Biography

Emily Hagins wrote and directed her first feature at the age of 12 in her hometown of Austin, TX - a zombie movie, Pathogen. The documentary Zombie Girl, The Movie chronicled her process from start to finish. In 2022, Pathogen was re-released by the American Genre Film Archive and Bleeding Skull! on Blu-ray. Emily made her second feature, The Retelling, at the age of 14. At 17, she wrote and directed her third feature - My Sucky Teen Romance (SXSW 2011, Dark Sky Films). She also wrote and directed a coming of age Halloween dramedy- Grow Up, Tony Phillips (SXSW 2013), and an adaptation of a young adult teen heist novel, Coin Heist (Netflix Original Film).

She wrote/directed segments in two horror anthologies: Touch for Chiller TV's Chilling Visions: 5 Senses of Fear, and Cold Open for Shudder's horror/comedy anthology, Scare Package. She also completed the six-episode digital series Hold To Your Best Self (SXSW 2018) and the horror short First Kiss for Snapchat's V/H/S series (SXSW 2019). Her most recent feature, Sorry About the Demon (Shudder Original Film), premiered at FrightFest in London and was released on Shudder in 2023.

- IMDb mini biography by: Emily Hagins