Jake West

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Jake West
Born1972 (age 5051)
Occupation(s) Director, producer, writer

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.[ citation needed ]

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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' [1] by British comic book creator Dan Schaffer, who is known for Dogwitch and The Scribbler . [2] The movie was released in 2009.

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References

  1. Doghouse review, Time Out, June 2009
  2. "Jake West Takes on Multi-Genre 'Scribbler'". BloodyDisgusting.