Directing
Jay Woelfel
Born
1962-07-24 (64)
Place of birth
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Known for
Directing
Credits
48 titles
Jay Woelfel (b. July 24, 1962 in Columbus, Ohio, United States) is a writer/director of independent films, and with producer Johnnie J. Young, a partner in Young Wolf Productions. Jay Woelfel is an American filmmaker known for his work as a director, writer, composer, and editor in the horror and science fiction genres. He began his career in the late 1980s and has since been involved in various aspects of film production. Notable works include Beyond Dream's Door (1989), a psychological horror film that has garnered a cult following, and Asylum of Darkness (2017), which he wrote, directed, and scored. Woelfel's contributions to independent cinema are marked by his multifaceted roles in fi…
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3.6Rebecca Haster blames herself for the death of her parents and decides to spend sometime alone in the lakeside cottage of her parents in Rushford Lake. She meets Stan James on the road and gives a lift to the stranger. Later they become friends, while Rebecca sees supernatural events with drowned people in the lake. While searching the accidents in the library, she finds that mysterious deaths happen in the spot every thirteen years.
Ghost Lake
2004
4.1Offering only the finest amenities, the ‘TITAN 1C’ space-cruiser is considered the most luxurious star-liner ever built. Future spring-breakers on board are excited to be touring through space with some of the world’s elite. However, a sudden meteor storm smashes into the hull, and a deadly biological alien life form is let loose on the ship. Seeking a suitable host, the retrovirus successfully merges with some the passengers, transforming them into seemingly invincible predators with the “touch of death”. As the ship is destroyed, the surviving passengers crash on a remote planet, and they learn that one of them is “infected”. They must quickly band together before it has a chance to slaughter them all.
Aliens vs. Titanic
2017
3.3When the evil space queen Metaluna unleashes a giant female cyborg to decimate an animal sanctuary, 50-foot-tall mutant mamas Frida and Diedre team up to kick some electro-chick ass! not viewing at your location.
Giantess Attack vs. Mecha Fembot
2019
4.5A group of hikers led by a college professor are searching the woods for an ancient Indian burial mound. When they discover a likely site, three members of the group reveal themselves to be grave looters, and tie up the others so they can keep the valuable artefacts for themselves. In the course of ransacking the mound, one of them stumbles across a cursed crown that unleashes the mound's guardian: an invisible monster that begins attacking everyone it finds. Will anyone make it back to civilization alive?
Unseen Evil
2001
7.5No synopsis available yet.
With Criminal Intent
1995
10.0At the end of the 19th century, a man becomes obsessed with removing the small birthmark from his bride's cheek.
The Birthmark
1987
Film credits
2010s · 3 titles
4.1Offering only the finest amenities, the ‘TITAN 1C’ space-cruiser is considered the most luxurious star-liner ever built. Future spring-breakers on board are excited to be touring through space with some of the world’s elite. However, a sudden meteor storm smashes into the hull, and a deadly biological alien life form is let loose on the ship. Seeking a suitable host, the retrovirus successfully merges with some the passengers, transforming them into seemingly invincible predators with the “touch of death”. As the ship is destroyed, the surviving passengers crash on a remote planet, and they learn that one of them is “infected”. They must quickly band together before it has a chance to slaughter them all.
Aliens vs. Titanic
2017
3.3When the evil space queen Metaluna unleashes a giant female cyborg to decimate an animal sanctuary, 50-foot-tall mutant mamas Frida and Diedre team up to kick some electro-chick ass! not viewing at your location.
Giantess Attack vs. Mecha Fembot
2019
5.2Two unemployable actresses become real superheroes thanks to twin space fairies.
Giantess Attack
2017
2000s · 2 titles
3.6Rebecca Haster blames herself for the death of her parents and decides to spend sometime alone in the lakeside cottage of her parents in Rushford Lake. She meets Stan James on the road and gives a lift to the stranger. Later they become friends, while Rebecca sees supernatural events with drowned people in the lake. While searching the accidents in the library, she finds that mysterious deaths happen in the spot every thirteen years.
