Dee snider strangeland medicine8/31/2023 ![]() Sometimes people are being modified against their will, and sometimes it’s what they want for better or worse, but no matter what, the modifications are always so extreme as to not be something that professional body modification artists or medical professionals can or would legally or ethically do. Think or movies like Strangeland, Tusk, Repo! The Genetic Opera, or American Mary for good examples of the subgenre. ![]() However, in order to qualify as horror, the modding has to be a bit more extreme than all that, or not of the modified’s own free will. Think ear pointing, body piercings, implants, and the like. So, let’s start with body modification – this covers the territory of body modifications that might involve piercing or even be surgical in nature. This lesson will cover intentional body modification and medical body horror – so strap in folks, cuz shit’s gonna get weird. No? How about The Body Horror Learning Annex? Is that better? Ugh, whatever. Standard horror movie score is slightly improved upon by the inclusion of Goth-influenced heavy metal, including a Snider original over the end credits, an element that is likely to be the only thing Twisted Sister fans will enjoy.Welcome back to the International School of Body Horror – which is what I’m calling this for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Otherwise, tech credits are straight-to-video sloppy, with the editing particularly loose and imprecise. Yugoslavian lenser Goran Pavicevic does a solid, if not particularly imaginative, job of shooting the gruesome torture. Snider is also literally kept in the dark for first half of the film, a particularly strange choice considering he reps the only would-be B.O. Snider tries hard, but his constant sneering and muscle-flexing are more cliched than frightening, and his thick Long Island accent more suited for a sports-talk DJ than an emissary of evil. The clumsy dialogue, ridiculous plot and slow-motion direction defeat the actors, with talented indie actress Elizabeth Pena seeming particularly lost playing Gage’s long-suffering wife. Its half-hearted attempts at suspense sequences are borrowed from “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Seven,” and allow the audience to stay at least 10 steps ahead of the dimwitted detectives. It is hard to say which is the film’s biggest crime: not being scary or not being funny. Pic ends indecisively: It’s unclear whether Howdy is dead or kept alive for a sequel that no one will ever ask for. Howdy quickly extracts revenge on the would-be vigilantes, then re-kidnaps the detective’s daughter, leading to another limp face-off between Howdy and Gage. ![]() The hanging doesn’t kill him, and somehow the benign-looking Carleton Hendricks has a serial-killer makeover, compete with the facial tattoos, piercings and hairdo. It’s left open as to whether Howdy, properly medicated, is truly reformed, but it doesn’t matter: Within hours of his return home, he’s hanged from a tree by an angry mob led by a redneck (Robert Englund, trading in his Freddy Krueger claws for a beer bottle). Unaccountably, the child-murdering Howdy, having traded in his bright-red dreadlocks for an Ichabod Crane-style ponytail, is released from the institution in less then four years. Despite his ineptitude, Gage finds the culprit and his captive daughter in the film’s first 45 minutes, resulting in Howdy being hauled off to a loony bin. Howdy, make a date and, before you can sing a line of “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” one of the girls (Linda Cardellini) is strung up by her wrists with her lips sown shut.Īny potential is quickly doused when story switches gears and becomes a badly staged police procedural documenting the bumbling work of detectives Christian (Brett Harrelson) and Gage (Kevin Gage), the latter of whom just happens to be the captive girl’s father. Initial five minutes provide the only real scares: Two young girls innocently flirt in an Internet chat-room with someone named Capt.
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