Elijah Drenner

Career Overview

Elijah Drenner has 132 screen credits in a career dating back to 2005. Signature works include That Guy Dick Miller, Vegas Needs a New King: The Making of Six-String Samurai, The Fear Is Real. 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

Frequent Collaborators

Joe Dante (2 collaborations)
Jon Davison (2 collaborations)
Dick Miller (1 collaborations)
Lainie Miller (1 collaborations)
Allan Arkush (1 collaborations)
Belinda Balaski (1 collaborations)
Roger Corman (1 collaborations)
Julie Corman (1 collaborations)
Fred Dekker (1 collaborations)
Ernest R. Dickerson (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