Elijah Drenner

Biography

Career Overview

Elijah Drenner has 132 screen credits in a career dating back to 2005. Signature works include American Grindhouse, Poor Little Heather, Behind the Mitchell Brothers Film Group: Preserving a Legacy. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Directing

Gender

male

Known Credits

132

Known For

• 

  American Grindhouse
• Poor Little Heather
• Behind the Mitchell Brothers Film Group: Preserving a Legacy
• 

  Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV
• 

  Against the Grain
• 

  Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'

Frequent Collaborators

• Dan Greene (4 collaborations)
• Steven Morowitz (3 collaborations)
• Joe Rubin (3 collaborations)
• Oscar Becher (3 collaborations)
• Calum Waddell (2 collaborations)
• Brandon Upson (2 collaborations)
• Ryan Emerson (2 collaborations)
• Andy Goldenberg (1 collaborations)
• Jeff Broadstreet (1 collaborations)
• Ingo Jucht (1 collaborations)

Credits

• directing (44 credits)

  • Poor Little Heather

    director

    directing
    2026
  • Behind the Mitchell Brothers Film Group: Preserving a Legacy

    director

    directing
    2025
  • Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV

    director

    directing
    2024
  • Against the Grain

    director

    directing
    2023
  • Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'

    director

    directing
    2022
  • Under the Skin: The Making of 'Ticks'

    director

    directing
    2021
  • Outside the Law: The Scanner Cop Revolution

    director

    directing
    2021
  • Vegas Needs a New King: The Making of Six-String Samurai

    director

    directing
    2021
  • The Beastmaster Chronicles

    director

    directing
    2020
  • Hollywood of the North

    director

    directing
    2020
  • The Stranger in Your Lover's Eyes

    director

    directing
    2018
  • The Fear Is Real

    director

    directing
    2018
  • A Letter to Castro

    director

    directing
    2017
  • Crazy for Lynn Lowry

    director

    directing
    2017
  • Romero Was Here: Locating The Crazies

    director

    directing
    2017
  • The Killing Floor

    director

    directing
    2017
  • Finding Harryhausen with Dennis Muren

    director

    directing
    2017
  • The Secrets of Sinbad: Phil Tippett on Ray Harryhausen

    director

    directing
    2017
  • Listen to the Light: The Making of 'Brain Damage'

    director

    directing
    2017
  • Habeas Corpus: The Making of 'Psycho Cop Returns'

    director

    directing
    2017
  • Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2'

    director

    directing
    2017
  • Hickory Dickory Doc

    director

    directing
    2017
  • Blood Perspectives

    director

    directing
    2016
  • Regional Bloodshed

    director

    directing
    2016
  • The Gore The Merrier

    director

    directing
    2016
  • The Shocking Truth!

    director

    directing
    2016
  • Garage Punk Gore

    director

    directing
    2016
  • Montag Speaks!

    director

    directing
    2016
  • How Herschell Found His Niche

    director

    directing
    2016
  • My Microwave Massacre Memoirs

    director

    directing
    2016
  • Tides and Nightmares

    director

    directing
    2016
  • Fighting Against the Wind: Making 'the American Dreamer'

    director

    directing
    2015
  • Videoblivion

    director

    directing
    2015
  • Lord John

    director

    directing
    2015
  • The Tao of Buckaroo

    director

    directing
    2015
  • An Exercise In Terror: The Making Of 'Death Spa'

    director

    directing
    2014
  • Flesh, Blood & Censorship

    director

    directing
    2014
  • That Guy Dick Miller

    director

    directing
    2014
  • The Ephemerol Diaries: An Interview with Stephen Lack

    director

    directing
    2012
  • From Manila with Love

    director

    directing
    2011
  • American Grindhouse

    director

    directing
    2011
  • Fulci in the House: The Italian Master of Splatter

    director

    directing
    2009
  • Spider Stravinsky: The Cinema Sounds of Ronald Stein

    director

    directing
    2007
  • The Hatching of Spider Baby

    director

    directing
    2007

• writing (5 credits)

  • Behind the Mitchell Brothers Film Group: Preserving a Legacy

    writer

    writing
    2025
  • That Guy Dick Miller

    writer

    writing
    2014
  • American Grindhouse

    writer

    writing
    2011
  • Fulci in the House: The Italian Master of Splatter

    writer

    writing
    2009
  • The Hatching of Spider Baby

    writer

    writing
    2007

• production (33 credits)

  • First Comes the Word: Richard Brooks and the Making of 'Looking for Mr. Goodbar'

    producer

    production
    2024
  • Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV

    producer

    production
    2024
  • Formicidae Sinfonia: The Music and Sounds of 'Phase IV'

    producer

    production
    2024
  • Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'

    producer

    production
    2022
  • Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

    associate producer

    production
    2021
  • Hollywood of the North

    producer

    production
    2020
  • Cutting 'Hair'

    producer

    production
    2020
  • Making Chance Work: Choreographing 'Hair'

