E. Elias Merhige Archives

Begotten (1990)

Rating: ★★

Aug 12, 2014Surrealism/Death and Rebirth Among the Gods

The first film from E. Elias Merhige, subsequent director of Shadow of the Vampire. An unfathomably strange film in the Eraserhead vein about gods disemboweling themselves, rebirthing and being beset upon by nomads.

Director: E. Elias Merhige

Category: Fantasy

12 August 20147 September 2025 by Roog

Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

Rating: ★★★★

Jan 19, 2001Making Nosferatu with a Real Vampire

This comes with the clever and uniquely original premise that asks what would happen if during the making of the 1922 Nosferatu actor Max Schreck turned out to be a real vampire

Director: E. Elias Merhige

Actors: John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Cary Elwes, Udo Kier, …

Category: Horror

19 January 20011 February 2025 by Roog

Suspect Zero (2004)

Rating: ★★

Oct 31, 2005Serial Killer Thriller

Serial killer thriller with Aaron Eckhart on the trail of an ambiguous Ben Kingsley. This offers some interesting twists but fails in the core issue of developing it into an absorbing thriller plot

Director: E. Elias Merhige

Actors: Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, Carrie-Ann Moss, Harry Lennix

Category: Horror

31 October 200525 January 2020 by Roog