Jake West


Jake West is a British film director, known mostly for his horror films and for a series of documentaries looking at film censorship and interviewing well-known directors, actors and industry figures.

Biography

West's first feature film was Razor Blade Smile, released in 1998. His second film, released in 2005, was Evil Aliens, described as a 'British slapstick horror-comedy', in the tradition of films such as Braindead, House, and Evil Dead. It was the first full-length British horror film to be filmed using Sony HD cameras and contains over a hundred digital effect shots as well as many conventional gory special effects.
Following the success of Evil Aliens, West directed a made-for-TV sequel to the 1988 film Pumpkinhead. Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes was co-written by West with Barbara Werner. The film was shot in Romania for the American Sci Fi Channel.
His next film Doghouse was a horror-comedy starring Danny Dyer, Noel Clarke and Stephen Graham, whose 'magic ingredient' was a 'sly script' by British comic book creator Dan Schaffer, who is known for Dogwitch and The Scribbler. The movie was released in 2009.

Filmography

  • Club Death
  • Razor Blade Smile
  • Whacked
  • Evil Aliens
  • Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes
  • Doghouse
  • Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape
  • The ABCs of Death
  • Video Nasties: Draconian Days
  • Xploring Xtro
  • ''Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow''