Made her first feature at the age of 12 in her hometown of Austin, Texas – a zombie movie called Pathogen. The documentary Zombie Girl: The Movie chronicled her process from start to finish. Hagins made her second feature, The Retelling, at the age of 14. At 17, she wrote and directed her third feature, My Sucky Teen Romance, which film premiered at SXSW and was distributed by Dark Sky Films.
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Biography from TMDB.
- October 27, 1992 (34)
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Director and writer, also producer
- 6 on MovieCove · 15 credits in all
What are Emily Hagins' films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Survival.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
A split, not a type: Ironic 1 · Wry 1 · Earnest 2
Light 4 · Serious 0 · Dark 1
Grounded 3 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0
Gentle 2 · Charged 2 · Intense 1
A split, not a type: Steady 2 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 2
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 1 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 3
Slow burn 0 · Even-paced 5 · Relentless 0
Casual 4 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 4 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 1
Resolved 4 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet3
- Ambiguous1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Emily Hagins' films?
As of October 24, 2026, 5 of their 6 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Emily Hagins' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
15 credits, 6 with a MovieCove page; 2 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Sorry About the Demon(2022)
Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all films
Cold Open (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Scare Package(2019)
Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all films
V/H/S: Video Horror Shorts (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Coin Heist(2017)
Midcredits score: 10th percentile of all films
Marco Polo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Holidays(2016)
Midcredits score: 12th percentile of all films
Ninja Masters 4: The Possession (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all films
Grow Up, Tony Phillips (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
My Sucky Teen Romance(2011)
Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all films
The Retelling (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Party Killer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Pathogen (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Mistletoe (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 15 titles, 14 of them dated from 2006 to 2022.
Film career
- 2016Screen debut· Holidays
By role
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Emily Hagins' films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 19th percentile, the median of all 6; across their 5 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 25th percentile for acclaim.
- 25th to 49th1
- Below 25th5
Shape of the crowd
6 of their 6 titles are Mixed.
- Mixed6
Reviewers score the atmosphere 43/100 and the pacing 38/100 in their films, across 5 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Emily Hagins work with?
People who share at least 2 of Emily Hagins' MovieCove titles; Jon Michael Simpson shares the most, 2.
- Jon Michael SimpsonShared titles: Sorry About the Demon (2022), Scare Package (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Jon Michael Simpson
- Jeremy William SmithShared titles: Sorry About the Demon (2022), Coin Heist (2017)See all 2 shared titles with Jeremy William Smith