Jake West

Jake West is a British independent film director known for his work in horror cinema and for documentaries about filmmakers, actors and the history of British cinema.

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) Xploring Xtro (2018) Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow (Severin Films, 2023)