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...
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