Strangeland

Strangeland is an American horror film released in 1998. The film was directed by John Pieplow and written by Dee Snider. The film focuses on the body modification underground culture's rituals. The place is Helverton, Colorado, a town of about 350,000 people. Fifteen-year-old Genevieve Gage and her best friend Tiana Moore are typical high school students who spend their idle time surfing the Internet and sending messages to strangers via chat rooms. Upon "meeting" 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. As it turns out, Captain Howdy has lured them into a darkness from which there may be no escape. What Captain Howdy doesn't know is that Genevieve's father is local cop Mike Gage , whose wife is named Toni . When neither Genevieve nor Tiana has returned home by the next morning, Toni alerts Mike. With the assistance of a younger cop named Steve Christian , Gage begins searching for Genevieve and Tiana. The case takes an unexpected turn when Tiana's car is pulled out of a lake.
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