Biography
Tom Seymour is best known for the New York Times-celebrated VHS Massacre documentaries (NBC/Universal Peacock). Across his career, he has earned over 90 independent film awards, including five Telly Awards, a National Board of Review student nomination, and shared Emmy and YouTube Award nominations as part of the Black20 Studios team (net_work). His films have screened at Canadian Screen Award qualifying festivals and British Independent Film Award qualifying festivals such as Spirit of Independence and Northwest Film Fest, with major wins at Melbourne Underground, San Francisco IndieFest’s AHITH, Chicago Horror, Vancouver Horror Show, Arizona Underground, Tokyo Horror, WorldFest Houston and many more. In addition Tom's films have screened at top genre festivals such as Cine-Excess, Torino Underground, Boston Underground and NH Docs at Yale University. In 2025 Video Dreams: A VHS Massacre Story was praised by top Independent film festival Dances with Films calling it "profound". Seymour’s feature film career began at the tail end of the 1990s independent film movement while he was working at CBS News. He produced and acted in John Krasinski’s first feature (A New Wave), directed A…
Movies & TV Shows
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VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media (2016) — Self
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Bikini Bloodbath: Christmas (2009) — Prince Colwyn
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Being Michael Madsen (2007) — Phil
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Fake (2011) — Art Guard #2
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The Land of College Prophets (2005) — Rye
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VHS Massacre Too (2020) — Self
- Thrill Kill Jack in Hale Manor (1998) — Hale
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American Expendables: The Films of North American Pictures (2024) — Self
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Everything Moves Alone (2001) — Anderson
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Rudyard Kipling's Mark of the Beast (2012) — Tom
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London Betty (2009) — Billy
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Exorcism of Fleete Marish (2023) — Tom
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Video Dreams: A VHS Massacre Story (2025) — Narrator
Directed
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VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media (2016) — Director
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Bikini Bloodbath: Car Wash (2008) — Director
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Bikini Bloodbath: Christmas (2009) — Director
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Bikini Bloodbath (2006) — Director
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The Land of College Prophets (2005) — Director
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VHS Massacre Too (2020) — Director
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American Expendables: The Films of North American Pictures (2024) — Director
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Rudyard Kipling's Mark of the Beast (2012) — Director
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Daddy's Little Judge (2008) — Director
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London Betty (2009) — Director
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Macleod: There Can Be Only One — Director
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Exorcism of Fleete Marish (2023) — Director
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Video Dreams: A VHS Massacre Story (2025) — Director