Jake West

• Name — Jake West • Born — 1972 • Birthplace — United Kingdom • Occupation — Director, producer, writer

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. He next film is a shark thriller called White, which stars Katherine McNamara and Kate Beckinsale.

• Club Death (1994) • Razor Blade Smile (1998) • Whacked (2002) • Evil Aliens (2005) • Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006) • Doghouse (2009) • Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (2010) • The ABCs of Death (2012) • Video Nasties: Draconian Days (2014) • Xploring Xtro (2018) • Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow (Severin Films, 2023) • White