Its so awsome to see a zombie movie made by a 12 year old! its actually amazing! i cant wait 'till she's done editing so i'll have the chance to see it!
shareTwo things. One: Emily Hagins is NOT editing the movie, despite what the front page says, and two: anyone who can mooch $7000 off their parents can make a zombie movie.
shareEmily absolutely edited this movie. We have witnesses. What kind of ignorant weirdo would say something like this? She has an editing consultant who is basically giving her pointers on work flow and how to organize her files. She had someone offer to "fine-tune" the final cut files, who took the files for three weeks and DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING and then what ever he claimed to have done was completely inaccessable and unusable when we were down to the wire on a deadline. She also had someone offer to clean up the sound and add a little sparkle with some sound FX, he was a godsend and wonderful, professional person to whom we are very grateful.
And guess what, I don't you believe that any 12-year-old with $7000 could make a movie, there are plenty of them out there. Plus Emily isn't ANY 12-year old, but you, Mr. Stu are an ignorant TROLL and I've reported you to IMDb.
dear mr. stu (is that right?),
do you know me? If you do, please let me know who you are. Have you ever made a movie? If you have, please let me know what kind of movie. Did it cost $5? Because if it did, please let me know the resources that you used. I suggest, if you haven't made a movie, that you check out the budget of every single movie on imdb and see how pathogen compares.
Please know this: I don't hate you for making rude coments, because there are rude people out there that everyone has to deal with. But why would you insult a teenager for an accomplishment?
Sincerely,
Emily
Emily!!! Its Hannah. I saw your movie!!! Mr. Salmond showed it in class. I only saw a little but it was cool. Anyway, see ya at school. the trail of lights was fun with you and Brigeda!! and dont listen to Mr. Stu he doesnt know what he is talking about. : )
HI!
mr_stu,
I have been around for much of the post production on this film. I worked as an editorial consultant for much of it to help manage workflow's, answer general questions and organize media. I can tell you with 100% certainty that Emily edited this entire film. It was Emily's vision from start to finish and she was the only person that made any cuts on the film. To say she didn't is slanderous... I do have to question the motives of someone that would log on for the sole purpose of bashing this film and Emily's efforts. I would like to see 1 post with a link to anything you have done yourself. I doubt we will see anything considering the fact there are no other posts outside of those trying to belittle Emily's efforts, but I present the challenge anyway. My guess is you're a wanna-be filmmaker without the tenacity or courage to make any of your own goals a reality. Just a guy with no product and lots of excuses... and obviously WAY too much time.
Mr_Stu
I also find it hard to stomach that you registered for imdb for the exclusive reason of bashing a young girl and her independent film. I dont see any entries for you slagging on Shane Carruth for making Primer for $7000 (how dare he get a job and finance it yourself), Robert Rodriguez making El Mariachi for $7000 (how dare he raise money being a medical guinea pig), or Kevin Smith for Clerks (how dare he charge everything on credit cards and sell his comic book collection). The way I see it, film grant aside (if you cant get one, you're either not trying hard enough or your source material isnt worth supporting by a grant-there are plenty of outlets out there)-raising 6000 dollars over 2 years comes out to about 60 dollars a week. That's 10 hours a week at a minimum wage paying job. These entries of yours sound like either sour grapes or a lack of ingenuity or perserverance in raising money for your own project. If it's so offensive to you that someone's parents contributed to the budget of the movie, I look forward to seeing your negative comments on the boards of Ed Burns' The Brothers McMullen. His father gave him $25,000 dollars for that film (just checked and there's no comments there from you, but then again, he's a 38 yr old man, and not a 12 yr old girl, so i understand your reluctance to stir up dust over there). Your spiteful uninformed comments make even less sense without any info backing up your ridiculous claims. Just because you can say whatever you like on internet message boards doesnt mean you have to make things up. While you're working up your next batch of untruths. ill wait for your attack on Sam Raimi for borrowing $90,000 from family and friends to make Evil Dead.
Good day, sir. (or ma'am-with the internet, im never sure)
I'll admit, I've been a bit of an *beep* about this. Here's the deal:
A few weeks ago myself and my friends (who are ameateur filmmakers ourselves) heard about a zombie movie that was directed by a thirteen year old. We thought this was cool. However, when we started seeing all the compliments and praise this was getting, we couldnt help but feel this was getting a little overrated. Having made a few movies ourselves since we were in grade 7,we felt that this was being treated too much as a novelty. Then, one of friends (known here as JackHorrorshow) posted the question about the budget, and we discovered that more or less she managed to get $6000 from her parents (I understand this differently now, I am merely recounted what I previously thought) we got angry. We felt that this girl was getting too much recognition for a free ride (again what we previously thought). So I entered these postings with a one-sided view, and through the last few days have uncovered the real story.
Once again, sorry about the misunderstanding, and good on ya, Emily! b^_^d
Hi, I am Hank. I have worked with mr_stu and Jack Horror Show. We are movie makers ourselves. We just recently entered a contest, anyways.
I would like to inform you the mr_stu came here and DID NOT SPEAK FOR US. He came here and, for the lack of a better word, trolled the place under his OWN decision. It's not 'we' that were angry, it was him. I was not angry after hearing about your movie. I just couldn't believe it. Anyways, I would just have like to bring that to your attention.
I hope you were careful with the effects.
When I was 12, my friends and I decided we wanted to re-enact a scene from Dawn of the Dead, so we got this mannequin head and filled it up with dog food, hamburger, food coloring, ketchup and all kinds of other garbage. We rigged a bunch of blockbusters to a cigarette fuse and waited...waited...waited...nothing. My boy goes to check on the fuse...BLAMMO! He was about 3 feet away and got coated with our special "brains" mixture. This footage exists on super8 somewhere, we kinda lost our ambition after he ruined the shot.
Personally I think everyone should calm down a little on this, there's too much hostility on these boards, the fact of the matter is a young girl has taken the time and the imagination to get up and do something, something that she's probably always wanted to do - make a film, it doesn't have to be Shakespeare and it doesn't have to win loads of awards or anything, people here seem to be missing the point that she actually decided she wanted to do this and did it, whereas most girls of her age would probably be doing much more useless things with their time. She also seems to have the complete support of her parents etc which is a great thing, I wish somebody had encouraged me at that age to do something like that. I for one am very impressed and hope that both the film and the documentary I was reading about get a dvd release some day and I'll gladly buy it.
And for those people who are constantly saying on these boards that they could do better - good, go and make something then, then I'll go to your imdb section and I'll support you too. :)
waaay too many bashers on IMDB, good luck to you Emily, from an aspiring filmmaker to a real filmmaker :)
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This probably isn't important, but isn't Emily 13 now? (That's what it says in Teen Vogue. I would hate to think they'd gotten the story wrong.)
shareEmily is indeed 13 and almost 14. However Pathogen was made between her ages of 10 and 12 and production completed before she turned 13. There was some post production that went on after she turned 13, but even the rough cut editing was done before her 13th birthday. She is writing and we are beginning pre-production for her next feature. Time flies when you're having fun.
shareSmall correction...the movie was made when Emily was 11-12, not 10 through 12.
shareYour post has jealousy written all over it! Emily is very talented and you just wish that you were as talented a film maker as she. She had to make several shorts with no budget before Pathogen. It's not as if she just got the money by luck; she had to prove herself first. It shows a lot about you when you come on here just to trash a spectacular artist such as Emily. Rather than saying bad things about other film makers, you could be making a film yourself.
shareI'm for any kid that wants to make a zombie movie, having attempted the thing myself - with my friends. I hope my daughter does the same, and I'll help her. What of it?
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