Jake West

Jake West (born 1972) 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 (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)
 * Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow (Severin Films, 2023)