Acting
Thomas Edward Seymour
EN cinema · 20 credits
Born
2 January 1977 (age 49)
Birthplace
New Britain, Connecticut, USA
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, Kevin Smith's Smodcastle 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 Aubrey Plaza in one of her earliest digital shorts (Daddy’s Little Judge), and even appeared on The Tonight Show as part of the viral short Easter Bunny Hates You. Despite mainstream attention, Seymour remains rooted in independent and underground filmmaking. His films have been distributed by NBCUniversal’s Peacock TV, Mubi, Netflix DVD, Troma, Screambox, Vinegar Syndrome, and Cineverse, and have been covered by major outlets including Variety, NPR, and The New York Times. With his numerous wins from top underground film festivals and institutions over the decade, Tom has slowly emerged as a top tier underground documentary filmmaker in the U.S.
Known for
Filmography
Emotional Support Shark
Associate Producer
Enter the Television
as Narrator, Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Video Dreams: A VHS Massacre Story
as Narrator, Director, Writer, Producer
Shark Exorcist 2: Unholy Waters
Executive Producer
Exorcism of Fleete Marish
as Tom, Director
VHS Massacre Too
as Self, Director, Writer, Executive Producer
VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media
as Self, Director, Co-Producer, Executive Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
Rudyard Kipling's Mark of the Beast
as Tom, Director, Writer, Editor, Executive Producer
Fake
as Art Guard #2
London Betty
as Billy, Director, Writer
Bikini Bloodbath: Christmas
as Prince Colwyn, Director, Writer
Bikini Bloodbath: Car Wash
Director, Writer, Producer
Bikini Bloodbath
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
The Land of College Prophets
as Tommy, as Rye, Director
Everything Moves Alone
as Anderson, Writer