Ti West

Ti West is one of those filmmakers who makes me genuinely excited about genre cinema again. Coming out of Wilmington, Delaware — not exactly a Hollywood pipeline — he carved out a reputation as a slow-burn horror auteur who actually trusts his audience to sit with dread. The House of the Devil and The Innkeepers showed real mastery of atmosphere and patience, and then his X trilogy proved he wasn't just a nostalgia act — he's a working craftsman who writes, directs, edits, and produces his own stuff. Winning Best Director at the Sitges Film Festival in 2022 felt like the genre world officially catching up to what horror fans already knew. The fact that he also acts, mostly in his own films or his collaborator Joe Swanberg's work, gives everything a scrappy, personal feel I really respect.

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Name (English)

Ti West

Name (Japanese)

タイ・ウェスト

Reading

たい・うぇすと

Born

October 5, 1980 (age 46)

Origin

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Occupation

film director / actor / screenwriter / film editor / film producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Monkey

Awards & achievements

• 2022 Sitges Film Festival Best Director award

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%20West
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3527989

Tags

• Delaware
• film director
• actor
• screenwriter

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.