Midwest Movie Maker

The Kingsbury Run, based on the Cleveland Torso murders The Cleveland Torso murders is a true crime tale at its gruesomest. The city is scarred by its dark legacy. Only the Sam Sheppard mystery (which was reimagined as The Fugitive ) and the more recent escape of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight from kidnapper Ariel Castro possibly top it. The Torso murders occurred primarily in the 1930s, though recent evidence suggests the serial killer - who was never captured or identified - took victims through the 1950s. Victims were drifters, often Depression-era working class folks who lived in shanty towns in Cleveland’s Flats. As the name implies, only the torsos of many victims were discovered. Now a group of Cleveland filmmakers are retelling the story, set in modern day Cleveland. With a copycat killer on the loose, a private investigator ( Deanna Sherman ) teams up with a retired detective ( B.R. Tatalovic ) to stop the madness. We caught up with filmmakers Kurt...

Bobby Jones' new horror feature, "Raw Focus." While the premise of Raw Focus might seem ripped from the pages of a pulp novel - a group of sexy young models disturb the nest of three psychopaths with terrifying results - the story’s inspiration is very much grounded in real world horror. “I was living in Tucson, Ariz., with my older brother,” explains Cleveland filmmaker Bobby Jones . “I was working on a lot of photo shoots with local models. I was always out in the desert and the mountains. Around the same time, there were several news reports about people discovering the bodies of Mexican immigrants in the desert and nobody knowing anything about what happened.” Those two realities merged together in Jones’ mind. Would he one day encounter the killers while out on a photo shoot in the desert? “Sometimes the most terrifying things in life are real. And it was a terrifying idea,” Jones says. “What if you were a model on a photo shoot, came across a mu...