![]() The film’s most amusing flourish is definitely the casting of Robert Englund as a concerned parent of a teenager, a clever bit of meta-irony if there ever was one. Strangeland is no classic, but it’s smarter than it has any right to be director John Pieplow also knows how to work the industrial-gothic atmosphere, and Snider delivers a not-bad performance as the killer (though you kind of keep expecting - and hoping - that he’ll suddenly burst into singing “Burn in Hell,” the Twisted Sister song performed briefly in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure). However, years later, the bad Captain is released from a mental institution‚Ķ and proves to be rather dangerous when he doesn’t take his pills. The father of his latest victim (Linda Cardellini, pre- Scooby-Doo) happens to be a cop (Kevin Gage), who manages to bust the freak and put him behind bars. The scope of this brutal fable (which is oh so much tamer than the “torture porn” films that would be all the rage in the next decade) is rather epic, covering several years in the legacy of Captain Howdy (Snider himself), a body modification fetishist who lures young victims to his dungeon (via the aforementioned Internet chat rooms) and proceeds to do very bad things to them. Language: No.Dee Snider’s Strangeland īefore Rob Zombie started making movies, Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider penned this ahead-of-its-time tale of the dangers of Internet chat rooms. Nudity: Yes, when Catherine walks down the middle of town. Think you know what happened to Lily? A very big clue was given earlier. It's like someone took a short story and tried to make an epic out of it. This was longer than it should have been. ![]() Or was that a setting sun in the evening? Hard to tell as the next scenes were always inside a building Best performances were from Nicole Kidman and from Madison Brown as Lily. Also this director seemed to like a rising sun with red skyline in the morning in the upper half of the screen while the lower half was in darkness. But no, the director just liked the flyover in the canyon. When we first saw it, we thought maybe the children are there or not there but clues are left. We do see a canyon many times as this director seems to be enamored with it. Some say aliens took them and some say they aren't missing, they just ran away from their parents and still others say "the land" took them" whatever that means. Of course the townspeople have their rumors about the family and what happened to the children, but many do turn out to walk the brushes to find them. He gives in to her sexual frustrations and afterwards it's like he just changed his shirt. He never smiles and seems unconcerned about the missing children until much later, and it's like his wife is someone he wishes wasn't there. (Indeed) I don't know if Joseph Fiennes is miscast in here or the director has him act the way he does. (that's really annoying) Yes, Strangerland is a very good title for this movie. When a question is asked, it takes forever for a character to respond. As we get into this, we do see attempts at being friendly and communicative, but still a lot is held back. Everyone in here is a stranger to everyone else. ![]() This is a strange story and we really never know what is going on with all the characters as the director holds too much to his vest. Both Matthew and Nicole sleep in separate bedrooms. The son, Tommy Parker (Nicholas Hamilton), never says much and has a habit of waking up and walking off into the night, but always returned. The mother Catherine Parker (Nicole Kidman) protects her children as best she could, but has difficulty doing it as Matthew seems uninterested but wants to be strict especially with Lily (who dresses provocatively to annoy her father), but gives in to Catherine most of the time. The father, Matthew Parker (Joseph Fiennes), had once beat up a teacher in another town for having sex with his daughter Lily (Madison Brown). Newly arrived to a remote desert town, Catherine (Nicole Kidman) and Matthew (Joseph Fiennes) are tormented by suspicion when their two teenage children mysteriously vanish into a dust storm that leaves only cryptic incriminations and family secrets in its wake. The Parkers, a dysfunctional family in the Australian desert, discover their two teenage children disappear without a trace. ![]()
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