Genre fav Bill Moseley has become a madman in the horror genre as of late starring in nearly 20 films since THE DEVIL'S REJECTS hit theaters back in 2005. With some big films such as REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA coming out in 2008, we figured it was time to catch up with the acting phenom to talk about where his career has gone and where it will go in the upcoming years.

Bloody-Disgusting: I was looking at your IMDB, its’ ridiculous how many movies you have coming out. Do you like the horror genre so much that you enjoy doing mostly horror films or do you wish you were doing some other form of genre as well?

Bill Moseley: I’m happy to work, you know I’ve been doing this for a long time, and so I certainly have gone through many slow spells and dry patches. And so work to me is good and however you get it, wherever you get it, whenever you get it. I certainly can do more than ..you know bang people on the head with a claw hammer or slice them up with a straight razor. But yeah, I am certainly happy to get the work.

BD: People are starting to say that you are the ‘scream king’, how do you feel about that?

BM: I’m not really that good a screamer, you know I only actually recently learned how to scream from my vocal coach! He told me when I scream that I should scream within the confines of my voices. When you really let ‘er rip you can really tear up your throat really easily, you know? I found that out when I did a movie called Fallen Angels and my eyes were being gouged out by Kane Hodder, who played the Demon of Pride. First of all he cut off my ear with a rusty knife and then he was gouging my eyes out and I really wanted to give the fans a good accounting for being on the other side, on receiving end of torture and murder and so I really screamed, hard and long, and didn’t do it mechanically right so I ended up blowing out my voice for the rest of the day.

BD: Ouch.

BM: But at least Jason did kill Otis, or whatever, they were calling it something. I figured that I had killed so many people that it was really good to get a job being the victim instead of the victimizer.

BD: Do you watch all the movies that you star or act in?

BM: Yeah.

BD: What are some of your favorites and least favorites that you can remember?

BM: You know, I watch them all because I like to see if I was good or not, I like to see whether or not some of my favorite scenes actually translated onto the screen. A lot of times you can be there and do a fantastic acting job and then once it goes through the director and the editor might pick a different shot from the one you really did your best work in, for a number of different reasons. It might edit in a certain way or it might not make the movie because of time constraints. So I always check it out. Really I always see the movies just once to see what did make it and also just as a scrapbook of the experience.

BD: Was there ever a movie where you were like, “Man, I was awesome.” Like while you were filming you were like “Man, I was awesome, I was on top of my game today”?

BM: The only time I really saw that was - (he changes thoughts) 'cause I hardly ever watch dailies... you know dailies are the rushes of shooting you may have done a day or two earlier. And basically the dailies are what give the director and the producer and the cinematographer an indication of whether the work was good, the film was good. I was told early on in my career that if I watched dailies, that I would burst into flame. And I think the downside of watching dailies, for an actor, is if you see something, if you’re self-conscious about your performance you might, in the middle of shooting, start doing things differently. That ends up creating a lot of trouble for the editor, for the director, so I just don’t watch dailies.

I think I did one time though and that during the shooting of Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. I think I might have seen something like the radio station scene, with Caroline ‘Stretch’ Williams and I was like that looks pretty f*ckin cool. So sometimes I sneak in there. It took me a little while to warm up to Devil’s Rejects at first, it was such a mind blower because it was such an emotional shoot that the first time I saw a screening of it, a lot of that emotion came back up and it was a little overwhelming. But then I kind of got my - with it and saw it two, three more times. I certainly judge some of that performance in that as well.

BD: Has Rob talked to you about his next movie Tyrannosaurus Rex yet?

BM: Nope, but I have just an anticipation that may be one of my top friends on my MySpace page (laughs).

BD: You have a bunch of upcoming projects that people are pretty excited about. What is this top secret Gahenna project, what can you tell us about that? There’s a photo that leaked of you in some crazy make up...

BM: I think that is it’s tentatively titled ICE 44 the untitled Gahenna project. And that actually has a cast pretty good cast here. It’s got Cuba Gooding Jr., Ron “Hellboy” Pearlman, Ray “Beowulf” Winstone - so right there you can’t go wrong. It's kind of a military vs. biblical evil and that I can tell you. It was directed by Jason Connery who is Sean Connery’s son.

I really worked on it for a couple of days, I played a possessed bureaucrat and it was a lot of fun. I think day one of those two days was tough because it was about a 20 hour day with maybe either eight or nine of that in make-up. There was a lot of make-up. Actually, I don’t think it took nine hours to put that make up on and take it off, it was prolly a good four or five hours. And that’s always tough when you want to impress people and your trying to learn those lines, in your head, and your standing in a fairly chilly room, I think it was shot in an abandoned hospital somewhere in Los Angeles. And you have to stand up to get the make up on, because it was a chest piece and a back piece, as well as the head. I do remember getting there awfully early, like 5:30, 6 in the morning and standing up for four hours as cold rubber was glued on me. That’s why when people look at the screen and say, “Boy, I could do that” it might actually be accurate, they might be able to do that. But what a lot of people don’t see, of course, is the tremendous suffering and especially in the horror genre, that we actors undergo to actually get to the set to say those lines. But I think its really cool, the story is really cool, I haven’t heard much about it in terms of a release date or how close it is to getting released. I wouldn’t mind checking it out.

