You have recently launched your new film-series
The 7 Nightmares Girl. What can you tell us about that series?
The 7 Nightmares Girl
is a kind of serial, with much more horror and terror
elements than we had in the Unhappy End series. Nightmares is much darker,
but again of course with very beautiful actresses.
Carolin Hasselman and
Wenke Baumgart
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Maja Loom and
Barbara Ungerhofer
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The
first episode of the series ends with the words to be continued.
Will part 2 be a direct continuation of
part 1? Yes,
episode 2 will be a direct continuation of part 1, just like the old
Republic-serials [Republic
history - click here].
Maja Loom
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Both
The 7 Nightmares Girl
and your long-running Unhappy End-series are
(mostly) about beautiful women being tied up. What are the main
differences between the two series?
First the story is more complicated, more action, more terror situations and more deadly perils for more beautiful leading
ladies
While in the
Unhappy End-series the violence as such is rather restrained, you
seem to push the envelope a bit in
The 7 Nightmares Girl. How far
do you intend to go in terms of gore and explicit violence in your new
series?
While
Unhappy End was
often funny,
The 7 Nightmares Girl
will
have more violence, but acually most of the violence will not be shown
directly. There will not be much gore or splatter elements, most of the
splatter scenes will only take place in the brains of the audience. I still
prefer beautiful shots of beautiful women in deadly perils.
Lloyd Kaufman and
Micaela Schaefer |
In an episode of
The 7 Nightmares Girl, Troma-boss
and independent horror legend Lloyd Kaufman has a guest spot. What can you
tell us about his role, how was it working with him, and how did you get
him to appear in your film in the first place?
I knew some of Mr Kaufman's movies and have learned a lot
from his book Make your own Damn Movie, which is an excellent
book on low budget filmmaking. There is also a Troma 5 DVD Box
about making your own damn movie. I have met Mr Kaufman some years
ago in Los Angeles where he did appear in a bookstore at Sunset Blvd
talking about his movies, and later I met him at a filmfestival. We
talked a couple of times and he was so kind to accept playing a guest
killer part in our new series.
He is a very nice person, a perfect actor who knows exactly how
everything looks onscreen. He is one of the nicest persons we ever
worked with and I hope we can do some other project with him. In
Nightmares Girl he plays the father of a kidnapped actress who is forced
by the kidnapper to kill a young woman to safe his daughter's life.
Barbara Ungerhofer |
A few
words about the other actresses (and actors?) involved in
The 7 Nightmares Girl? Wenke Baumgart and Carolin Hasselmann
you know from part
one. In episode two there are
Maja Loom and Micaela
Schäfer who were both already in the Last Laugh-movie.
Even in Unhappy End
we never had so many so beautiful actresses in one
single project. Also new in episode 2 is Barbara Ungerhofer, a very gifted
young actress from Vienna. She recently worked with Lloyd on a music
video, so they knew each other already - although they did not share
scenes in 7
Nightmares Girl. With
The 7 Nightmares Girl
in the making, has the Unhappy End-series come to an end?
No, there will be more Unhappy End, but actually a little bit different.
There will be longer episodes, that is 60 to 90 minutes, so actually more
Unhappy End-movies than short episodes. We have new cameras and post
production equipment and we've learned a lot, so we will do bigger
projects now.
Websites,
blogs, etc where one can learn about your films?
www.flickr.com/photos/MichaelHuck
www.gatorgroup.de
Suspense |
On your flickr-site
there are several very promising photos in the Suspense-folder.
What can you tell us about that project of yours and is Suspense a
film or series that will see the light of day any time soon?
I always wanted to do a series like The Avengers with spies
but we never did it so far, maybe some day...
Suspense |
Any future projects not mentioned yet you'd like to talk about
I'd like to do something like the old silent movie-serials,
with an evil phantom or something like that.
In terms of bondage, you said in our last interview that classic
movie serials were a major inspiration of yours. Any particular serials
you'd like to point out? Jesse James Rides Again
(1947, Fred C.Brannon, Thomas Carr), The
Purple Monster Strikes (1945, Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C.Brannon), Tiger
Woman (1944, Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell), Perils of
Nyoka (1942, William Witney [William
Witney bio - click here]), Haunted Harbor (1944,
Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell),
Manhunt of Mystery Island (1944, Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace
Grissell, Yakima Canutt). TV series: Wonder
Woman, The Avengers. With
The 7 Nightmares Girl
going into a slightly more violent direction than your previous films,
were you at all influenced by any particular slasher films or survival
movies?
Lloyd Kaufman and
Micaela Schaefer |
I've watched some, the Saw-series is very well done and I
particulary loved Hostel 2 - actually not because of the slasher and
splatter elements but because the stories are so good. Actually I still
do not like movies with blood and gore all over, I think it's
disgusting.
In
The 7 Nightmares Girl
there is one scene: Llyod Kaufman's
character is forced to cut off his thumb. The camera focuses on
the scissors and Lloyd's thumb, then when he cuts it off, camera is
already on his face, you do not see one drip of blood and you do not see
the cut-off thumb, all you see is Lloyd's face in pain and he screams.
That's enough and it's a horrible scene even WITHOUT any blood or
cut off body parts shown. I still like the beautiful pictures of
beautiful women like Linda Stirling or Micaela Schäfer helplessly
tied up and gagged facing a deadly peril. I like this kind of suspense
so much more than gore and splatter. So actually the story in
The 7 Nightmares Girl
is much more violent than the Unhappy End-stories, but
actually we are not going beyond a certain point, it all happens in your
mind, not onscreen. I've wached a lot of recent made violent slasher and survival movies, one
so stupid I
left the theater after about one hour. However there are some very
interesting movies like Wolfgang Büld's Twisted Sisters a
kind of romantic slasher movie and Wrong Turn with a
great Eliza Dushku.
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Funny Games is a strange movie and I did not like it. The
surprise ending is just not surprising at all and actually I
would have liked to learn more about the two bad guys - who are they, why
are they acting like that? Maybe there will be a part 2, but actually it
looked more like a ZDF
Freitagskrimi than a thriller.
Timber Falls actually has a good storyline but then there is one very stupid
scene when the girl, AFTER HAVING BEEN MENACED BY SOME BAD GUYS, makes
her boyfriend throw away the bullets of his gun!!! That's so
stupid you want to scream.
Other influences on The 7 Nightmares Girl?
Carolin Hasselmann - it was some of her ideas which got us in that more
violent direction.
Anything
else you are just dying to mention that I've compeltely forgotten to ask? I
always wonder if I'm the only one who is aware of the fact that our world
is run by totally corrupt politicans and managers. I mean our whole
system of social security is destroyed by greedy VAMPIRES who are
about to destroy our country, Europe and probably the whole world. People
like our representatives and managers are destroying our
country and noone seems to care. Now they pay lousy bankers with taxpayers'
money, it's so unbelievable! This is horror in real life. There are
VAMPIRES all around us, and they are not sucking blood anymore, they go for
money now, our money. Thanks
for the interview!
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