Director

E. Elias Merhige

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Directed movies: 7Directed series: 0All crew credits: 10

TMDB ID: 17279

IMDb ID: nm0580729

Known for: Directing

Born: June 14, 1964

Age: 61

Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1991 - 2025

Years active: 35

Average TMDB rating: 6.05

Wikidata: Q1273499

Also known as

Edmund Elias Merhige • Edmund E. Merhige

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Biography

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 He regards literature and drama as once-needed forms which are past their time and which have been superseded by film.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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