Directing

E. Elias Merhige

Born June 14, 1964 · Brooklyn, New York, USA (age 62)

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.…

Known For

Shadow of the Vampire

Shadow of the Vampire · 2000

Shadow of the Vampire

MovieDramaHorror

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

Begotten

Begotten · 1991

MovieFantasyHorror

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.

Suspect Zero

Suspect Zero · 2004

MovieCrimeThriller

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.

Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget

Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget · 2004

Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget

A collection of Marilyn Manson's music videos.

Krung Thep

Krung Thep · 2026

Krung Thep is a dualistic journey between darkness and the dawn of a new day. The short film symbolizes the beginning of the conflicts between Thailand and Cambodia in 2025, a border dispute that displaced thousands of families and resulted in over a hundred deaths.

Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV

Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV · 1999

Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV

MovieMusicDocumentary

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.

Howl

MovieDramaAdventure

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.

Parallax Of The Liminal Void

Parallax Of The Liminal Void · 2025

Parallax Of The Liminal Void

MovieHorrorRomance

Spiraling into the abyss, two melancholic yet hopelessly infatuated lovers are imprisoned in a beetle-infested nightmare. Wallowing in sorrow, they attempt to maintain a grip on reality to escape torment. The void beckons, death answers.

Filmography

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Shadow of the Vampire

Shadow of the Vampire · 2000

Shadow of the Vampire

MovieDramaHorror

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

Director

Begotten

Begotten · 1991

MovieFantasyHorror

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.

Screenplay

Suspect Zero

Suspect Zero · 2004

MovieCrimeThriller

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.

Director

Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget

Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget · 2004

Marilyn Manson: Lest We Forget

A collection of Marilyn Manson's music videos.

Director

Krung Thep

Krung Thep · 2026

Krung Thep is a dualistic journey between darkness and the dawn of a new day. The short film symbolizes the beginning of the conflicts between Thailand and Cambodia in 2025, a border dispute that displaced thousands of families and resulted in over a hundred deaths.

Co-Director

Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV

Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV · 1999

Marilyn Manson: God Is In the TV

MovieMusicDocumentary

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.

Director

Howl

MovieDramaAdventure

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.

Director

Parallax Of The Liminal Void

Parallax Of The Liminal Void · 2025

Parallax Of The Liminal Void

MovieHorrorRomance

Spiraling into the abyss, two melancholic yet hopelessly infatuated lovers are imprisoned in a beetle-infested nightmare. Wallowing in sorrow, they attempt to maintain a grip on reality to escape torment. The void beckons, death answers.

Thanks

Din of Celestial Birds

Din of Celestial Birds · 2006

Din of Celestial Birds

MovieMysteryAnimation

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

Writer

Polia & Blastema

Polia & Blastema · 2022

Polia & Blastema

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.

Director

The Begotten Cycle

The Begotten Cycle · 2023

The Begotten Cycle

MovieFantasyHorror

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."

Director