Beyond the five-minute appeal of the single, Twisted Sister failed to sustain their shock theatrics into any substantial musical content and the group disbanded in 1987. Twisted Sister had a big hit with the single We’re Not Going to Take It Anymore (1984) and incurred the wrath of much parental outrage, due to Dee Snider’s garishly over-the-top crossdressing antics and ghastly makeup.
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(this movie is available for Unbox rental at Amazon - $2.In the 1980s, Dee Snider was the lead singer with the heavy metal band Twisted Sister. I caught this one on IFC, by the way, so if you get that channel, and you’re intrigued, you might watch for it to roll around again. It’s definitely not going to become a “cult favorite” of MINE, but I can see why fans of Snider might really like it. She’s so awesome.Īnyway, this movie is pretty watchable. Even better, though, was getting to see Linda Cardellini (from Freaks & Geeks and ER), which I didn’t expect - I didn’t realize she was in this. Way more fun than your more traditional “don’t do drugs” PSA from old rock stars. He said he was inspired to write this movie after hearing news reports about young women suckered in on chat rooms by pedophiles and sadists and stuff, and I guess that makes this film sort of his own personal public service announcement. But overall, it’s fairly successfully creepy, and I was pretty impressed by Dee Snider, all silliness considered.
There’s really a LOT of silly stuff in this movie, including the fact that four years after Carleton gets out, the chat room he used to hang out in still looks EXACTLY the same (um, like, no.). But alas, Carleton’s not dead, and what’s worse, the Christians drove over his medication, and it only takes him about 90 minutes without his pills to go totally whacko again (yeah, that part made no sense to me either). Thinking they’ve successfully hanged him (oh, the irony of this scene, incidentally - methinks Dee Snider has taken a lot of crap from Christian organizations in his time.), they head off into the night. He’s sentenced to a mental institution, and four years later, is released, “cured.” But his first night back home, a group of whackos from the “Christians Against Moral Decay” organization first kidnap and then lynch him. He’s sent to prison for a year while he stands trial, but is eventually found not guilty due to insanity. When one of the teenage girls has a heart attack from the stress of the pain, though, things start to get out of control, and Carleton is quickly found and arrested. They foolishly show up, and he ends up tying them up and then torturing them for days on end (Carleton believes that in order to be fulfilled, you have to experience pain through piercings, brandings, and some other extremely bizarre Saw-like torture devices - he’s not actually out to kill his victims, just to enlighten them). I know! I was surprised too! Dee plays a majorly-tattooed and seriously-pierced crazy guy named Carleton Hendricks who goes by the chat room handle of “Captain Howdy.” He sits around in the evenings chatting with teenage girls online and once he’s got them kind of suckered in, he invites them to a party at his house. I mean, how am I expected NOT to watch a movie written by and starring the frontman of Twisted Sister, I ask you?Īs it turns out, this movie isn’t really all that bad. And yet, at the same time, it absolutely must be seen. But seriously, DEE SNIDER? Wrote and starred in a horror movie? That just can’t be good. I’ve heard about it several times over the years - it’s sort of a cult movie, I gather. I fully, FULLY, expected this movie to totally suck.
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