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Released
1998 · FILM

Strangeland

“Wanna come to a party?”

Directed by
John Pieplow
Written by
Dee Snider
Runtime
86 min
HorrorThriller

Synopsis

Captain Howdy, a pierced and tattooed sadist, trolls the Internet for naive teenagers, luring them to his home to torture and defile them. After he kidnaps and tortures the daughter of Detective Mike Gage, he is arrested. Deemed insane, he is sent to an asylum but is released shortly thereafter, appearing to have improved. Gage, however, believes it is only a matter of time before Howdy commits another crime, and he prepares to exact his own form of retribution when the opportunity arises.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jeff KushnerShot by Goran PavicevicScored by Anton SankoDesigned by Debbie Devilla

Box Office

1998 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$631K

Budget$1.1M
Worldwide gross$631K
break-even (2.5×)

Peak 315 theaters

Also known as

  • Dee Snider’s Strangelandde

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