25 Incredibly Well-Made Horror Films Directed By Women

10. Emily Hagins - Pathogen (2006)

Pathogen is your typical micro-budget zombie movie, except for a few things. The first you will likely notice is that the average age of the cast is much lower than usual, even by horror movie standards. Then there€™s the gore factor, which is curiously restrained for a movie of this sort. So you get around to looking it up, and you find that director Emily Hagins made this film when she was twelve-years-old. So, yeah, something different here. The film opens up in a quiet Austin, Texas neighbourhood where a young girl named Dannie (Rose Kent-McGlew) is having nightmares of an impending apocalypse. Needless to say, she's right. Through some means, the water supply becomes contaminated, killing anyone who drinks from it. To make matters worse, those who€™ve died simply refuse to stay dead. In true Romero fashion, the children of the town attempt to survive through streets filled with the insatiable undead. While the plot may seem standard zombie fare, it does have enough twists of originality to add to the movie€™s charm. The strengths of the movie far outweigh any technical glitches, of which there are surprisingly few.