With the discharge of Strangeland in 1998, author/star Dee Snider and director John Pieplow launched us to Carleton Hendricks, a.ok.a. Captain Howdy, a person who would log into web chat rooms with the intention of luring youngsters over to his home so he might put them via torturous physique modification “coming of age” rituals. On the movie’s audio commentary, Snider promised that viewers might absolutely anticipate to see a multi-installment Captain Howdy franchise. Sadly, a sequel has by no means been made, regardless of Snider attempting to get the mission arrange with a number of firms through the years. He was nonetheless holding on to hope as just lately as 2017… however whereas we wait to see if Strangeland 2 is ever going to occur, we do lastly have a brand new piece of Captain Howdy leisure to take pleasure in, as Snider has teamed up with writer Christian Francis to write down a novelization of his unique Strangeland screenplay! The guide can be reaching cabinets on October 22 and is obtainable for pre-order on Amazon.
Francis has written lots of novelizations just lately, together with Session 9, Within the Mouth of Insanity, The Gate, The First Energy, and the Maniac Cop trilogy.
With a web page rely of 248, the Strangeland novelization will inform us the next story: The Web was supposed to attach folks. For Captain Howdy, it’s the right searching floor. Behind the display screen waits a sadist who lures youngsters into his world of formality piercing, physique suspension, and unrelenting torment. To him, ache is reality. Flesh is canvas. And his victims are masterpieces. When Detective Mike Gage’s daughter disappears, the hunt leads the police right into a nightmare of needles, hooks, and cages. A carnival of physique modification dominated by a madman who believes he’s a prophet. However Howdy isn’t simply one other predator; he’s a believer, and his gospel is written in ache. Strangeland drags you screaming via the shadows of suburbia right into a world the place torture is transcendence, horror wears a human face, and salvation might come too late. Welcome to Captain Howdy’s playground. When you enter, you don’t come again the identical.
I’ve actually been hoping that Snider would get to make Strangeland 2 sometime, as I really feel that Strangeland is without doubt one of the finest, most underrated and underseen horror movies of the ’90s. I sit up for seeing how Snider and Francis have fleshed the story out on the web page within the novelization.
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