Elijah Drenner

Biography

Career Overview

Elijah Drenner has 132 screen credits in a career dating back to 2005. Signature works include Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2', American Grindhouse, Poor Little Heather. 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

• 

  Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2'
• 

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

  Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV
• 

  Against the Grain

Frequent Collaborators

• Brandon Upson (2 collaborations)
• Joe Rubin (2 collaborations)
• Oscar Becher (2 collaborations)
• Nancy Allen (1 collaborations)
• Patrick Crowley (1 collaborations)
• Jon Davison (1 collaborations)
• Galyn Görg (1 collaborations)
• Mark Irwin (1 collaborations)
• Irvin Kershner (1 collaborations)
• Tom Noonan (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