Ghost Lake
2004
3.0Sarah McKinnis, a software engineer at a weapons factory, is accidentally shot in the head by a new type of riot control pistol. From that moment, her life becomes a nightmare. People appear to her as hideous aliens but she's the only one that can see these creatures. She tries to warn her normal looking supervisor, Ed Devon, but the evil space creatures massacre everyone at her laboratory. Sarah escapes with the pistol. The aliens kill her sister in retaliation. She wages a lone war against the extra-terrestrial menace, shooting and killing the army of hideous, green skinned monsters from space. But, how can one woman stop this hidden invasion from the stars?
Psychon Invaders
2006
1990s · 1 titles
Behind the camera
3.6Rebecca Haster blames herself for the death of her parents and decides to spend sometime alone in the lakeside cottage of her parents in Rushford Lake. She meets Stan James on the road and gives a lift to the stranger. Later they become friends, while Rebecca sees supernatural events with drowned people in the lake. While searching the accidents in the library, she finds that mysterious deaths happen in the spot every thirteen years.
Ghost Lake
2004
3.6Rebecca Haster blames herself for the death of her parents and decides to spend sometime alone in the lakeside cottage of her parents in Rushford Lake. She meets Stan James on the road and gives a lift to the stranger. Later they become friends, while Rebecca sees supernatural events with drowned people in the lake. While searching the accidents in the library, she finds that mysterious deaths happen in the spot every thirteen years.
Ghost Lake
2004
4.5A group of hikers led by a college professor are searching the woods for an ancient Indian burial mound. When they discover a likely site, three members of the group reveal themselves to be grave looters, and tie up the others so they can keep the valuable artefacts for themselves. In the course of ransacking the mound, one of them stumbles across a cursed crown that unleashes the mound's guardian: an invisible monster that begins attacking everyone it finds. Will anyone make it back to civilization alive?
Unseen Evil
2001
7.5No synopsis available yet.
With Criminal Intent
1995
10.0At the end of the 19th century, a man becomes obsessed with removing the small birthmark from his bride's cheek.
The Birthmark
1987
3.9In a return to the groundbreaking original film's premise, Jack Deth is back - traveling back in time and into the body of his own daughter, Josephine, on a mission to save her life and save the world from the most lethal Trancers yet. Jack/Jo must adapt and survive being a girl while avoiding many assassination attempts by more powerful and dangerous zombie-like Trancers than he's ever faced before.
Trancers 6: Life After Deth
2002
4.8Mental patient Dwight Stroud escapes from an asylum and is mistaken for a motivational speaker named Artemis Finch who has money and women at his command. Dwight accepts the craziness of the situation, but as strange faceless figures begin to hunt him down, Dwight must deal with an escalating spiral of supernatural danger and hallucinations.
Asylum of Darkness
2012
4.8Mental patient Dwight Stroud escapes from an asylum and is mistaken for a motivational speaker named Artemis Finch who has money and women at his command. Dwight accepts the craziness of the situation, but as strange faceless figures begin to hunt him down, Dwight must deal with an escalating spiral of supernatural danger and hallucinations.
Asylum of Darkness
2012
3.7Trapped in a forgotten amusement park, a young woman (Kristy) finds herself terrorized by the living memories of the park. She must break free from the park's grasp before she becomes its next victim.
Closed for the Season
2010
3.7Trapped in a forgotten amusement park, a young woman (Kristy) finds herself terrorized by the living memories of the park. She must break free from the park's grasp before she becomes its next victim.
Closed for the Season
2010
3.8A woman kidnaps her husband's mistress and tells the mistress two horror stories involving evil things.
Things
1993
3.8A woman kidnaps her husband's mistress and tells the mistress two horror stories involving evil things.
Things
1993
5.4On a hiking trip in the Italian Alps, James discovers an ancient burial cave filled with gladiator artefacts. He becomes possessed by the spirit of Tyranus, a demon gladiator, and goes on a killing spree to revive the true spirit of Demonicus. A professor, Gina, and her students are to be the sacrifices to the demon Tyranus. Can they outwit Demonicus before becoming offerings to the evil god?
Demonicus
2001
5.4On a hiking trip in the Italian Alps, James discovers an ancient burial cave filled with gladiator artefacts. He becomes possessed by the spirit of Tyranus, a demon gladiator, and goes on a killing spree to revive the true spirit of Demonicus. A professor, Gina, and her students are to be the sacrifices to the demon Tyranus. Can they outwit Demonicus before becoming offerings to the evil god?
