A Bouquet for a Kill (2007)

A Bouquet for a Kill (2007)

The new thriller starring Lydie Denier and directed by Lydie Denier. Produced by Michael Huck.
The English language movie is based on the German language Unhappy End! Episode 2 "Du sollst nicht Ehebrechen" starring Jean Bork and Ingrid Littmann. Jean Bork who co-wrote the original script guest stars.
Lydie Denier plays Sarah, a woman who has an affair with a married man. His jealous wife takes Sarah prisoner, ties her up and gags her and threatens to torture and kill Sarah.

Trailers are on www.myvideo.de and on youtube, MrAlGator account.

A Touch of Truth

Lydie Denier did accuse me to be a stalker who did stalk her since 2003 and did threaten to kill her. She told the media and Santa Monica Court I am a crazy fan who is madly in love with her and claimed I pulled a gun on her and that I want to be "together" with her.

She did not tell the truth. She did not tell that in fact I am a producer and we shot A Bouquet for a Kill together.
To show you what really happened I did upload several videos on youtube broadcast, MrAlGator account and the trailers of A Bouquet for a Kill also on www.myvideo.de

I also shot a documentary STALKING LYDIE on the movie we shot together. In the docu I personally read the court papers and show you video material with me and Lydie on the set of A Bouquet for a Kill in Berlin in 2007. (why did Denier shoot with me a movie in 2007 if - according to her - I have stalked her since 2003 ?)

I also gave interviews on A Bouquet for a Kill, there is a trailer also on youtube and an interview on Mike Haberfelner´s B-movie site www.searchmytrash.com

The trailers of A Bouquet for a Kill I did upload show that in fact Lydie and I did work very well together at first.
I loved and adored her as an actress. She was wonderful to work with and we both could have become a team like Laurel & Hardy, Martin & Lewis or Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. We could have go on shooting a new kind of dark thrillers using my concept with beautiful women in those dark stories and Lydie could have brought in her more than 20 years experiecne of Hollywood and glamour while I could have brought in my knowlegde of setting up low budget projects all around the world no matter how difficult it looks at first. Together we could have achieved so much.

But Lydie did not see this. She only saw the opportunity to take my project to a bigger producer without me, take MY concept and use it for her own. It was so stupid. I was willing to share my concepts and my projects with her but she wanted all alone for herself, taking credits for what I have created and pushing me out of my own movie.
There is such a gap between Lydie this marvelous and close to perfect actress and Lydie as a person.
And she did achieve nothing with all those lies. She destroyed our work of months. The work of cast and crew. And her own work. This was in 2007. We could have made 3 more movies in the meantime but Lydie preferred to destroy than to build up. It seems she is only happy if she can destroy the work of other people. She never realized the opportunities we had. If you look at the trailers you can see that Lydie and I were about to shoot something really interesting, dark thrillers featuring attractive women. I did this since many years on a small scale. With Lydie and me together we could have made it bigger, doing thrillers for televison all around the world. It could have worked. But Lydie wasted our time. Instead of concentrating on directing our movie she was busy half of the time to think of ways to get rid of me and to take over the picture.

It´s such a pity. Lydie is one of the most talented and attractive actresses ever. I have absolutely no idea why she is doing all those silly things.
Running to Santa Monica Court and telling Judge Rosenberg I am stalker! What is going on in her mind? SHE KNOWS I have all those material showing me and her together on the set. SHE KNOWS there is a cast and crew who can confirm I did produce A Bouquet for Kill. SHE KNOWS there are all those photos of our shooting showing me and her together on the set and SHE KNOWS I have all the receipts of the shooting, her flights, her hotel stay, her health and travel insurance - all was paid with my credit card. How can she think if she tells media and judge Rosenberg I am a crazy stalker I would not publish this?

So what did she achieve? She made herself ridiculous. Now everyone knows I am not a stalker. Now everyone knows she run away from our set, something no director and actress who takes her job serious would ever do. Now everyone knows she tried to push her producer out of his movie - something no director should do. And now everyone knows she went to Santa Monica Court and did lie to them. She accused me wrongly to be a stalker. And now it´s all over the internet. And this will be there forever and everywhere. No matter how old Lydie will be or whereever she will be, whatever she will do, whenever someone googles her name everyone everywhere will know Lydie Denier is a person who accuses people wrongly to be stalker. Everyone everywhere will know Lydie Denier is a person who does not tell the truth. And everyone everywhere will also know Lydie is not even very good in telling not the truth. Was it worth it?

Lydie told Santa Monica court I want a reconciliation with her.
No, I do not want that. I do not want to see her again and I do not want to be in the same room with her as I consider her a very weird person.

