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The lack of computer knowledge, from the painfully primitive chat program that only connects to people in the nearby area to the sysadmins not knowing how to look up things like IP addresses (though somehow knowing that an ID was fake without checking into it) was an obvious flaw in the movie. (3) Learn about computers and the internet. He might be meant as a vocal counterpoint to the mostly silent cop, Gage, but rarely does his lines add anything to the scene and it could have been nice to have someone else in his place. All he does is act surly and agitated and the actor often flubs the delivery of lines. Likewise, get rid of the hot-headed younger partner: Steve (?) Christian. Also, if that short stint in the asylum was meant to be a stab about justice, drop it, too. Dropping the incessant preaching also means canning the cheap Christian stab or flesh it out. Unless you are going to say that raping people is justified as long as you have bitching tats and face piercings, I don't want to keep hearing it.
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The movie is pitched like a manifesto, playing both sides of the fence, and should stop it. Hearing Dee Snider go on and on about spiritual awakenings and how no-one understands the body modifier or the need for death, regularly repeating lines already said, begins to get old. If all of his preaching came out in a couple of key scenes, then it might work. These are my twelve key elements that should be tweaked, rewritten, or rethought to make Strangeland a decent movie. I think this is a movie that convinced people it was more than the sum of its parts, and it could even be less. It currently has four stars over on Amazon, across 150 reviews but most of the reasonable ones deride the acting, the plot, the handling of key elements, and still give it four or five stars. What is perhaps neat about it is the fact that nearly every single failing can be summed up in a few sentences, so that in potential you can easily see a better movie come out of it. These things I point out, because they are true, but I would not say make it an important movie.
The most important aspects of it are, possibly, its precursor aspects to torture porn and its forebearing horror icons like Jigsaw. It is filled with constant, repetitive preaching and long moments where little happens followed by big moments that would be stretched out in better films.
It has some style, but too much in a couple of spots and is utterly devoid of it in other spots. Now the two men play a game of cat-and-mouse, pitching worldview versus worldview, with the cop's daughter being, once again, the prize. His tortures are crazier, more violent, and he has it out for the cop who he felt has let him down by not protecting him from the lynch mob. The caged girl's dad is a cop who finally tracks him down, saves the teens, and then watches as C.H., real name Carleton Hendricks, is declared insane and released after only three years of institutionalized care.īut while Carleton seems to want to be on the up and up, the neighborhood folk disbelieve his good intentions, harry and harrass him until a lynching goes awry, and Captain Howdy returns. Captain Howdy has four other teens trapped in his house and is subjecting them to torture, abuse, incessant preaching, genital mutilation, non-consensual piercings, and a variety of other joys and pains. The other is in a cage, also with a sewn mouth, and has been raped and cathetered so her urine is collected in a bowl. The next time we see one of the girls, she is dead with her eyes and mouth sewed shut, locked in the trunk of her car. Here they meet CaptHowdy who invites them to a party. Strangeland opens with two girls in a chatroom environment reminiscent, but more primitive, of AOL's old pre-AIM set up. BLOT: ( - 01:12:11 PM) Twelve things that would have made Dee Snider's Strangeland a decent movie
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