E. Elias Merhige

Directing

E. Elias Merhige

Born

1964-06-14 (62)

Place of birth

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

17 titles

Edmund Elias Merhige (born June 14, 1964) is an American film director best known to mainstream audiences for the black comedy horror film "Shadow of the Vampire" (2000), and to underground audiences for the surrealist horror cult classic "Begotten" (1989). As he says in his audio commentary to the Shadow of the Vampire DVD, Merhige views cinema as the only meaningful art form of the present era. He regards literature and drama as once-needed forms which are past their time and which have been superseded by film. He is also very interested in the occult and the paranormal, and images and themes derived from these traditions suffuse his films. Born in Brooklyn, Merhige currently lives in Lo…

Known for

Behind the camera

Shadow of the Vampire poster
6.7

Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."

Shadow of the Vampire

2000

Begotten poster
6.0

Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.

Begotten

1991

Begotten poster
6.0

Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.

Begotten

1991

Begotten poster
6.0

Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.

Begotten

1991

Suspect Zero poster
5.6

A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.

Suspect Zero

2004

Suspect Zero poster
5.6

A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.

Suspect Zero

2004

Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget poster
8.8

A collection of Marilyn Manson's music videos.

Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget

2004

Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV poster
8.9

God Is in the T.V. is the second video album by Marilyn Manson. It features all 13 music videos Marilyn Manson spawned between July 1994 and November 1999, as well as uncensored bonus footage from the production of "The Dope Show" music video and nearly an hour of live and backstage footage from the Rock Is Dead tour.

Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV

1999

Howl poster
NR

In 1993 an elderly Canadian couple were killed when their car veered off a road in a blizzard. The tragedy was only discovered when the spring snows melted, revealing the wreckage. When they went to the store on their fateful journey, they had left their faithful dog locked up at their summer home, deep in the woods.

Howl

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Din of Celestial Birds poster
6.0

Din of Celestial Birds is a surreal odyssey through the evolution of consciousness.

Din of Celestial Birds

2006

Din of Celestial Birds poster
6.0

Din of Celestial Birds is a surreal odyssey through the evolution of consciousness.

Din of Celestial Birds

2006

Din of Celestial Birds poster
6.0

Din of Celestial Birds is a surreal odyssey through the evolution of consciousness.

Din of Celestial Birds

2006

Polia & Blastema poster
3.0

A love story about two beings that believe themselves to be ONE. Two alien creatures: completely distressed and confounded by their separation. The film is a ritual enacted, where each find the other across time and space as they try to become the other literally and physically, in the process creating a new utopia, a mythic city where the two beautifully merge to become a new kind of creature, a new form of god.

Polia & Blastema

2022

The Begotten Cycle poster
NR

Themes of death, rebirth and mythology combine in this compilation of the subversive and surreal experimental films "Begotten", "Din of Celestial Birds" and "Polia & Blastema."

The Begotten Cycle

2023

The Begotten Cycle poster
NR

Themes of death, rebirth and mythology combine in this compilation of the subversive and surreal experimental films "Begotten", "Din of Celestial Birds" and "Polia & Blastema."

The Begotten Cycle

2023

No artwork available
NR

Directorial debut of E. Elias Merhige.

Implosion

1983

No artwork available
NR

Directorial debut of E. Elias Merhige.

Implosion

1983