Zombie Girl: The Movie

This is a "making of" documentary about the 2005 filming of the zombie film Pathogen, made by then-12-year-old Austinite Emily Hagins.

"...made her first feature film, a zombie picture titled Pathogen. It’s an inspirational story, of course, and also an..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Latest From Z Zeitgeist

'Pathogen' and 'Zombie Girl: The Movie'

"...a determined 12-year-old girl? Perhaps nothing. But Emily Hagins' Pathogen, which premiered this spring at the Alamo Drafthouse, has..."

June 30, 2006 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Emily Hagins' Unsucky Movie Career

Austin's zombie girl taps into vamps for her third feature

"...Girl provides a handy backstory to Hagins' debut feature, Pathogen, a bloody good (caveat: bloody good for a 12-year-old)..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Growing Pains

Emily Hagins became a household Austin name for her work as a teen director, but what happens when that novelty wears off?

"...her friends and neighbors in Austin to appear in Pathogen, the movie she's determined to complete shooting. She corrects..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Can Architecture Provide a Blueprint for Our Post-COVID Existence?

Forge Craft Architecture's COVID Companion is a field guide to the world of the Aftertimes

"...In just the past 20 years, we've seen several pathogens that could have taken us to that stage –..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Apes and humans: Why can't everyone just get along?

"...human survivors who have an inexplicable immunity to the pathogen that killed off most of their brethren. A human..."

July 11, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Emily Hagins So Does Not Suck!

Emily Hagins secures distro deal with MPI Media

"...to make her first film, the biozombie outbreak thriller Pathogen just a year later. The fact that she made..."

Oct. 19, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

My Unsucky Third Movie

'Zombie Girl' debuts trailer for new feature at Wizard World

"...the high school director responsible for creating zombie horror Pathogen when she was 12.) Along with her sophomore feature..."

Nov. 20, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Emily Hagins' Unsucky Fundraiser

"My Sucky Teen Romance" Benefit at Scholz Garden

"...12 when she directed the feature length zombie opus Pathogen, which in turn spawned the Slamdance/Fantastic Fest documentary fave..."

July 21, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Austin Goes to Park City

Zombies and Mongols do the 'Dance

"...Austinite Emily Hagins, and the casting call was for Pathogen, the ambitious feature from, well, a 12-year-old girl...."

Jan. 16, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Repo! The Genetic Opera

This cyber-gothic opera set in an unsavory world of the near-future stars Sarah Brightman, Paul Sorvino, and Paris Hilton, among others.

"...gothling Shilo Wallace, a black-bewigged sufferer of an unknown pathogen who finds her life constrained by her father, Nathan..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Red Eye

Red Eye’s no classic, but with its smart, twisty little script and those two killer performances, it's a helluva lot of fun.

"...grimly funny Dublin portrait Intermission, or even Danny Boyle’s zombie-pathogen epic 28 Days Later, it’s becoming clear that Murphy’s..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Surreal Science

Looking at three books -- Plague Time, Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy, and The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine, Roger Gathman observes that for every advance in technology, nature counterbalances with new opportunities for disease.

"...unlike infectious illnesses, arise in the absence of a pathogen, with the causative agent blamed variously on genetics or..."

March 2, 2001 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Hadestown Postponed Until September

Omicron says "To Hell with your schedules, puny humans!"

"...those cast and crew members affected by this stupid pathogen … and queueing up something almost as Hadestown-level enjoyable..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn include violet blewits, a tree pathogen called the "orange hobnail canker," and a honey­-hued jelly..."

May 21, 2021 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Will the Third Time Be a Charm for an Austin Rail System?

Project Connect looks to help make connections

"...consider the viability of a system so vulnerable to pathogen," their website proclaims. But the reason we'll see increased..."

Sept. 25, 2020 News Feature by Jack Craver

In Lawrence Wright's Novel, an Imagined Pandemic That's Frighteningly Real

If disease-ravaged world of The End of October feels like our own, that’s because the author did his research rigorously

"...early 20th century and the SARS, MERS, and Ebola pathogens of our day. And the actions of his virologist..."

May 1, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Shows Must Go On(line)

More Austin performers take their acts to the internets for streaming

"...it’s gonna take more than social distancing and other anti-pathogen protocols to stop them. Because it won’t stop them...."

March 19, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Arts Events

"...this Downtown spot is temporarily closed until Our Little Pathogen Friends get themselves the fuck outta Dodge. But, the..."

March 20, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Parallelogramophonograph Goes Virtual

Local improv troupe storms the internet with live yes-and comic relief

"...that for context’s sake. But never mind the damned pathogen, let’s hear more about what PGraph did to make..."

March 17, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Tito and the Birds

Brazilian animation goes for the throat of Late Capitalism

Feb. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

Austin Filmmaker Emily Hagins Debuts Series at SXSW Film

Hold to Your Best Self is a high school Rashomon

"...of Hagins' previous work, such as her debut feature Pathogen (which she made when she was only 12) or..."

March 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

The HIV Gap

While state HIV rate declines, Travis County rate climbs – especially among African-Americans

"...says, "what we are seeing is, like any other pathogen, over time it spreads into the population, then those..."

Sept. 11, 2015 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

APD Cracks Down on Spillway Swimmers and Dogs

APD began enforces ban on swimming and off-leash dogs at the spillway, after years of turning a blind eye

"...water. Fortune recalls Bull Creek's past problems with high pathogen levels, and notes that APD has received several complaints..."

Aug. 8, 2014 News Feature by Amy Kamp

APD Is Enforcing the Doggone Spillway Ban

Police and Parks Department crack down on hot spot for dogs and swimmers

"...Lt. Fortune recalls Bull Creek’s past problems with high pathogen levels, and notes that APD has received several complaints..."

Aug. 4, 2014 News Post by Amy Kamp

Full-Gore Press

Mind the viscera: Austin's horror filmmaking scene is exploding

"...lest we forget, Austin teen wunderkind Emily Hagins of Pathogen and Zombie Girl fame recently struck a deal with..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

sxswf: Totally Unsucking at 17

Emily Hagins' third film world premieres tonight

"...age 12 with her first film, the zombie pic Pathogen...."

March 15, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin Gets the Geek Stamp of Approval

Wizard World Comic Con brings Lando, Lee, and the Centipede three to town

"...return for a screening, while the Zombie Girl herself, Pathogen director Emily Hagins, will hold a panel about her..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Taste of Honey

How we get honey now, and what might happen to the industry in the future

"...be a lot of things. It could be a pathogen; it could be some environmental influences as well."..."

June 12, 2009 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Film News

An Oscar, a zombie, and a film incentive walk into a bar ...

"...Erik Mauck, and Justin Johnson and their subject, now-16-year-old Pathogen filmmaker Emily Hagins... South by Southwest and IFC are..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

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