![]() Mike discovers that Captain Howdy is into "body art," including significant tattooing, piercing, branding, and scarification. The case takes an unexpected turn when Tiana's car is pulled out of a lake with Tiana's tortured body inside and no sign of Genevieve. With the assistance of a younger cop named Steve Christian, Gage begins searching for Genevieve and Tiana. When neither Genevieve nor Tiana returns home by the next morning, Genevieve's mother, Toni, alerts her husband, local cop Mike Gage. After chatting with another apparent student who goes by the screen name of "Captain Howdy," Genevieve and Tiana decide to attend a party at Captain Howdy's house, which is a trap. Accordingly, a large amount of dialogue of the film's villain (concerning his personal philosophy) are paraphrases or direct quotations of Fakir Musafar, the father of the Modern Primitive movement.įifteen-year-old Genevieve Gage and her best friend Tiana Moore are typical high school students in Helverton, Colorado who spend their idle time chatting with strangers in chat rooms. The film has a strong emphasis on the Modern Primitive subculture and its ethos of spiritual transcendence through painful rites, showing several such different practices therein. The film centers around a police detective trying to save his city, as well as his daughter, from an online predator who enjoys bringing "enlightenment" through ritual pain. Language: No.Strangeland is a 1998 American horror film written by Dee Snider and directed by John Pieplow. 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). The Parkers, a dysfunctional family in the Australian desert, discover their two teenage children disappear without a trace.
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