Nightmare Follies - Episode 1: Stars Will Perish

starring Maja Loom and Micaela Schaefer

written by Maja Loom, Micaela Schaefer and Michael Huck

based on the story by Brian Sands

Produced & Directed by Michael Huck

Nightmare Follies is a new Gator Series, a little bit more darker

than the Unhappy End! series. Thriller and Horror themes.

The first episode Stars Will Perish  a dark thriller about a crazy

young actress who kidnapps the star of a musical to take over

her part is shot in Berlin.

Micaela Schaefer plays a young, inexperienced actress

who dreams to be a star but she is only the understudy

of the shows star (Maja Loom), a musical ver-

sion of Troj.

The understudy lures the star to an audition for a movie

and kidnaps her, holding her prisoner in a dark, un-

canny cellar while she leaves to take over her part.

But then everything goes wrong.

Micaela Schaefer gives a wonderful performance of the frustrated

understudy who is jealous and angry to watch another girl playing

the starring part while producers and directors ignore her.

Her understudy is both vulnerable and kind of dangerous and

sadistic when she finally has the star of the show at her mercy.

Maja Loomwas supposed to play the part of the bad girl,

but finally played the victim. Looking back I think we took the

right decision.

Micalea was great playing the bad part with her wonderful clear

voice and playing her part a little bit kind of crazy and brutal

while Maja found a great way to play the showstar who finds

herself in a nightmare being held in that dungeon and being

tortured by that crazy and jealous understudy. Even tied up

she makes her understudy still feel inferiour and - when not

gagged - even makes fun of her understudy´s incompetence

and lack of talent. In the last scene when Maya beats up her

kidnapper she herself makes it look very kind of sadistic having

much fun breaking the bad girl every bone.

Playing the lead in thriller movie

is kind of horror.

Maja and Micaela are close to

perfect playing, acting and re-

acting with their eyes.

It´s always wonderful to have

actresses who know how to P L A Y

a part than rather to only say their

lines.