Tony "Tex" Watt is a Canadian multimedia artist (filmmaker, actor, author singer/ songwriter recording artist , former radio host, cartoonist and stage performer) & member of Vom, a Canadian recording Act (as well as a solo performer). Of Irish descent, Watt was born in Kingston Jamaica. Watt generally likes to work within the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror ( mostly with his artistic partner/muse :( Filmmaker/Actress) Vivita. Tony ("Tex" to his friends), grew up mostly in Brampton, Ontario & works as an underground indie film-maker, T.V. producer, actor, cartoonist, musician, singer and songwriter. Watt's preference is to self-produce his various projects. He started out making infomercials - and soon, like many movie directors , Watt saw the horror genre as a launching pad to go on to bigger and better things. Watt grew up in the West Indies, the States (Florida, New York and Texas, where he got his nickname "Tex"); but, mostly in Brampton, Ontario, Canada and Toronto. As an independent Canadian t.v. producer ,Watt in 2002 founded the short-lived international ''Twisted Sinema'' Underground Movie Festival. There he met the filmmakers from ''Primal Films'', who gave Watt acting roles in the horror b-movies: ''Awakening [aka Zombie Night 2]'' and ''Reel Zombies [aka Zombie Night 3 ]''. Through the "Twisted Sinema" show, Tony also met the Montreal based ''Robomonkey Productions'' filmmakers, who cast him in the cult-horror classic: ''Sinners & Saints'', as the demonic ''Brimstone Milkman''.
In 2004, Watt won his first film-making award ( The New Jersey Film Project's International Greasefire Indiefest's award of excellence for "King Kaufman", a documentary about ''Lloyd Kaufman'', the infamous b-movie filmmaker and founder of New York's ''Troma'' Studios). In 2008 , Watt completed his first two sci-fi/horror/fantasy film features ''Frankenpimp'' ( followed by ''Vixen Highway 2006'' & Acid Head: The Buzzard Nuts County Slaughter..and others..) ; which was shaped by his love for the various cheesy grindhouse/drive in & VHS video ''genres'' of many '60's, '70's and 80's ''exploitation'' type movies. Tony once said in an interview 'Life is Cheesy!' ; and he used that philosophy as a basis for the many styles he incorporates into his own self produced b-movies.
Watt also commented to an interviewer during a press screening of "Frankenpimp": 'My filmmaking is like a documentary-type film; like they made in the '70s, like ''Taxi Driver'', ''Serpico'', ''The Chinese Connection''." ..This scene was inspired by ''Hitchcock''. He did a lot of stuff like this.. This shot, here, I got from porno movies'.
His cinematic influences, also show up in his manga influenced comic-book creations: "Code Name: King" & "Space Chick & Nympho: Vampire Warrior Party Girl" (as well as his television output).
In 2008, after creating a rowdy circus-like early afternoon ''rock'n'roll'' jam at Brampton, Ontario's Bramalea Rd. "All Star Bar and Grill" (complete with a ''bikini'' car wash); Watt soon released his debut rock& roll and Celtic influenced 10-song album: ''TonyWatt.com Plugged'', which includes an eclectic cover of the Irish Standard: ''Danny Boy'' and an original whimsical mariner's song ( he had co-written with film-making pals Lewis Mercer and Mike Burry, both from Newfoundland ) about the fictitious ship, the "King Henry III"; in which Tony & Lewis Mercer mused,'All of the (traditional) songs about seafaring are so depressing... with scurvy and rats. We figured(they must've had a song that was positive.'
A dedicated rocker, he turned on to the charms of Celtic music from his visits to Brampton's "Lar Na nGael" Irish Center:'I started digging into the Celtic stuff,, because if you like ''Led Zeppelin'', they've always done that stuff like ''Battle of Evermore'' or ''Goin' to California'', which is kind of Celtic.' Watt also uses his recorded music to soundtracks of his movies.
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