Casey Walker (director)

John Casey Walker (born December 20, 1975), known professionally as Casey Walker, is a Canadian film and television director from Thunder Bay, Ontario,[1] whose feature directorial debut film, A Little Bit Zombie, was released in 2012.[2]

Career

As a novice director whose only prior credit was the short film The Morning After, Walker initially had difficulty securing funding to make A Little Bit Zombie, and launched his own independent crowdfunding platform, My Million Dollar Movie, in 2006.[1] The site attracted more than 200,000 hits and secured $20,000 in donations on its first day alone,[1] and was ultimately successful in raising almost $2 million by the time the film entered production in 2011.[3]

The film was shot in the Sudbury area in 2011,[4] and premiered at the 2012 Victoria Film Festival.[5] The film subsequently won several awards from Canadian and international film festivals, most notably Best Feature Film at the 2012 Canadian Filmmakers' Festival.[6]

Both before and after making A Little Bit Zombie, he also worked in television directing episodes of Taste Buds, Prank Patrol, The Adrenaline Project, Survive This, How to Be Indie, Fool Canada, The Hardy Boys and Overlord and the Underwoods.

He has also been a producer or executive producer of films such as The Void,[7] Pyewacket,[8] Die in a Gunfight and In a Violent Nature.[9]

His second and third feature films were both released in 2026, with Home Bodies premiering at the 30th Fantasia International Film Festival,[10] and Ithaqua slated for FrightFest London.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Jamie Smith, "Brains and laughs". TBNewsWatch, May 25, 2012.
  2. ↑ Vlessing, Etan (September 14, 2012). "Toronto 2012: Casey Walker's 'A Little Bit Zombie' Sold to Germany and Japan". The Hollywood Reporter.
  3. ↑ Steve Barton, "Festival Info and Fun New Trailer for A Little Bit Zombie". Dread Central, January 5, 2012.
  4. ↑ Jenny Jelen, "Northerners dig into zombie flick". Sudbury.com, January 10, 2012.
  5. ↑ Etan Vlessing, "Victoria film fest picks A Little Bit Zombie for Canadian gala". Playback, January 5, 2012.
  6. ↑ Graham Lanktree (April 28, 2012). "Ottawa gets A Little Bit Zombie". metronews.ca. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012.
  7. ↑ Steve Barton, "Screen Media Heads into The Void". Dread Central, November 18, 2016.
  8. ↑ Jordan Pinto, "Adam MacDonald brings occult horror Pyewacket to Northern Ontario". Playback, October 26, 2016.
  9. ↑ Dennis Harvey, "‘In a Violent Nature’ Review: A Fresh Canadian Spin on Slasher Conventions". Variety, January 22, 2024.
  10. ↑ Jamie Casemore, "Fantasia Film Festival reveals first wave of 2026 titles". Playback, May 6, 2026.
  11. ↑ Jamie Casemore, "Trio of Canadian genre films to premiere at U.K.’s FrightFest". Playback, June 17, 2026.
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