Dee Snider wrote and starred in the 1998 cult horror classic “Strangeland,” The film centers around a police detective trying to save his city and his daughter from an online predator who enjoys bringing “enlightenment” through ritual pain. Snider starred as the film’s villain, Captain Howdy, and he has long wanted to either do a sequel to the film or dip his toes back into the horror world.
Recently, the Twisted Sister frontman revealed he will soon be at work on a new scary movie project. “Wanna talk about a major distraction?” he wrote on Twitter. “My next scary movie (I wrote & I’m directing) is green lit & starts pre-production in 4 weeks! In between I’ve got 3-week pre-planned vacation (two years ago before covid, cancelled twice). When I get home, I leave next day! Yes/Yikes!” Snider stated recently that he “currently [had] a movie called ‘My Enemy’s Enemy’ that is in development with the people who produced the Halloween films, Malek Akkad, and I’m going to be directing that in the spring.”
While “Strangeland” wasn’t received very well in theaters upon its release, it has come to develop a cult following. The soundtrack was also loaded with heavy hitters in the rock/metal world including Twisted Sister, Megadeth, Pantera, Anthrax, Marilyn Manson, Kid Rock w/Eminem, System of a Down and Coal Chamber.
Snider told Lollipop magazine that the MPAA made him add a new warning to “Strangeland.” “This film is rated R,” Snider said of the warning. “Contains extreme violence, nudity, profane language (and) they made us add, ‘and scenes of torture.’ No movie’s ever had that put on it before. I was pretty proud of that.” Snider also said that he wanted Captain Howdy to be the new Freddy Krueger. “It’s very dark, like Seven meets Nightmare On Elm Street, but not as upbeat,” he told the AV Club. “The Nightmare On Elm Street part is that it’s a very franchisable character… I didn’t want a heroic villain, one that people are cheering for, where they’re waiting for him to say the witty line, or whatever.”
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