BD: Did it feel like a theatrical type movie to you or did it feel like a home video type movie?

BM: It definitely felt theatrical. I’m sure that if they have Ron Pearlman, Ray Winstone, Cuba Gooding Jr. I would imagine the ambition is to release it theatrically.

BD: You were also announced to be in a movie called The Graves this past week. What is your role in that?

BM: I play, I like to say, a small town guy who is an entity, an evil entity. (Laughs) I think that’s the best I can say about that. It is being shot in beautiful Wickenburg, Arizona. Which is actually where I used to go as a kid, I used to go to Wickenburg, to a dude ranch with my family and ride horses and look for geodes and stay away from scorpions and rattlesnakes so, I’m looking forward to getting back to Wickenburg.

BD: The Alphabet Killer, I’m not sure how big your role is in that, but do you know about, they were saying that the film actually helped catch the real killer?

BM: Oh that’s great. Yea, I’m in it, it was more of a cameo but it was a great part. It was fun to work with Rob Schmidt and also, my buddy, Michael Ironside, it was fun to see him, I didn’t actually have a scene with him, but he was up there at the same time in beautiful Rochester, New York on the banks of the Genesee River. Actually it was really cool, cause not only was it fun to work on the movie, on the way back from shooting one day we drove over to the Erie Canal. And I burst into song cause as a kid I learned that song called The Erie Canal…(sings) I’ve got a mule, her name is Sal, 15 miles on the Erie Canal.

BD: Hahaha

BM: (laughs) So, yeah, I went over to the Erie Canel and it was pretty cool.

BD: (still laughing) Oh and Repo! is one of your big projects coming up, have you had a chance to see it?

BM: I did, I saw it a little over a month ago, maybe five or six weeks ago, I thought it was fantastic.

BD: And you have a pretty pivotal moment with some hilarious dialogue, could you talk about that moment?

BM: I was kinda the house killer on that movie, me and Anthony Head seemed to provide a lot of the slicing and the dicing. One fun part was that I did get to sing, in fact, because it is an Opera just about every line is sung. It was also really great to have gotten the part by following a Pussycat Doll for my singing audition. I remember the night I went in to audition, it was at a recording studio in North Hollywood, spring of last year 2007, and I went in just hoping to God that I could hold the tune. They gave me a song to prepare and I had taken it to my singing coach and worked on the song. I figured that maybe I could get away without humiliating myself and then I walked in and there auditioning right before me was one of the Pussycat Dolls. And she was owning the song, she was making moves, she looked like she was on a Vegas stage, I mean, she was really just a total pro and I was thinking, I am f*cked. (laughs) I was like Oh my God! There’s no way I could kinda slink in and sing a few bars and get the hell outta there before the tomatoes start flying. I thought “they’re gonna gut me.” And I actually followed the Pussycat Doll, who did a great job and I think she was up for the part that ultimately went to Paris Hilton. And then I went in there, and I gotta say that the thing that saved my bacon was a ‘magic microphone’… I think Slayer had recorded in this studio, that is a very top musical act, so they had all the best equipment and there was a microphone that really I sang one note in it and it sounded so rich and full. It just completely surprised me (laughs). So thanks to the magic microphone I was able to sing my song and I guess I did a good enough job to get the part.

BD: So the lesson is anyone can be a rockstar, huh?

BM: Well, you know, it was so funny because Darren Bousman had asked me earlier, if I could sing and I said well, have you heard Cornbugs? And he said yes I have heard Cornbugs but I’m wondering if you can sing (laughs). I had a band with Buckethead… I did a little singing on it…

BD: Are you still doing Cornbugs?

BM: No. I don’t think I’ve spoken to Buckethead in close to a year and a half. I think he’s working more with that guy, Serj from System of a Down. It was a lot of fun while it latest, Buckethead is a great guy and is certainly one of the great guitar players of our time.

BD: Oh yeah. He’s incredible. So were you a fan of “Carnivàle” when it was on?

BM: You know, I did get HBO just to watch “Carnivàle”. I thought it was very cool, I thought the first season was pretty fantastic. So I was a fan, I was on ultimately I think it was 9 episodes of it as Possum the Cook. It was fun to be a part of that I loved the cast members, I loved Tim Dekay and Michael Anderson, there was some really fun people, some fun cast members, some really great work going on. So I guess, yes, I was. I didn’t really watch much of the 2nd season, they brought me back for like one line in one episode. In season 2, think I said something like, “Mock apple pie?? Mock apple pie,… so that was my line for my brave return. But yea, it was certainly a good experience and I didn’t get hurt and the money helped get me and my family get another year of SAG medical coverage.

