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Overall Rating
3.14

Awesome: 30.51%
Worth A Look: 23.73%
Average: 6.78%
Pretty Bad: 6.78%
Total Crap32.2%

1 review, 53 user ratings


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by roxy

"dee snyder's not gonna take it, and he's gonna torture you!"
4 stars

nipples and noserings... right up my alley.

i didn't expect to like this movie. i mean, i only went because i think dee snyder is so funny that he fails to be a person any more and is now just a humorous concept. but natalie invited me to go, and we went.
there was only three other people in the movie theatre; a couple who you could tell were big twisted sister fans back in the day, and a stuffy business man who you could tell was the biggest S&M freak when he got home from the office and was wearing nipple clamps under his suit.
i arrived late, and the first idea i got was that two girls had been kidnapped after meeting a guy online and going to his house (of course, fueling suspicion of all parents who are wary of online chatting), and one was (naturally) the daughter of a detective. the detective spends all his time searching for the captor of his daughter and murderer of her friend, and finds Dee Snyder's Torture Den (!!! YEAH!!!!) and pistol whips that bitch and gets his kid back.
it doesn't end there, though. good ol' dee (his name is carlton hendricks something, i think... his screenname is CAPTHOWDY on the aol knockoff they created for the movie) goes to an insane asylum and is given medicine to make him not be a psycho torturer anymore...
it all works, and the medicine also turns him into a big nerd, which is funny. anyway, the people in the town persecute him and call him a monster even though he REALLY IS better now...and a bunch of people led by robert englund (who played a fantastic redneck) kidnap him and try to kill him. he lives, but they crushed his medicine, and now his freaky ass is back to torture and revenge, starting with all the people who persecuted him, and the original detective's daughter, again.
the torture in this film is very vivid, realistic, and gross in a really cool way. the dialog was geeky, and trying to make dee snyder's wussy nerdy voice sound sinister was a big joke, but aside from that, it's a pretty darn cool movie, worth renting at least.

if you like torture, you'll LOVE dee snyder's strangeland.

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User Comments

7/18/07 vomitus greath movie , someone seed it on piratebay.org lol 4 stars
12/03/06 carla daniels it was an awsome movie and u dont have to an IQ (idiots)i think Dee did a great job 5 stars
2/17/06 Galliwertz Unbelievably awful movie. One of the worst I've ever seen, literally. 1 stars
11/23/05 hibbyX Very badly written and directed, a poor effort all around. Total garbage. 1 stars
11/21/05 skippy Didn't start off too bad, but then it plummets into shit infested waters...never to return. 1 stars
11/21/05 Kibble One of the dumbest, pointless, worst movies ever made. Complete garbage. 1 stars
11/05/05 sted-e This is just like SE7EN or SILENCE OF THE LAMBS!!! Only horrible!!! 1 stars
11/02/05 shackle what movie were YOU guys watching?!?!?!?! This is DUNG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 stars
10/29/05 Crumbcake Yeah, you either love it (morons) or hate it (people with an IQ). I agree. 1 stars
10/27/05 Tim not for everyone! you either like it or hate it! A great try! 4 stars
10/26/05 Crumbcake Dive! Dive! Dive! Low-flying turd bombs dropping! Low-flying turd bombs dropping!!!!!!! 1 stars
10/25/05 ShadowFace5 Plays like an FX Original. Horrible acting throughout. 2 stars
10/24/05 Suk-R-Punch Completely and utterly terrible. 1 stars
10/19/05 Gumbo Good start, then gets progressively worse. They should have shown Howdy much less... 1 stars
10/17/05 Crapture Interesting concept, shitty-beyond-any-comprehension execution. All-around B-A-D movie. 1 stars
10/15/05 OodlesofOs One of the DUMBEST movies I've ever seen in my entire life...unintentional comedy. 1 stars
10/15/05 gasp Just complete and total garbage. Poorly-made, sloppily-written, badly acted...total shit. 1 stars
10/13/05 Johnny Cake Crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrapola!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 stars
7/11/05 Brenda Sue Sick and Twisted!!!! Just The Way I lIke It!!!! 5 stars
4/07/05 yossie exploitie and stupid - pathetic 2 stars
3/09/05 Meener SO AWESOME!!!!! 5 stars
2/20/05 Jeff Anderson Not that bad & Snider's direction is really good! The incredibly sexy Cardellini is AWESOME 5 stars
11/04/04 Josh Standlee The music score was rockin', but Robert Englund didn't get much of a part. It was scary. 3 stars
7/26/04 Dave the movie is so good you could watch it over and over 5 stars
7/18/04 Amy Knoll It was a great movie. When is part two coming out? 5 stars
7/04/04 Samuel I want to watch macabre scenes with rape and torture. 5 stars
6/19/04 Kim Helms That movie was awesome and I do like torture! ;) 5 stars
3/07/04 Zach G. Who wants to watch macabre scenes of rape & torture? Thumbs way down. 1 stars
9/10/03 nr AWESOME 5 stars
8/10/03 The Talking Elbow Come on, this movie could have been SO much better... "Seven" is 10x more macabre 3 stars
5/27/03 Kellie Juree Over the Top 5 stars
1/21/03 s harrs Great ! 5 stars
10/29/02 Charles Tatum Certainly interesting 4 stars
9/16/02 Rocky Moore his movie is the only movie that is actually kind of scary and it is pretty real too. great 5 stars
9/10/02 Diego Rodriguez marvelous...... this movie will pin you on TV ... 5 stars
9/07/02 J.L.FORTINO A MUST SEE FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY 5 stars
4/30/02 meatpuppet This movie shows a sub-culture not often looked at, ROCK ON 4 stars
4/11/02 zotteLORRE Dee Snyder definitely deserves a burning meathook up his ass. 1 stars
3/30/02 Rockprincess Dee is my family friend and i am now afraid to kiss him hello 5 stars
2/27/02 Brandon Sandy My back hurt after watching this one! Acting sucked, but ya got to love the gore 4 stars
11/23/01 Bri decent movie, Dee is cool 4 stars
10/07/01 Sierra THIS MOVIE IS THE BEST EVER MADE! 5 stars
6/22/01 tim borders i loved it. very creative 5 stars
4/09/01 David Phillips I didn't think aAI would like the movie, but... as it turned out I thought it was great 4 stars
6/26/00 disappointed Very blah movie, worst movie I've seen all year! 1 stars
2/26/00 facinated viewer very unique movie idea. took alot of balls to put out a movie like that. thumbs up 5 stars
10/09/99 H.O.Horst Exploitation-Bullshit, to much violence, bad story 2 stars
6/28/99 Steve Bashakus Not bad for a first movie, but certainly not good, either. Not scary at all. 2 stars
1/30/99 Stuffy Business Man/Closet S&M Freak that was ME in the theatre! and i was watching you...movie gave me some good ideas. 3 stars
10/19/98 Aint-It-Cool The movie may be eighty minutes long, but he makes it feel like three hours. 1 stars
10/17/98 Mr Showbiz It's not scary, or funny, or fresh, or, really, much of anything at all. 1 stars
10/11/98 Negative Creep Weve all Seen this Movie Before. But still decent attempt for a firsttimer with a lowbudget 3 stars
9/14/98 Chip Taylor LOOKS WEIRD. CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT. 4 stars
IF YOU'VE SEEN THIS FILM, RATE IT!
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USA
  02-Oct-1998 (R)
  DVD: 23-Mar-1999

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Directed by
  John Pieplow

Written by
  Dee Snider

Cast
  Dee Snider
  Kevin Gage
  Elizabeth Peña
  Brett Harrelson
  Robert Englund
  Linda Cardellini



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