Jon Springer is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 independent filmmaker whose science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 and horror

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 films combine explicit imagery with religious subtext.

Biography

Springer produced and directed The Hagstone Demon, a feature-length horror film starring indie-film icon Mark Borchardt

Mark Borchardt

Mark Borchardt is an American independent filmmaker. He is best known as the subject of the 1999 film American Movie: The Making of Northwestern, which documented two years he spent writing, shooting and editing his horror short, Coven .-Early life:Borchardt was born and raised in Menomonee Falls,...

 (subject of the 1999 documentary American Movie

American Movie

American Movie: The Making of Northwestern is a 1999 documentary directed by Chris Smith. The film chronicles the real 1996-1997 making of Coven, an independent horror film directed by an independent filmmaker named Mark Borchardt...

), and underground cinema artist Lung Leg

Lung Leg

Born Elizabeth Carr, Lung Leg is best known for appearing on the cover of the Sonic Youth album EVOL...

. The Hagstone Demon

The Hagstone Demon

The Hagstone Demon is an American horror film directed by Jon Springer and starring Mark Borchardt as a drunken ex-reporter plagued by demonic forces...

 premiered at the 2009 TromaDance

TromaDance

The TromaDance Film Festival is a free annual independent film festival organized by Troma Entertainment. Founded in 1999, TromaDance was originally held in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, operating concurrently alongside the Sundance Film Festival in order to showcase an independent...

 Film Festival in Park City, Utah and screened as a double-bill with American Movie (1999) at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Springer's style has been criticized as derivative of directors Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career...

 and George A. Romero

George A. Romero

George Andrew Romero is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter and editor, best known for his gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. He is nicknamed "Godfather of all Zombies." -Life and career:...

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Springer was called “a filmmaker who sees nothing as taboo” by Film Threat in 2002, and named “most audacious filmmaker” in his native state of Minnesota in 2002.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role
1993	Dead Looters	Writer/Director
2000	The Hymens Parable	Writer/Director
2001	Heaven 17 Heaven 17 Heaven 17 are an English synthpop band originating from Sheffield in the early 1980s. The trio comprises Martyn Ware , Ian Craig Marsh and Glenn Gregory...	Writer/Director
2002	Heterosapiens	Writer/Director
2003	Living Dead Girl Living Dead Girl (short film) Living Dead Girl is a low-budget short horror film directed by Jon Springer. The film stars Mark Borchardt who is best known as the subject of the cult documentary American Movie . "Living Dead Girl" is a silent-film zombie parody with extremely graphic gore effects.- Plot :A zombie horde overtakes...	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 The Hagstone Demon The Hagstone Demon is an American horror film directed by Jon Springer and starring Mark Borchardt as a drunken ex-reporter plagued by demonic forces...	Writer/Director

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