He’s institutionalized, but he is released the way they released the guy who shot Reagan, if you remember. It does still start with a very gruesome autopsy, but needless to say he’s not dead. “So many years have gone by that I went back and rewrote it as in real time. How would the story be affected by that passage of time? This would have opened the story that was intended to be filmed not long after the release of the first film, sure. That’s a mistake! He thought maybe he could control him. Things happened, he was institutionalized, and he was broken out by a collector who wanted to add Captain Howdy to his collection of ‘oddities’. “It was very brutal, very gruesome, and it went haywire from there. “ It literally started with the autopsy on Captain Howdy’s body. “We took the original Halloween format of picking up where the last one left off,” he reveals. Still, he does offer some tantalizing tidbits on where the sequel’s story would take its villain. Nevertheless, Snider insists that we will see Captain Howdy again some day, hence his reticence at revealing too much of the story.
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A 2007 comic book prequel titled Strangeland: Seven Sins, penned by Snider’s son Jesse, stoked interest in the character even more, though that series would go unfinished when publisher Fangoria Comics unexpectedly went under after the release of its first issue.ĭee Snider as Captain Howdy in ‘Strangeland’ (1998) Every few years, it seems as though the possibility of Disciple getting made would be discussed, with serious attempts made in 20 convincing fans that we might actually see the long-awaited follow-up come to fruition. Indeed, rumors of a sequel go back all the way to the time of the first film’s release. ‘Cause right now, I’ve just had so many false starts with it.”
I’m really hoping that’s going to get me back in the door to somehow get Strangeland made.
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I’ve currently got 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. “The story is so rich that I don’t want to give it away. Snider begins, noting his reluctance at revealing too much of a tale that he yet plans to make some day. “ You know, part of me still hopes that it’s going to happen,” Mr. Snider, who discusses where the sequel would have taken Captain Howdy, why it hasn’t yet happened, and whether we may yet see Captain Howdy’s exploits continue on some day.
The film ends with a vicious battle between Gage and Captain Howdy, which culminates with the cop setting the murderer alight and watching him burn. Hendricks is brought down, institutionalized, medicated and eventually released, before a lynch mob enacts a brutal retribution which reawakens Captain Howdy and sets him onto a collision course with Mike Gage ( Heat’s Kevin Gage), a vengeful cop whose daughter had been victimized by Hendricks during his prior reign of terror. That film starred Snider as Carleton Hendricks, aka “Captain Howdy”, a sadistic and heavily pierced/tattooed modern primitive who uses nascent social media (namely, chat rooms) to lure victims into his web before brutally torturing them. With this installment, we’re delving into Strangeland: Disciple, the planned but as-yet-unrealized sequel to 1998’s Strangeland, penned by metal legend Dee Snider and directed by John Pieplow. Here, we will be chatting with the creators of these unmade extremities to gain their unique insight into these follow-ups that never were, with the discussions standing as hopefully illuminating but undoubtedly painful reminders of what might have been.
Welcome to Phantom Limbs, a recurring feature which will take a look at intended yet unproduced horror sequels and remakes – extensions to genre films we love, appendages to horror franchises that we adore – that were sadly lopped off before making it beyond the planning stages. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated.
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