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| Strangeland | |
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| Directed by | John Pieplow |
| Written by | Dee Snider |
| Produced by | Larry Meistrich David L. Bushell Dee Snider |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Goran Pavicevic |
| Edited by | Jeff Kushner Joe Woo, Jr. |
| Music by | Anton Sanko |
Production companies | Shooting Gallery Snider Than Thou Productions |
| Distributed by | Raucous Releasing Artisan Entertainment Behaviour Communications |
Release date |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.1 million[citation needed] |
| Box office | $713,239[1] |
Strangeland is a 1998 American horror film written by Dee Snider and directed by John Pieplow. 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.
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. 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.