Director
E. Elias Merhige
62 years · Brooklyn, New York, USA · 9 films
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 He regards literature and drama as once-needed forms which are past their time and which have been superseded by film.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 Los Angeles, California.
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Filmography 8
The Begotten Cycle
2023 · Director, Writer
Polia & Blastema
2022 · Director
Din of Celestial Birds
2006 · Producer, Writer
Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget
2004 · Director
Suspect Zero
2004 · Director, Producer
On Hoopla
Shadow of the Vampire
2000 · Director
On VIX
Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV
1999 · Director
Begotten
1991 · Director, Screenplay