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[[File:Jonspringer2012.gif|thumb|right|Jon Springer - August 2012]]
[[Image:Jonspringer.gif|thumb|Jon Springer (behind camera) directing Living Dead Girl in 2003.]]
'''Jon Springer''' (born in 1966) is an American [[independent filmmaker]] whose [[science fiction]] and [[horror film|horror]] films combine explicit imagery with religious subtext.

== Biography ==
Springer produced and directed ''[[The Hagstone Demon]]'',<ref name="The Hagstone Demon at imdb">{{IMDb title|1339098|The Hagstone Demon}}</ref> 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<ref name="QuietEarth Review">{{Cite web|url=http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2009/01/19/Review-of-Jon-Springers-brilliant-combo-of-noir-and-horror-THE-HAGSTONE-DEMON|title=Review of Jon Springer's brilliant combo of noir and horror THE HAGSTONE DEMON|access-date=2009-02-07|archive-date=2019-09-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902214957/http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2009/01/19/Review-of-Jon-Springers-brilliant-combo-of-noir-and-horror-THE-HAGSTONE-DEMON|url-status=dead}}</ref> and screened as a double-bill with ''American Movie'' (1999) at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.<ref>{{cite web|last=Neumann|first=Don|title=THE HAGSTONE DEMON playing limited Halloween run at Museum of Fine Arts in Boston|url=http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2009/09/09/THE-HAGSTONE-DEMON-playing-limited-Halloween-run-at-Museum-of-Fine-Arts-in-Boston|access-date=13 August 2011|archive-date=14 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014143954/http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2009/09/09/THE-HAGSTONE-DEMON-playing-limited-Halloween-run-at-Museum-of-Fine-Arts-in-Boston|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Springer's style has been criticized as derivative of directors [[Stanley Kubrick]] and [[George A. Romero]].<ref name="City Pages profile">{{cite web|url=http://www.citypages.com/2001-03-21/arts/offender-of-the-faith/ |title=Offender of the Faith - Page 1 - Arts - Minneapolis - City Pages |access-date=2009-02-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606031051/http://www.citypages.com/2001-03-21/arts/offender-of-the-faith/ |archive-date=2011-06-06 }}</ref>
Springer was called “a filmmaker who sees nothing as taboo” by Film Threat in 2002,<ref name="FilmThreat Review">{{cite web| url = http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=4902| title = Film Threat {{!}} Your Independent Movie Guide}}</ref>  and named “most audacious filmmaker” in his native state of Minnesota in 2002.<ref name="Secrets of the City interview">{{Cite web | url=http://www.secretsofthecity.com/magazine/reporting/straight-talk/meet-local-filmmaker-jon-springer | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716032539/http://archives.secretsofthecity.com/magazine/reporting/straight-talk/meet-local-filmmaker-jon-springer | archive-date=2011-07-16 | title=Meet Local Filmmaker Jon Springer  | first=Erik | last=McClanahan | url-status=usurped | date=2008-05-06 }}</ref>

== Filmography ==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"
|-
! 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 (short film)|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
|}

== Notes ==
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== External links ==
* {{IMDb name|0819733|Jon Springer}}


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