![]() Mixing genre elements from The Silence of the Lambs, Seven, and various cyber thrillers, StrangeLand is the tale of Captain Howdy (Snider), a deranged online predator who uses teen chat rooms to lure unsuspecting (and inanely naive) high-schoolers to their doom (said doom being set in what looks like a well-manicured suburban tract home). As Snider himself would say, you can't stop rock & roll, but I suspect his film career may be dead on arrival, and not a moment too soon. Who knew the world's first modern-primitive slasher/detective/thriller would come from the thoroughly creepy pen of Twisted Sister frontman (and arch-foe of Tipper Gore and the PMRC) Dee Snider? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked – not that Snider could write and produce and star in this repugnant freakfest, but that it's so very, very bad. Returning for revenge in the sequel is Robert Englund (Nightmare On Elm Street's Freddie Krueger), who called Strangeland a "bona-fide cult hit." In the original, he played Jackson Roth, one of Captain's Howdy's victims.Strange is an understatement. Music will be important to me again for the sequel," adds Snider. We really tried to create the ultimate heavy soundtrack. "Music was intrinsic to me in the first one. The success of the soundtrack led to a Strangeland tour, which Snider hopes to resurrect once again for Strangeland: Disciple, in an effort to grace the contours of his demented vision. The 1998 soundtrack included an incredible array of bands�System Of A Down, Sevendust, Soulfly, Slipknot, Kid Rock, Coal Chamber, Twisted Sister, Megadeth, Marilyn Manson and Pantera�handpicked by Snider. In these days of various platforms merging, it is great to be able to work with someone like Dee who is so multi-faceted." Larry Meistrich, formerly of The Shooting Gallery, now operates Nehst Pictures and says, "I am very excited to be back in business with Dee Snider again! Strangeland was a great experience and I know the sequel is going to be better than the original. Strangeland was produced in conjunction with The Shooting Gallery, the studio for Sling Blade and Croupier. Strangeland: Disciple promises to be ultra-intense, taking place in the underworld of body modification fetishists, amid the secret sado-masochistic freak societies of perverted pleasures that lurk just underneath the veneer of respectable society. "And if I am the father of torture films, I've got to come back like a sledgehammer to reclaim my crown!" To that end, Strangeland: Disciple will come complete with an NC-17 rating right out of the box. "I came up with the idea of Internet crime before anybody had ever committed Internet crime," says Snider. ![]() Strangeland is the story of a schizophrenic sexual sadist who lures victims via the Internet, forcing them to submit to ancient tribal rituals. What's much worse than being chased and dying is being helpless and suffering." When you're being chased, there's the chance of escape. Horror, traditionally, plays on people's fears of being chased and dying. "At the time, I really wanted to re-invent the wheel of horror. Snider wrote and co-produced the original film in 1994, pre-dating the cinematic vogue for torture film franchises like Saw and Hostel. (PR) Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider will reprise his role as Captain Howdy in the 1998 cult horror classic Strangeland when Strangeland: Disciple goes into production later this year. ![]()
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