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| Emily DiPrimo: 13-year-old horror director |
A thirteen year old girl named Emily is making a feature length horror movie. After watching her father Ron Di Primio make films and from her own experiences working on horror films since she was 4 years old, Emily Di Primiohas decided to take a seat in the director's chair. Di Primio will co-write and co-direct (along with her father) the upcoming flick
CARVER; a throwback to the heyday of 80s slasher films. The story follows a group of teenagers who have all kept secret the fact they caused the deaths of several people on Halloween when they were younger. Years later on the anniversary of those deaths, the teenagers begin receiving terrifying threats in the form of pumpkins. The film was fully financed through Kickstarter, raising $31,900 of its original $25,000 goal. Di Primio has promised no CGI gore and her kickstarter video more than proves that this youngster has been raised on a healthy diet of horror. Di Primio is currently casting
CARVER and the film is hopefully projected to begin filming May of 2014.
Sound familiar?
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| Emily Hagins of PATHOGEN, MY SUCKY TEEN ROMANCE, and GROW UP, TONY PHILLIPS |
When Emily Hagins was only 12 years old, she directed a feature length zombie film called
PATHOGEN and was the subject of the documentary
ZOMBIE GIRL. While many dismissed Hagins' young age (and gender) as nothing more than a gimmick for an independent film, the final product of
PATHOGEN proved that Hagins was a filmmaker far beyond her years. While many could have accepted if Hagins' filmmaking career was going to solely consist of
PATHOGEN, Hagins has since directed three other projects including
MY SUCKY TEEN ROMANCE and the SXSW selection
GROW UP, TONY PHILLIPS. There's nothing gimmick about Emily Hagins, she genuinely makes fun and clever movies.
So what does this say about Emily Di Primio?
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| Emily Di Primio in her kickstarter promotional video |
Women and girls are not these fragile little creatures afraid of blood (you all
do know what happens to us every month, right?) and there are plenty of young girls with an appetite for gore and horror. Emily Di Primio proves that Emily Hagins wasn't a fluke, and she's not not some special exception to the rule of "sugar, spice, and everything nice." Girls love horror. Plain and simple. Hagins paved the way for girls like Di Primio, and it's incredibly inspiring to see young girls taken seriously with their desire to make a scary movie. I'm excited to see that Di Primio is putting
CARVER in motion and I look forward to seeing the final product.