    producer

    production
    2020
  • 'Hair' Style

    producer

    production
    2020
  • The Stranger in Your Lover's Eyes

    producer

    production
    2018
  • I No Longer Belong: The Rise and Fall of Walter Wanger

    producer

    production
    2018
  • The Difference Between You and Me

    producer

    production
    2018
  • Burden of Faith: Tarkovsky's Final Sacrifice

    producer

    production
    2018
  • A Letter to Castro

    producer

    production
    2017
  • Crazy for Lynn Lowry

    producer

    production
    2017
  • Romero Was Here: Locating The Crazies

    producer

    production
    2017
  • The Killing Floor

    producer

    production
    2017
  • Finding Harryhausen with Dennis Muren

    producer

    production
    2017
  • The Catastrophe of Success: Stuart Gordon and the Organic Theater

    producer

    production
    2017
  • Theater of Blood with Mark Nutter

    producer

    production
    2017
  • The Secrets of Sinbad: Phil Tippett on Ray Harryhausen

    producer

    production
    2017
  • Hickory Dickory Doc

    producer

    production
    2017
  • The Shocking Truth!

    producer

    production
    2016
  • Garage Punk Gore

    producer

    production
    2016
  • Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?

    producer

    production
    2016
  • Fighting Against the Wind: Making 'the American Dreamer'

    producer

    production
    2015
  • Carpenter on Quatermass

    producer

    production
    2014
  • An Exercise In Terror: The Making Of 'Death Spa'

    producer

    production
    2014
  • That Guy Dick Miller

    producer

    production
    2014
  • The Ephemerol Diaries: An Interview with Stephen Lack

    producer

    production
    2012
  • Different From the Others: A Legacy Preserved

    co-producer

    production
    2012
  • From Manila with Love

    producer

    production
    2011
  • American Grindhouse

    producer

    production
    2011

• editing (43 credits)

  • Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV

    editor

    editing
    2024
  • Formicidae Sinfonia: The Music and Sounds of 'Phase IV'

    editor

    editing
    2024
  • Against the Grain

    editor

    editing
    2023
  • Deep Inside Vinegar Syndrome

    editor

    editing
    2023
  • Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'

    editor

    editing
    2022
  • Inhuman Experiments: The Making of "The Kindred"

    editor

    editing
    2021
  • Under the Skin: The Making of 'Ticks'

    editor

    editing
    2021
  • Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

    additional editor

    editing
    2021
  • Vegas Needs a New King: The Making of Six-String Samurai

    editor

    editing
    2021
  • Hollywood of the North

    editor

    editing
    2020
  • Cutting 'Hair'

    editor

    editing
    2020
  • The Tribe Remembers

    editor

    editing
    2020
  • Making Chance Work: Choreographing 'Hair'

    editor

    editing
    2020
  • 'Hair' Style

    editor

    editing
    2020
  • Blood, Sand, and Fire: The Making of The Hills Have Eyes Part II

    editor

    editing
    2019
  • A Face in the Dark: Diane Baker on 'Mirage'

    editor

    editing
    2019
  • The Fear Is Real

    editor

    editing
    2018
  • The Difference Between You and Me

    editor

    editing
    2018
  • Burden of Faith: Tarkovsky's Final Sacrifice

    editor

    editing
    2018
  • A Letter to Castro

    editor

    editing
    2017
  • Romero Was Here: Locating The Crazies

    editor

    editing
    2017
  • The Killing Floor

    editor

    editing
    2017
  • Finding Harryhausen with Dennis Muren

    editor

    editing
    2017
  • The Catastrophe of Success: Stuart Gordon and the Organic Theater

    editor

    editing
    2017
  • Theater of Blood with Mark Nutter

    editor

    editing
    2017
  • The Secrets of Sinbad: Phil Tippett on Ray Harryhausen

    editor

    editing
    2017
  • Listen to the Light: The Making of 'Brain Damage'

    editor

    editing
    2017
  • Hickory Dickory Doc

    editor

    editing
    2017
  • Blood Perspectives

    editor

    editing
    2016
  • The Shocking Truth!

    editor

    editing
    2016
  • Garage Punk Gore

    editor

    editing
    2016
  • How Herschell Found His Niche

    editor

    editing
    2016
  • Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western?

    editor

    editing
    2016
  • Fighting Against the Wind: Making 'the American Dreamer'

    editor

    editing
    2015
  • Kiss Kiss Fingerbang

    editor

    editing
    2015
  • Carpenter on Quatermass

    editor

    editing
    2014
  • An Exercise In Terror: The Making Of 'Death Spa'

    editor

    editing
    2014
  • That Guy Dick Miller

    editor

    editing
    2014
  • The Ephemerol Diaries: An Interview with Stephen Lack

    editor

    editing
    2012
  • Different From the Others: A Legacy Preserved

    editor

    editing
    2012
  • From Manila with Love

    editor

    editing
    2011
  • American Grindhouse

    editor

    editing
    2011
  • Fulci in the House: The Italian Master of Splatter

    editor

    editing
    2009

• crew (1 credits)

  • The War in Heaven

    post-production manager

    crew
    2023

• visual effects (1 credits)

  • Hollywood of the North

    animation

    visual effects
    2020

• actors (3 credits)

  • Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Tron Wayne Gacy

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • Planetfall

    Carson Fletcher

    actor

    actors
    2005

• sound (1 credits)

  • American Grindhouse

    sound editor

    sound
    2011

• camera (1 credits)

  • Blood River

    epk producer

    camera
    2009