rock band Twisted Sister) who prowls chat rooms for teenage girls who he then seduces into his lair where he tortures them with piercing and taunts his prey.
the movie is ninety minutes long and is quite fast paced, maybe too fast paced judging by some of the reviews here. i was quite shocked to see people did not like this. taking the computer and the internet and making a modern day horror in the vein of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS was a stroke of genius. Dee Snider was working on this since 1984's STAY HUNGRY. it was the birth of his daughter (and the fear he cannot protect her) that inspired him to write "Horror-teria" (on STAY HUNGRY) which consisted of the songs "CAPT HOWDY" and "STREET JUSTICE"
The movie is quite graphic at times but i think kids need to see that so they are aware that of the dangers of the internet. this is one of the most frightening movies i have ever watched because it could happen. it is not too far from reality. i find some of this movie quite realistic. i can explain jason of friday the 13th and halloween away to my kids as "just a movie" but this one is so real at times, it is a little harder to brush off.
as for the DVD features, there is the trailer, some production notes, a good commentary by writer/producer Dee Snider, and some stuff on the soundtrack. worthy of your attention is the soundtrack. if you like the music in this film then you will love the soundtrack. it is as awesome as the movie.
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Summary: Nothing special
Review: Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider wanted to make a horror movie that would be nothing less than shocking at a time when teen-slasher films were beginning to rule the genre. Strangeland has a lot going for it: nice casting (Robert Englund is always great, even when he's not playing everyone's favorite razor clawed killer) and some nicely done torture scenes, but other than that the film falls flat on it's face thanks to the lackluster direction, and Dee Snider's overacted performance as sadomasochistic killer Captain Howdy. The film's story revolves around Captain Howdy luring in young teen girls over the internet, and afterwards he proceeds to sew their mouths shut and torture them. Snider's overacting borderlines on camp levels, and you can tell the man's ego (he wrote and produced as well) played a big part in getting Strangeland rolling. Rob Zombie did a much better job making a truly shocking horror film with House of 1000 Corpses, which I strongly suggest checking out instead of this turkey.
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Summary: watch it for the torture scenes
Review: This story has a lot more promise to it then was taken advantage of. Snider brings up a few intresting points about hypocracy, media, insanity, etc but instead of giving meat to the story he chooses to gloss over them and ditch them for a simple revenge plot. It all comes off as very contrived and unfortunatly also takes itself to seriously.
Also the whole IM/chat use in the story comes off as a little dated by now (young character has never heard of IM and pronounces it as a word).
This movie feels as though it was confused to where it was going itself morally. At the begining of the movie you dislike the killer, midpoint you feel for the killer and then the movie wants you to hate him again.
It also feels off focus as the killer was given more substance then the main character (the detective) was. Possibly due to the egotism?
I feel that snider wanted to say something more with this movie but unfortunatly didn't quite pull it off. Personally feel he should have made more of the great torure scenes and ditched any pretense of story. Going that far might as well say ditch any pretense of giving a damn about any other charcters, captian howdy ws the star.
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Summary: Misanthropy at its best.
Review: I've read every single reveiw on here and have noticed none of the people have a very open eye for creativity.This movie is absolutely amazing, educational in many ways, and everything else mixed into it. Failing to notice these points of veiws are just outright stupid. Charles Manson had a million and a half good points and so did the imfamous "CaptHowdy", but their mental instability kept them from releasing them in a positive way, and the others around them were to ignorant and blind to see past their shell and look into a new life, whats really going on in the world. You people fail to understand that this movie could very easily become a reality, the detectives weren't "stupid", the guy was using a stolen cell phone, stolen credit card, everything. Perhaps your the stupid ones? Skipping over little details. This movie is a buy and a half, get it, watch it, and love it, thats all I have to say.
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Summary: Another WTF movie
Review: Strangeland is not a horror film, or at least an ordinary one. True chances are you will find this in the Horror section of most rental or retail however as in content, it ranges more along the lines of a suspens thriller. Dee Snider plays Captain Howdy and sexual predator who lures teens through an online chatroom. From there he tortures them with piercing. For the first half of the movie he is basically torturing his victims and being poetic. Then in the second half he has been rehabilitated after his arrest. However a group of drunken hicks don't like it so they hang him. From there he reverts back to his old ways and gets his revenge. The reason this is a WTF movie is because of content. IT holds gratiouse nudity and scenes of torture. THis is not for everyone however as it is most nausiating. Proceed with caution.
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