There is rhyme and reason, the way people do things in the body mod community. I didn't want to just throw a bunch of metal in a face. He'd say, "Read this book, watch this video, check out this website." He was paid to be the consultant and help design the piercings and brandings for authenticity. On these long drives between gigs, we'd just talk for hours. He's also hooked deep into the S/M and fetish world and was kind enough to share much of that with me. He's a premiere brander and does scarification. He has his own shop called Modern American Body Arts in Brooklyn. I met him when I was researching the film. Keith was in the band Carnivore, which was Pete Steele's first band of note. Spent time with a great piercer named Keith Alexander, who is in the S.M.F. Interviewed by Michael McCarthy, Dee Snider said this of how he researched the body modification and ritual aspect of the film: Piercing "design" for the movie was done by New York-based body modification artist (at the time) Keith Alexander who also toured with Dee Snider in SMF. Most responded: "Get over it it's just a movie". This movie, shot for $2 million (and losing well over half of that investment) was met with extremely mixed reviews (largely panned, although Dee's audio commentary on the DVD is great), especially from the professional piercing community, some of whom felt that it degraded what they do and encouraged the mainstream public to think of people in this community as psychopaths (echoing criticism faced by Silence of the Lambs). To simplify, Strangeland (1998, written by and starring Dee Snider and directed by John Pieplow) is a movie about a serial killer ("CaptHowdy," named after the demon in The Exorcist) who meets his victims via an AOL-like chat service and then tortures them using rituals including piercing, suspension, and so on. There is no pain, just sensation: you observe the body, experiencing the sensation, surrender to the experience, and feel the endorphin rush as the surgical steel slices through."- CaptHowdy "The act of slow piercing is a transcendent spiritual event.
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