I want my tapes back so I can edit our movie.
I am not in love with the woman Lydie Denier. I do not want a love relationship with her.
I wanted her to be my partner. Like Laurel and Hardy or Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. I did offer her to be my partner. I never asked her to become my "lover".
I wanted to work with her, write, direct and produce movies. She knows that. And she should tell judge Rosenberg the truth. And she should stop to hide behind other people or Santa Monica Court. Lydie is my director and I am her producer. We have a contract and we promised each other to do this project together. This is my business and Lydie´s business. This is NOT the business of Santa Monica Court.

Lyide told Santa Monica Court I hate her. This also is not true. I do not hate Lydie. In fact I never forget what opportunites we had together. I loved working with her. She was - and still is - one of my favorite actresses. As an actress I admire her and always will. I was happy when she agreed working with me, when she came to Germany, when Vonny and I met with her in Beverly Hills discussing our script, when we both were on the EFM, when we worked together on A Bouquet for a Kill in February 2007. One of the happiest moments of my life was when I went with Lydie to the airport after this February shooting. Then it really looked we could achieve something together. In this moment for a short moment we were Laurel & Hardy. I know now there have been two ways we could have gone. And I am convinced if Lydie would have not tried to outsmart me and to push me out of my movie but if she would have finished Bouquet with me the way we had promised this to each other we could have made at least 3 more movies till today.

This is all is lost forever now. It was Lydie´s decision, not mine.
But I and the cast and crew of A Bouquet for Kill did invest time, work and money in this project and that´s why I want my tapes to edit the movie.
I told this before, it is my job as a producer to do this.

Sincerely Yours,
Michael Huck

A New Kind of Terror - Girls !

They are soooo cute!
They are soooo beautiful !!
They are M A N I A C S ! ! !

The Gator Group series The 7 Nightmares Girl, Nightmare Follies and Unhappy End! finally shows women the way they really are: BAD! EVIL !! PSYCHOPATHS !!!
Doing what they do best: Betray, Steal, Hate and Kill !

Superheroines and other Damsels in Distress and Railway Tracks

Superheroines and other Damsels in Distress and Railway Tracks

Maybe you remember the wonderful old cliffhanger serials starring Linda Stirling and Kay Aldrige, captured by evil viallains and placed in deadly perils.
Or Diana Rigg, the british Super-Woman, who did beat up evil guys by the dozen and in return had been bound and gagged by the bad ones, sometimes more than once in one single episode. In "The Gravediggers" episode, Mrs. Peel gets tied up two times and especially the sequence when she is tied to the railway tracks is sensational...

There must be something special about beautiful women getting captured, gagged and tied up to railway tracks as these lovely kind of scenes have become a standard in thriller and horror movies over the years since the old days of silent movie cliffhanger serials.
Especially in the USA and England this kind of entertainment is an improtant part of thriller movies and tv series. Or even comic books.
It´s not that common known that even Wonder Woman, created by William Moulton Marston, involved lots of bondage scenes. Wonder Woman had been held captive by the bad guys almost the whole story, bound, gagged, tortured and only towards the ends always managed to break free and to beat up the evil villains. And of couse, Wonder Woman looked always great in her Damsel in Distress scenes.

There is obviously something quite interesting in the Damsels in Distress scenes. The producers of The Avengers were obviously pretty aware of this kind of strange attraction of having her beautiful heroine tied to the railway tracks and invited reporters and photograpers on the set to take some pictures of the helpless bound and gagged superheroine. This was in the 1960´s.
Today as I write this in 2010 there are all new Harper´s Bazar photos showing beautiful supermodel Claudia Schiffer bound and gagged in a dark basement, menaced by a sinister skeleton. Heidi Klum is handcuffed - just for fun - in a bizarre shooting for her model tv show and British newspapers go crazy because in the
Royal Court Theater in Liverpool former soap star Suzanne Collins in bound and gagged in her underwear in a comedy entitled "A Fistfull of Collars".
This obviously is so important that photos of Ms Collins bound and gagged are all over the net and frontpages. It seems we are on the right track with Unhappy End! and The 7 Nightmares Girl.

So let´s face the fact: this kind of thrill is beloved all over the world. I think there is some kind of attraction involved for everyone, that´s why those shows are so popular all over the world since such a long time. There are those guys who love to see themselves as kind of White Knight in shining armor who - like the debonair and elegant John Steed - come along just in time to save the beautiful Ms Peel. Then there are the other guys - like myself and our Grandmasters John Willie and Marston -who for some strange reason think the villain part is not that bad at all because the villain actually has the pleasure to capture all those beautiful super heroines and keep them bound and gagged. Then there are sure women who see themselves in this kind of role just loving the idea of playing Jeanne D´Arc or Mrs. Peel or Wonder Woman. A German writer, Sina Aline Geissler, some years ago wrote some books and mentioned she loves the idea of being bound and gagged, the idea of being the helpless victim while the villains discuss in which manner to torture their beautiful prisonder.
And not to forget, there are also many women who obviouly also love the idea of being a villainess and seeing anoter woman, more beautiful, at their mercy, helpless bound and gagged. It´s alos interesting to see that some actresses play this kind of scenes over and over again. Like Cameron Diaz who is bound and gagged surprisingly often in her movies. Maureen O´Hara had many such scenes in many differnt movies. Terri Hatcher of course, Lynda Carter, Linda Evans. And many of these actresses have one thing in common: they play these scenes very cool instead of scared what makes them look even more powerful. They certainly realize how beautiful they look in those scenes.
So let´s face the horrible facts: That´s Entertainment!

