‘Strangeland’ at 25: How Dee Snider Wasted No Time Making Us Terrified of the Internet in 1998

Strangeland was one of those random bubblecase VHS horror rentals from the local video store that made you feel like you’d won the lottery. An absolute blind rental that ended up blowing your mind and making you feel like you knew something no-one else was aware of. It had it all. Scares, a kick ass metal […]

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Beyond Elm Street: 8 Great Robert Englund Roles That Aren’t Freddy Krueger

Happiest of birthdays to Robert Englund, and Happy #RobertEnglundDay! Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story is now on SCREAMBOX, coinciding with the horror mainstay’s 76th birthday. The documentary was shot over the course of two years, highlighting the life and career of the classically trained actor and director. Featuring interviews with Robert Englund and his wife Nancy, […]

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‘Strangeland’ Creators Announce Kickstarter for Survival Horror RPG ‘Hibernaculum’ [Trailer]

After the surreal adventure game Strangeland, developer Wormwood Studios are back at it again with a new Kickstarter for Hibernaculum, a Survival Horror RPG with an art style that draws from the biomechanical  leanings of H.R. Giger, though not as outright as Scorn. As you might expect, the campaign has already been a success, drawing […]

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Six Times Rock Artists Collided With Horror Behind the Camera

Horror movies and rock music are a match made in Hell. The two outcasts have been tied together for decades for their showmanship, energy, and revelry in darker themes and imagery. Both offer a sense of escapism, too. It’s only fitting that they often overlap, with rock artists crossing over into horror on screen. Sometimes, […]

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Dee Snider Directing a New Horror Movie This Year!

It was back in 1998 that rock legend Dee Snider wrote and starred in the horror movie Strangeland, which has become something of a cult hit here in the horror world. Snider played villain Captain Howdy in the John Pieplow-directed horror movie, a sadist specializing in body modification rituals who lures his teenage victims through […]

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The Foo Fighters and Ten Other Notable Rock Musicians Who Appeared in Horror Movies

New release Studio 666 sees the Foo Fighters attempting to complete their tenth album when frontman Dave Grohl falls under the sway of a demonic hymn. Bloodshed ensues. It’s the latest entry in an enduring history of horror movies to feature rock stars; few things complement each other as well as horror and rock music. They’re a […]

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‘Strangeland: Disciple’ – Dee Snider Updates on the Planned Return of Captain Howdy [Phantom Limbs]

phantom limb /ˈfan(t)əm’lim/ n. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated. 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 […]

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