BD: I’ve never seen the series but apparently it ended extremely abrupt and people were really pissed off. Have you heard anything about that?

BM: Well, would that maybe be the 2nd season?

BD: Yeah..

BM: The 1st season ended with a kind of a teaser but I wouldn’t say it ended so abrupt, I think it kind of held interest and made people curious to what was gonna happen when the season resumes at 2nd season.

BD: Did they ever tell you what the ultimate finally would have been had they’d shot it? For like the entire series?

BM: No. You know, it was funny, I was like a glorified extra so the producers and writers and directors weren’t really wrapping their arms around my shoulders and whispering plot lines in my ear (laughs).

BD: And lastly, do you have any upcoming projects that we might not know about?

BM: I’m still shopping my screenplay "Burials", about children on a foster farm. It isn’t really a horror film per say, it certain is dark, it’s based on a true story. And then I’m gonna have lunch tomorrow with Tony Hooper, Tobe Hooper’s son. I worked with Tony on a project a long time ago called The All American Massacre which is one of those “whatever happened to…” type projects which I’ll ask him myself tomorrow because it was really very cool. It was a flashback, kinda a prequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Also, it projected Chop Top like 10 years after the end of Chainsaw 2. It was a very, very cool project and we were actually talking about getting together and doing some new stuff. So that should be a fun lunch tomorrow. Hoping we go to Subway, you know, I like to do like those 6-inch cold cut combos. (laughs)

BD: (laughs) So this All American Massacre, this is something Tony wants to shoot?

BM: No, actually it something we shot a long time ago.

BD: Oh really?! I’ve never heard of this!

BM: It was something very small, actually I think it started out as Tony’s resume piece, he just wanted to shoot a five-minute scenario to show off his computer graphics skills to go around and get work I guess in computer graphic houses. And it ended up kinda taking on a life of its own. Actually, on YouTube I think you can see a very cool trailer for it, The All American Massacre. Buckethead does some music in it, in fact I think Buckethead plays Leatherface. You know, its pretty cool, but then I’ll find out more about that tomorrow. I am working on some new music and crossing my fingers that some of these great movies come out.

BD: I know man, its crazy how many things you got coming out. I’m look at this list and I’m going whoa!

BM: Well, its so funny I’ve got a movie called "House", it’s the 2nd Ted Dekker movie idea, the first one was called "Thr3e". That came out a couple years ago and then I went back to Poland and did "House" with Lew Temple and Lesile Easterbrook, the three of us play a weird little family. And that should be coming out one of these days. There’s also a really cool movie, it’s called "Alone in the Dark 2", that was produced by good old Uwe Boll. That was actually pretty cool it’s about some kick ass witch hunters. I got to work with Lance Henriksen and Danny Trejo on that one. So that should be coming out pretty soon. And of course there’s "Alphabet Killer" and there’s another movie that I did called "Babysitter Wanted". Which I was told they actually screened it at a HorrorHound Convention in Indianapolis last year. I wasn’t around, so I didn’t get to see it but that was pretty cool. Then, the of course the Untitled "Gehenna Project" and "Repo!" and a movie I did at the end of last year called "Blood Night", Frank Sabatella directed that one. It’s the legend of Mary Hatchet that we shot in New York and New Jersey. And I just did a cameo on Rob Zombie’s new animated feature called "El Superbeasto" and lest we not forget I finally finished up the Corbin Bernsen Movie, "Dead Air". That began in March of ’07 and there was a long hiatus due to work and schedules and things and then we finally finished it up in March of ’08. That’s the closest to a cross over role for me lately because I play a good guy, a radio disc jockey, like a shock jock type guy who is on the air when there’s a zombie outbreak. I’m sort of the voice of reason and I play good guy, a hero guy which is actually much of a change (laughs). I’m not one of the zombies! So that’s kinda cool.

BD: Did you listen to any shock jocks to get any inspiration?

BM: You know what I did was, I saw that Eric Bogosian movie called Talk Radio. And that was cool in terms of what he did with the microphone, you know, touching it (laughs). It didn’t really help because it was such a different character. Then Corbin had suggested that I rent a movie called All That Jazz cause he wanted me to do that Bob Fosse character. I did look at it but these characters just spring not so much from other performances but they just kinda spring organically from the material. You know, the situation, my fellow actors, and story mates. It was really a lot of fun and it was a lot of work. I’m really expecting big things from that, as well.

BD: Awesome. Well, thank you very much for your time this morning.