The Moonlight Orchids (2010)

The Moonlight Orchids (2010)
A ruthless producer, Melvin K. Lee, (Lloyd Kaufman) meets with young, attractive actresses who audition for a part in his new horror movie. They soon learn that Mr. Lee is an honorable man who has no casting couch - but a casting Rolls Royce! Learn the awful truth about producers, Hollywood and making movies.
Lloyd Kaufman, Kim Baldwin, Juliane Wallesteig and the one and only Rolf Eden as Mr. Lee´s driver.

Coming in Summer 2010.

Unhappy End! Remastered

Unhappy End!
This is one of the new A New Kind of Terror PR sheets for the Remastered Unhappy End! series.

How To Shoot Low Budget

Shooting around the World with very little Money
Gator is now around for many years and over the years we shot projects all around the world inlcuding Germany, Austria, USA, Canada, Italy, France, Spain and Brazil, maybe I forgot some places. How do we manage to shoot with the most beautiful actresses and models in strange places like Honolulu, Hollywood, Vancouver, Vienna, Lecce doing all this low budget horror and thriller projects.
First I had some wonderful talent and crews, many of the actresses lik Katja, Barbara, Debby and Anja who are able not only to act but also to produce.

To know how to set up a production is very important. When I first worked for Disney they asked me if I had been in the army, as working for Disney is similar to be in the army. I do not know the US army but compared to German army Disney was really more fun. Anyway there is some truth in it. Big media conglomerates are usually very well organized and have all resources you need to do a proper job. So you have no trouble if you work for a company like Disney.
If you shoot low budget without being part of a multimillion dollar conglomerate things are different. You then have to operate like Robert E. Lee or Rommel with only small cast and crew. You can learn a lot from great army leaders like Hannibal, Ludendorff & Hindenburg, Rommel & Monty and the hilarious Robert E. Lee. And even better: It´s NOT a matter of life and Death (unless you shoot with Lydie Denier or Bette Davis). Movie Making is fun. Keep this always in mind.

I found out several things make my life easier while shooting low budget:

1. like Lloyd Kaufman I prefer to shoot scene after scene like a theater play.
It´s easier for the actors and everyone else and if something happens (an actor
gets sick or has an accident) you are able to re-act

2. I try to be a nice guy on the set. I do not scream or yell. Lubitsch always
treated his cast and crew nice and with respect. Otto Preminger (whom I adore as
as director and producer) acted on the set like an idiot. Cast and crew were
afraid of him. (thinking of Lydie Denier I am not quite sure, if this is really
so clever, what I am witing here)

3. Be always prepared and have only cast and crew on the set you really need.
If you need an actor at 2 pm don´t ask him to be on theset at 6 am

4. I found out you achieve more working 6-8 hours a day than starting at 6am and
shoot till midnight. We usually come to the set at 9.30 am and usually work
till 7 pm or 8 pm. The actreses / actors have their make-up done at 10.00 am
and we start shooting at 11.00 am. Around 2 pm we have lunch. Feed your cast.
It´s not expensive especially if you work with beautiful models and actresses,
I´ve rarely seen them ordering anything else than salad!
I prefer to go to a restaurant what was easy when we were shooting in the Hedler
studios in Berlin Tempelhof. There were plenty of Italian, Chinese and other
restaurants around. However if you are shooting somewhere with no restaurants
close, order at leat some pizza or pasta.
The worst thing you can do is shoot 14 hours a day with no lunch break.

To set up production there are also some books and dvds showing many important things how to do: I can strongly recommend the books and DVDs of Troma´s LLoyd Kaufman:

- Make Your Own Damn Movie and - Direct Your Own Damn Movie

Lloud Kaufman is not only a dedicated filmmaker, boss of one of the most independentproduction comaonies ever, he is also the chairman of the Board of the IFTA (Independent Film & Television Alliance)
The IFTA is a trade association of independent porducers and distributors of motion pictures and televison programming. The organisation, formerly known as the American Film Market Association was established in 1980 to create the now famous and most important trade show, the AFM (American Film Market).