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Dee Snider Announces Possibility of Strangeland 2
With one foot firmly planted in the horror community and the other long taking up roots in the fetish community, Dee Snider’s Strangeland has always been a favorite film of mine. In the 1998 classic Snider masterfully wove the dark and taboo world of adult pleasures with the morbid and grotesque mind of a sexual sadist and fetish aficionado who took his love of the lifestyle a bit too far. It was graphic, it was disturbing, it was beautiful! So when the man himself took to his FaceBook account this past weekend to announce he has been working on the long awaited sequel to the cult classic, I was elated to say the least.
Strangeland 2 is the sequel many of us have been waiting nearly twenty years for, and it has had many, many, false starts. At one time it felt like every few months we would hear something hopeful about the new script or a working title, only to have it yanked away weeks later. Fans would flood his weekly radio show and horror convention panels with questions about the progress of our favorite misguided fetishist. Would Carlton Hendricks, aka Captain Howdy, be making a return? For many of us Strangeland 2 has been the proverbial carrot on a stick that has dangled just out of grasp for many painful years.
In the wake of the retirement of his heavy metal band, Twisted Sister, Dee has been a very busy boy! Among the long awaited announcement of Strangeland 2 he also announced his other projects, including; a new book, a new movie, another musical, and his new solo album ‘We Are the Ones.’ He will also be visiting some upcoming horror conventions in celebration of the two decade mark Strangeland! Clearly this man does not know the meaning of the word “vacation” as we see the beautiful Caribbean ocean reflecting in his sunglasses, but the gears turning in his brain as he ticks off project after project on his list.
While Snider seems hopeful in the resurgence of the sequel, he also reminds us that he has said very similar words before. The writer, director, and star of the original is very careful not to give us false hope in the new project, but there seems to be a new life to his words. Or maybe that’s just a fangirl’s dream… Either way, he told us from the beach “Feeling like this is gonna happen this time around…” he then quickly follows it up with “…I’ve also said that before, so don’t hold me to this.”
Will this announcement be followed up with a Captain Howdy progress report? We can only hope! Either way Dee Snider fans are a very dedicated bunch, and we will always be waiting for that carrot to lower just enough for us to grab it!
Here is the sequel synopsis from 2010:
One year after Carleton Hendricks, aka Captain Howdy’s (Dee Snider), sadistic rampage, much more than the physical scars the schizophrenic, sexual sadist gave his victims are left behind. Their lives destroyed by emotional torment and the media frenzy surrounding the crimes, Detective Mike Gage; his daughter, Genevieve; and vigilante Jackson Roth (Robert Englund) each have their crosses to bear. But when the badly burned and mentally broken Carlton Hendricks is taken from a state-run mental hospital and off his medication by billionaire media mogul Morgan LaForce, leader of the body modification/fetish haven called “The Torture Garden,” the door swings wide open for each of Captain Howdy’s victims to find closure… and retribution.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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