Before I started researching Mr. Seymour to come up with relevant questions (yes, I actually do research), I just assumed he was another wannabe director who would go down in history as the guy who made that crappy movie that Debbie Rochon was in. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that he was much, much more. Not only is he the guy who made that crappy movie that Debbie Rochon was in, but he's also a singer/songwriter who's own record label says sounds like Peter Gabriel and Tori Amos. Seriously, Tori Amos. Plus he's made like a dozen other movies, most of which have won awards. Hell, according to the Bare Bones International Film Festival, he's even an Auteur. However, since BthroughZ is about boobs and blood and not awards none of that matters.

Here's his 20 Questions.

1. You've been in a horrible accident and are in a vegetative state. Would you prefer to live on machines or would you want your family to pull the plug?
Pull the plug man. If my brain was still working I’d say leave me alone because I love sleep and I’m sure I’d have awesome dreams. But since I’m a vegetable in this scenario they can cut me up like Will Smith in 7 pounds and give my good parts away. You know like some needy kid could get my alcohol soaked damaged liver. And some lady could get my crappy blurry vision eyes.

2. Do you prefer your women hot and classy or hot and trashy?
Well since my beautiful girlfriend of 6 years is so classy (Broadway actress Nicole Lewis from Hair) I am now a spectator as far as other women go. So because of this I like them totally skanky, slutty, hot and trashy with implants, tattoos, big hair, all that great stuff. Since I am reserved to looking I like to see porno star type attributes in women. Unless there friends of mine then I don’t care what they look like.

3. Name a band/singer/musical act that you'll always stop and listen to when you're flipping through the radio dial? For me it's AC/DC and Merle Haggard.
Creedence Clearwater Revival, David James and the Port Wine Authority

4. Would you kill someone you intensely hated if there was no possible way for you to ever be caught?
No, because I have all this left over Catholic guilt even though I’m not even Catholic anymore. God damn! Once gentle Jesus gets his claws into you, he’s hard to shake off. He’s like Mono.

5. Are you in favor of more or less gun control laws?
I think Clinton had it right when he banned assault weapons. You don’t need an UZI to hunt fish. I do believe the second amendment is important however. I don’t think we should be removing people’s Civil Liberties. I respect someone’s right to own a rifle. I don’t own a gun myself though.

6. Would you allow the amputation of your non-writing hand if you could have sex with any woman you wanted every night for the rest of your life?
Yes, on one condition. Only if I could get a cool robot hand in it’s place. That would suck for me though because my non-writing hand is my strong hand and strong arm. I’m weird like that.

7. Who would win in a fight between Batman and Superman?
Superman would win because the minute he got his hands on Batman he could crush his skull and all his armor until he was a pile of goo. Of course I think Batman is way cooler, I just know that he doesn’t stand a chance. Superman is a fucking alien with super powers. Batman is a spoiled Billionaire with emotional issues.

8. According to your Wikipedia page you're a singer/songwriter. When I hear the phrase singer/songwriter I automatically think of Jim Croce, who was a huge pussy. Do you feel that deep down inside you're a huge pussy?
Well here’s the thing. I released this really dated piano rock album in early 2000’s. One could say it had pussy elements and influences but let me say this: You ask me if I’m a huge pussy? I will simply answer, I made Bikini Bloodbath 1, 2 and 3, god damn it! I completed a horror trilogy and that is the opposite of pussy. By default I am clearly a dick. I must also share my “Dick” status with my co-director Jon Gorman.

9. When Phil Hall got hit in the nuts with the football in Bikini Bloodbath Carwash was he wearing a cup or was he method acting?
I am laughing now. He had protection. We didn’t bring a cup. He ended up using a bowl or something. He has really big balls. America will find that out when Bikini Bloodbath Christmas comes out.

10. Who came up with the idea to name characters in Bikini Bloodbath Carwash after members of GI Joe? I ask because that's frickin' awesome.
Jon Gorman and I get together, get drunk and start writing so I can say that the ideas are equally from us both. I think the first one we came up with was Community College Commander and it spiraled from there.

11. In your opinion, what's the most over hyped movie of all time? Gladiator gets my vote.
I have to disagree with Gladiator because I have watched is recently and it’s still fucking awesome. Ridley Scott is one of the last film giants working at the top of his game. He carries the torch or Kubrick. He is a pioneer of Sci-fi and no one will ever match his work on Blade Runner. That being said Titanic was a huge vagina film for “Vagina People”. Shame on you James Cameron for doing big bloated vagina pictures. James Cameron needs to make a new live action sci-fi film. Modern day filmmakers need a good slap in the face from masters like Scott and Cameron. Otherwise our Sci-fi is doomed to look like bad cartoons with weak plots.

12. When was the last time you started watching a movie you were truly excited to see and finished thinking, "Well, that sucked"?
Terminator Salvation. I have a million gripes about why it is shit but I’ll start with a few. It’s not a time travel film at all. Except for one brief “Terminator on death row” scene we are in the same time period the whole fucking film. T2 had awesome scenes with “future wars” in them. Second, and along the same lines: Everyone has been waiting to see a full blown version of the Terminator soldier wars with hundreds of terminators fighting hundreds of soldiers like in T2. We’ve been waiting over 20 years, got ripped off with T3 and now this film. You never see a full blown terminator soldier battle scene and that’s just fucking stupid. Also, they never address how the early model terminator (you know the big crazy looking terminators with tank treads and machine gun arms) had the dexterity to build newer improved terminator models. They just elude to them evolving. How? Who made the hardware? Other terminators with no arms? It’s sloppy shitty sci-fi. At least give us some crap excuse about how they made humans build them or something.