Demonicus
2001
4.6A tomb raider reawakens an ancient female mummy who can only stay alive and grow in power by having sex.
Sex Files: Ancient Desires
2000
NRA young man loses his grip on reality and begins seeing a sinister man in his home.
HE!
1988
NRA young man loses his grip on reality and begins seeing a sinister man in his home.
HE!
1988
7.2An architect witnesses a brutal murder in a small Texas town.
Silhouette
1990
6.0Ben Dobbs is a lonely college student who has never had dreams of any kind. This all changes for Ben and he start having a series of sequential and terrifying nightmares that become true in his waking life. As he reaches out for help, he is also expanding the net his nightmare demon is spreading for new victims. Ben’s challenge is to survive this new surrealistic world Beyond Dream’s Door.
Beyond Dream's Door
1989
6.0Ben Dobbs is a lonely college student who has never had dreams of any kind. This all changes for Ben and he start having a series of sequential and terrifying nightmares that become true in his waking life. As he reaches out for help, he is also expanding the net his nightmare demon is spreading for new victims. Ben’s challenge is to survive this new surrealistic world Beyond Dream’s Door.
Beyond Dream's Door
1989
No synopsis available yet.
Angel of Fear
1986
No synopsis available yet.
Angel of Fear
1986
2.0Short film by Jay Woelfel (Beyond Dream's Door)
At the Door of Darkness
1983
NRThis 1983 short film by Jay Woelfel served as the inspiration for his 1988 low-budget cult classic, Beyond Dream's Door.
Beyond Dream's Door
1983
NRHorror short.
The Escape
1980
NRHorror short.
The Escape
1980
NRA boy is attacked by the socks that he owns but never wears.
The Satanic Socks
1980
NRA boy is attacked by the socks that he owns but never wears.
The Satanic Socks
1980
NRA salesman stops at an old inn. At nightfall, he finds himself wandering around in search of the mysterious young woman who's been rapping at his door.
Come to Me Softly
1988
NRA salesman stops at an old inn. At nightfall, he finds himself wandering around in search of the mysterious young woman who's been rapping at his door.
Come to Me Softly
1988
7.0Danger faces unsuspecting tourists in Las Vegas as Colonel Nelson goes mad when he is accidentally electrocuted by the very super secret U.S. military tank he is testing, Iron Thunder. He now believes he is in the middle of an actual war and the city of glittering lights is his target. In a desperate attempt to stop him from using the state of the art offensive and defensive technology on board, the head of the Iron Thunder project sends out a Special Forces team, headed by woman who has to deal with a crew that has its own ulterior agendas. Following Nelson's trail of destruction across the desert, they face off in a spectacular battle.
Iron Thunder
1998
7.0Danger faces unsuspecting tourists in Las Vegas as Colonel Nelson goes mad when he is accidentally electrocuted by the very super secret U.S. military tank he is testing, Iron Thunder. He now believes he is in the middle of an actual war and the city of glittering lights is his target. In a desperate attempt to stop him from using the state of the art offensive and defensive technology on board, the head of the Iron Thunder project sends out a Special Forces team, headed by woman who has to deal with a crew that has its own ulterior agendas. Following Nelson's trail of destruction across the desert, they face off in a spectacular battle.
Iron Thunder
1998
NRWhen a boy and girl run away from home, his funds quickly dwindle as she's haunted by the ghost of her dead mother.
The Shadows of Summer
1984
NRWhen a boy and girl run away from home, his funds quickly dwindle as she's haunted by the ghost of her dead mother.
The Shadows of Summer
1984
Jacob and friends find being back from war makes the battle for Wellness the challenge of a lifetime. They face symptoms of PTSD, relationships and healing as Veterans with honor.
Jacob's Honor
2017
8.0An L.A. cop shoots another officer in self-defense and tries to clear his name.
Public Enemy
1998
8.0An L.A. cop shoots another officer in self-defense and tries to clear his name.
Public Enemy
1998
Horror short.
Revenge of the Werepoodle
1981
Horror short.
Revenge of the Werepoodle
1981


