Bill Moseley
On March 21st, 2003, at approximately 3:03 P.M. in the rural town of Boston Massachutes, a college student named Marcus Slabine was able to get an interview with Bill "Choptop" Moseley. A man who was a part of the cannibalistic family that terrorized a group of kids in Texas years ago. The events that occured that day are scarce and are known to the world as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The following interview is a documentation of the events that occurred upon that day, this is his interview...This is....The Texas Chainsaw Massacre...INTERVIEW!
Marcus:: Tell me about yourself, when your not dressed
up, hacking, killing, and scaring the shit out of America, what does Bill
Moseley like to do in his spare time?
Bill: Well, I've got a load of pets, so I spend a lot
of time cleaning out cat boxes, playing with my parrot, Mr. Hanky, shaking
flakes into the fish tank, buying cans for the cats and seeds for the birds.
I've got two kids, so I play with them, listen to their mothers, keep my car
shiny and full of gas. If I have the money, I rent movies, eat in restaurants
and grab an occasional donut at the corner coffee shop.
Marcus: You have been in Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2, The Blob,
Silent Night, Deadly Night 3, Army of Darkness, Night of the Living Dead Remake,
and now, Rob Zombie's directorial debut with House of 1000 corpses, What got you
into horror or was it something you loved growing up? If so, what are your
favorite horror films?
Bill: As a kid, I loved to watch horror movies. They
were usually on pretty late on our black & white Zenith, so it was scary
being up when everyone was asleep. Also, the TV room was down the creaky hall
from my parents' bedroom, and one false step could have gotten me in deep
doo-doo with them, so I had to sneak down the hall, in the dark, close the
library door, turn on the TV, listen way scrunched up to hear the tiny sound
'cause i couldn't turn it up too loud or my dad would hear!
I practiced making fright faces in the mirror, walking like Frankenstein as a
kid, and I guess it stuck with me. In college I ran a horror film series called
Things that Go Bump in the Night, so I've always been connected to my monsters.
My fave's? Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Night of the Living Dead, Carnival of Souls,
Dracula, Freaks, Suspiria, Evil Dead 2, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The Brain
that Wouldn't Die and Atomic Submarine (I'm a sucker for a theremin).
Marcus: What was your experience like being Choptop and working with Tobe
Hooper in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2? Were you nervous at all, thinking you had
to live up to that of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"?
Bill: I wasn't at all nervous working on Saw 2. Well, I
was a little nervous until I ran into Jim Siedow (the Cook) in the parking lot
of the motel we stayed in while we shot the movie. Just seeing Jim fired me up,
filled my heart with love for my new family! Working with Tobe was a breeze- I
had total confidence in him. Hell, he hired me sight unseen on the basis of a
5-minute video I wrote, produced and had a cameo in called "The Texas
Chainsaw Manicure." And once Tom Savini and his henchmen shaved my head and
put me in Choptop makeup, Bill Moseley as we know him was gone for eight weeks
and our favorite "hippie with a haircut" was holding court and
scratching his plate. I loved playing Choptop, still do when my kids get out of
line.
Marcus: How did it feel being the landmark character that sported the
famous catchprase "They're coming to get you Barbara?" in the Night of
the Living Dead remake? What was it like working with George A. Romero and Tom
Savini?
Bill: I loved working with Tom Savini on Night of the
Living Dead. He sent me the script and told me to pick any character I wanted to
play. I chose the guy in the basement, the weaselly guy who's trying to gain
control of the house, because that was a pretty big part. Tom said any part, but
just make sure it's Johnny. Okay, okay. I went to my local video store and
rented "Die, Monster, Die!" to work on my Boris Karloff accent, played
it over and over again until I got that curled English lisp of his. Watching
Night of the Living Dead, I realized that Russ Streiner, the original Johnny,
was playing pretty fast & loose with the accent, so I didn't sweat it. I did
add the line "They're horny, Barbara, they've been dead a long time,"
which Tom, George and the boys liked enough to leave in.
Marcus: What information can you dish out about House of 1000 Corpses and
what you would like to see happen with it in the future?
Bill: Let's see, it's due out in theatres April 11. Rob
Zombie told me that the premiere is April 9 here in Los Angeles. Rob finally
showed some of us cast members the movie last Wednesday (March 19, 2003), and it
really rocks! And that's the R-rated version. The DVD will I'm sure be
chockablock with gory surprises and bonus bodies! I'd love to see this movie do
well at the box office, if only to send a signal to the studios to make some
good horror movies instead of this crap they've been churning out for the past
twenty years! I'd also love to work on a sequel. It'd be fun to crank it back up
as Otis Driftwood and fun to work with Rob and the Firefly gang. Plus, I could
use the money to feed all these pets!!!
I would like to thank Bill Moseley for doing this interview with me, I have seen
House of 1000 Corpses and I hope it does well as well. I urge you ALL to go see
the movie in theatres! Hell, I am going to go see it when it hits my local
theatre, and bringing as many people as I can! You should do the same!
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