Midwest Movie Maker

'The Walking Dead's shambling walkers I love The Walking Dead . Mostly because it is a well-written, well-produced, well-acted, intense horror drama. But maybe even more so because it’s filled to the gills with zombies . And in the middle of the scare season, nothing spooks me more than shambling cadavers. Zombies - or walkers, if you’re a fan of the AMC show or Image comic - are more frightening than any fictional monster you can imagine. Vampires, werewolves, mutants, reanimated slashers, idiot teens in Halloween masks - none hold a waxy candelabra to a horde of hungry corpses. It’s the multiplying mass. It’s claustrophobic. Plus the inevitability that you’re going to bump into a dearly departed loved-one. And that your loved one will likely tug out your intestines through your belly button. The Walking Dead ’s fourth season debuts Sunday. The successful show, developed by Frank Darabont, based on Robert Kirkman’s popular comic book , owes much of its setting - the...

Tracking the North American legend He is a giant of North American mythology. A tall tale titan who holds court with Pecos Bill and John Henry. Ten – no, 50 – no 100 feet tall, wielding a mighty axe that dug the Grand Canyon and followed by a gargantuan blue ox, Babe, his tried and true companion. He is Paul Bunyan. And by any measure he is a sight to behold. For filmmakers Gary Jones and Jeff Miller , he is also a holy terror unlike any you have seen before. It’s also the creative force that drives the duo’s new feature film, Bunyan . In the film, a young group of first-time offenders who, while doing time at a secluded boot camp deep in the woods, discover that Paul Bunyan is more than just a tall tale. They come face to face with the true story of Bunyan’s hidden dark past and feel the wrath of this legendary folk hero. “It’s is a dark, contemporary take on the tale of the giant lumberjack,” says Miller. And a lot of bloody fun. The film was sho...