Jon Springer

Jon Springer (born in 1966) is an American independent filmmaker whose science fiction and horror films combine explicit imagery with religious subtext.

Jon Springer - August 2012

Jon Springer (behind camera) directing Living Dead Girl in 2003.

Biography

Springer produced and directed The Hagstone Demon,^[1] a feature-length horror film starring indie-film icon Mark Borchardt (subject of the 1999 documentary American Movie), and underground cinema artist Lung Leg. The Hagstone Demon premiered at the 2009 TromaDance Film Festival in Park City, Utah^[2] and screened as a double-bill with American Movie (1999) at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.^[3]

Springer's style has been criticized as derivative of directors Stanley Kubrick and George A. Romero.^[4] Springer was called “a filmmaker who sees nothing as taboo” by Film Threat in 2002,^[5] and named “most audacious filmmaker” in his native state of Minnesota in 2002.^[6]

Filmography

Year	Film	Role
1993	Dead Looters	Writer/Director
2000	The Hymens Parable	Writer/Director
2001	Heaven 17	Writer/Director
2002	Heterosapiens	Writer/Director
2003	Living Dead Girl	Writer/Director
2005	The Wood Witch	Writer/Director
2006	Space Monster	Writer/Director
2009	Dollface	Writer/Director
2010	Zombie 101	Writer/Director
2011	The Hagstone Demon	Writer/Director