13. I see that you're already planning Bikini Bloodbath Ghost Town, the sequel to Bikini Bloodbath Christmas, which is the sequel to Bikini Bloodbath Carwash, which is the sequel to Bikini Bloodbath. How long do you think you can continue to beat the dead horse that is the Bikini Bloodbath series? Just curious, because I think I have a weird crush on most of your female cast members.
We're are not beating a dead horse. It’s more like a live child. In that I mean we’re just getting started my friend. We may end up doing Bikini Bloodbath in Space before we do Ghost Town. We plan to do at least 8 of them. Yes the women of BBB are hot. If I weren’t trying to direct a feature in 9 days I’d have time to take in the scenery more.

14. How many hard-boiled eggs do you think you could eat in one sitting?
50, and by 50 I mean 15.

15. I've always viewed 'Gross Point Blank' as the unofficial sequel to 'Say Anything'. You know, Lloyd's love of fighting eventually leads him into the army where he ends up excelling at killing and becomes a professional hit man. Some unknown, yet life changing and emotionally cathartic experience leaves him yearning for the love he found in Diane (now played by the much hotter Minnie Driver) who he left behind out of fear that she would learn of his profession. Does that make sense or have I put way to much thought into this?
I feel the same way. I mean Lloyd was a kick boxer and seems to have a disdain for the modern day rat race. I could buy that he felt lost one day because of a lady and signed up for the military.

16. Dude, you love Krull! I love Krull! Do you agree with me that the scene where Rell the Cyclops dies is one the most heroic and tragic moments ever filmed?
Yes, that must have sucked for Rell. He new resisting his fate would cause him great pain but he did it anyway and helped his friends. I named my penis Rell, it’s only right. Bikini Bloodbath Christmas has a shit ton of Krull references. So fans of Krull will love BBB3.

17. Do you have a problem with how easily Danny Glover killed a Predator seeing as it was so difficult for Arnold to kill one?
No. I think the predator in P2 was a much weaker predator. He definitely was lazy going to the city to find humans to kill. Maybe he was having a bad day or he was really old. As a matter of fact, all of his predator friends were standing around invisible as Danny Glover killed him. Maybe that predator was a real whiny weakling, his friends sure didn’t like nor help him. I mean Christ, they started giving Danny Glover all his stuff after he killed him. Danny Glover is also no weakling. The dude is pretty big. I don’t think Glover could have taken down the Predator from the first film. I think Glover has a “Billy” level predator fighting ability.

18. Would you be happy to work in independent film for the rest of your life?
Yes, I’d just like to make a reasonable living at it though but honestly that’s all I’ve ever wanted.

19. Do you sometimes think that the general public has forgotten that film is escapism and doesn't need a deeper meaning to be fun and entertaining?
I sometimes think that it’s only seen as fun and entertaining and that people have forgotten that films can be artistic and meaningful. Every Hollywood film that comes out is either an existing property, a remake, an adaptation or a film based on childhood nostalgia. I know I make some Schlocky films but three of the seven features that I have directed Everything Moves Alone, Land of College Prophets and London Betty are actually very personal to me and I believe they hold a deeper value then the others films I’ve done. I get sad when I see films like Transformers that are a brainless mess of CGI and crane shots. It worries me that Indie filmmakers are in a losing battle against films that are like carnival rides VS films that are experiences or worlds to be discovered. The Bikini Bloodbath films are dumb, the dumbest perhaps and I would never argue against that. They are however all an homage to 70’s and 80’s horror films. So even if these films that are bad on purpose at least they reference things I still hold to be important. I mean besides Drag Me To Hell, how shitty and pointless have horror films been in the last 5 years. OK yes including Bikini Bloodbath. Just because I’m part of the problem doesn’t mean I’m wrong.

20. From the IMDB message board: "This guys like a Bruce Willis Russell Crow mix". How does that make you feel?
It makes me feel like that is obviously one of my friends or family being either nice or sarcastic towards me. Besides everyone knows I look exactly like Donal Logue from the “Tao of Steve”. I can’t fucking shake it. I just got a review for my new film London Betty and filmsnobbery.com says that exactly. I don’t know how I feel about being the “poor man’s Donal Logue”.

In closing I’d like to invite everyone to see the New York Premiere of London Betty starring Broadway actress Nicole Lewis (Tony winning Hair, and Rent) , Daniel Von Bargen (Super Troopers Seinfeld) and narrated by Clint Howard. It’s playing as part of the New York New filmmaker Summer Series 2009, on September 2nd at 9:30pm at the Film Anthology Archives in Manhattan. If you like the people involved with the Bikini films and the sense of humor I’m sure you’ll dig London Betty. Thanks for taking the time to talk with me!!

More info here. http://newfilmmakers.com/calendar/090902.htm