5/15/2023 0 Comments StrangelandAnd Genevieve still has intense nightmares. But, the memories of what Hendricks did are still fresh in the minds of Helverton's residents. While he's under the influence of his medicine, Hendricks is timid and apologetic about what he did. Hendricks moves back to his old neighborhood. Three years later, Hendricks is released.ĭoctors at the Meistrich Institute state that Hendricks, who has been diagnosed as a schizophrenic with a severe chemical imbalance, is okay as long as he is on his medication. But a year later, Hendricks is declared not guilty by reason of insanity and he is put in the Meistrich Psychiatric Institute. After a brief struggle in which Captain Howdy gets shot, Mike arrests Captain Howdy, whose real name is Carlton Hendricks ( Dee Snider). Gage not only finds Genevieve naked and bound, with her mouth stitched shut, but also five other teenagers who are in similar predicaments. Later, however, he figures out Captain Howdy's location, and finds Captain Howdy's torture chamber. Meeting the mysterious Captain Howdy online, Mike gets Captain Howdy to invite him to a party, but Mike's planned bust goes awry. ![]() But it is not until Mike's niece Angela Stravelli ( Amy Smart) informs him of Genevieve's penchant for meeting strangers through the Internet that Mike gets his first lead. Mike discovers that Captain Howdy is into "body art" that includes great quantities of tattooing, piercing, branding, and scarification. Tiana's tortured body is found in the car's trunk with her mouth stitched shut, and there is no sign of Genevieve. The case takes an unexpected turn when Tiana's car is pulled out of a lake. With the assistance of a younger cop named Steve Christian (Brett Harretson), Gage begins searching for Genevieve and Tiana. When neither Genevieve nor Tiana has returned home by the next morning, Toni alerts Mike. What Captain Howdy doesn't know is that Genevieve's father is local cop Mike Gage ( Kevin Gage), whose wife is named Toni ( Elizabeth Peña). As it turns out, Captain Howdy has lured them into a darkness from which there may be no escape. Upon "meeting" another apparent student who goes by the screen name of "Captain Howdy," Genevieve and Tiana decide to attend a party at Captain Howdy's house. Fifteen-year-old Genevieve Gage ( Linda Cardellini) and her best friend Tiana Moore (Amat Rhoe) are typical high school students who spend their idle time surfing the Internet and sending messages to strangers via chat rooms. But when the badly burned and mentally broken Carlton Hendricks is taken from a state run mental hospital and off his medication by billionaire, media mogul, Morgan LaForce, leader of the body modification/fetish haven called “The Torture Garden”, the door swings wide open for each of Captain Howdy’s victims to find closure… and retribution.The place is Helverton, Colorado, a town of about 350,000 people. Their lives, destroyed by emotional torment and the media frenzy surrounding the crimes, Detective Mike Gage, his daughter Geneveve and vigilante Jackson Roth (Robert Englund) each have their crosses to bear. Last we heard, the plot for Strangeland 2 was as follows: “ One year after Carleton Hendricks aka Captain Howdy’s (Dee Snider) sadistic rampage, much more than the physical scars the schizophrenic, sexual sadist gave his victims are left behind. Feeling like this is gonna happen this time around – I’ve also said that before, so don’t hold me to this. And I hate even saying it out loud, cause you’ve had so many disappointments with this project. I know I’ve talked about this for twenty years. ![]() gearing up to hopefully go into production with Strangeland 2. Taking to Facebook over the weekend, Dee Snider posted a short video promoting some of his upcoming projects, and in it he provided an update on the Strangeland sequel: ![]() In fact, a sequel to Strangeland was originally given the green light before the first film even came out, which just goes to show how long it’s been in development! The charmingly dated film, directed by John Pieplow, has amassed a cult fanbase over the years, and many of those fans have been begging for a sequel that’s been talked about for a while now. Just as the internet was starting to take over the world, Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider smartly capitalized by writing and starring in the horror film Strangeland, released in 1998. Nearly 20 years ago, we met Captain Howdy.
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