Do you like to surf the web? Then beware my friends for an unseen predator lurks below the glowing electric ocean. Now you fellas don't have to worry to much, but if you’re a young and sweet little teen, or a skanky frat-house spooge- sponge, then be warned as you search the chat rooms looking for a good time and pray you never take up the offer to join the parties of one Carlton Hicks. Oh, you say you've never heard that name before, well then perhaps you know him by his screen name, Captain Howdy.

I have warned you all I can, but if your desire for free booze and drugs and the fact that you have no self esteem or brain in your head and the only way you can fill these empty voids in your soul is with massive amounts of self abuse and dong, then I can only wish you the best of luck.

Written and starring Dee Snider of Twisted Sister fame, Were not going to take it, sing with me, NO were not going to take it anymore! glam-metal hair-bands ruled, comes Strangeland the story of a sadist whom lures young lasses to his lair via the internet to have his depraved and perverted ways with them, hell ain't that why we all got a PC?

I’ll give Strangeland credit on one aspect, it was the first of it's kind to focus on the dark and sometimes truly horrible aspects of the internet chatroom scene. That being said the rest of this flick is pure trash.

Strangeland is an equation of the following: take Hellraiser minus the cenobite add in a pasty-white pierced guy, multiply the plot by a cop searching for his daughter and round to the nearest Clockwork Orange for the completely ripped-off ending. Figure all that out and you got Strangeland.

I couldn't take the first half of this movie as I nearly died listening to Howdy spout his poetic like musings on torture and pain, then you get to watch Alex, oops I mean Howdy be transformed from crazed sadist to his mild mannered meek self, only to be shunned and turned away by local towns people, gee I wonder why. There are also some of the dumbest cops you will ever see on film in this mess, all I will say is watch their truly magnificent way of breaking the case and there is also some of the most stupid victims ever in Strangeland, you think I was joking in my opening paragraph, watch the film.

There is some decent torture and a little blood here and there, but other than that not to much else. I do however think Snider looked ten times creepier as Carleton Hendricks, then he did as the Captain Howdy alter ego, but then I always find skinny, pasty ass, long haired men creepy. I sure am glad you cut your hair, Payne.

If you’re into the whole torture/sadist thing then enjoy, but I couldn't find to much in this one. By the way, Captain Howdy was the name of the spirit Reagan contacted on the Ouija Board in The Exorcist.

3 out of 10