Review – Strangeland

Who would have thought that Dee Snyder was still alive all these years after the heyday of Twisted Sister (if in fact the group that “ain’t gonna take it” can accurately be said to have had a heyday). Apparently he hasn’t grown up much in the interim; this gruesome little horror picture has all the emotional maturity of a heavy metal video. In addition to picking up screenwriting credit, Snyder also plays the villain, a chat room lurker who has apparently seen Bizarre Rituals a time or two too many. The film does a fairly good job of exploiting “modern primitive” piercing and bondage kink for some cheap thrills, but other than that it’s pretty much just one horror movie cliché after another. Mildly amusing