Jack Perez

{{short description|American film director}}

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|birth_place=United States

|nationality=American

|occupation=Film director, screenwriter

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Jack Perez is an American film and television director, screenwriter and film professor.{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/106095/Jack-Perez |title=Jack Perez - About This Person |access-date=19 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080115040539/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/106095/Jack-Perez |archive-date=15 January 2008 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=2008 |url-status=dead }} He directed the comedy-thriller Some Guy Who Kills People{{cite news |last=Quinn|first=Anthony |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/some-guy-who-kills-people-jack-perez-94mins-15-8199145.html |title=Some Guy Who Kills People, Jack Perez |newspaper=The Independent |date=5 October 2012 |access-date=19 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507043948/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/some-guy-who-kills-people-jack-perez-94mins-15-8199145.html |archive-date=7 May 2013 |url-status=live }} executive produced by John Landis.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.starburstmagazine.com/features/interviews/3688-interview-jack-perez-director-of-some-guy-who-kills-people |title=Interview: Jack Perez, Director of SOME GUY WHO KILLS PEOPLE |magazine=Starburst |first=Paul |last=Mount |date=15 October 2012 |access-date=19 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508210408/http://www.starburstmagazine.com/features/interviews/3688-interview-jack-perez-director-of-some-guy-who-kills-people |archive-date=8 May 2013 |url-status=live }} He also directed Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus, whose trailer went viral,{{cite web |url=http://www.schlockmania.com/jack-perez-int-part-1/ |title=SHARKS, SEQUELS AND SHEMP-ING: An Interview With Jack Perez, Part 1 |website=Schlockmania! |date=4 July 2012 |access-date=19 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530223811/http://www.schlockmania.com/jack-perez-int-part-1/ |archive-date=30 May 2013 |url-status=live }} and was named by Yahoo! as one of the top 10 trailers of 2009, with more trailer views than Avatar.{{cite web |url=http://collider.com/yahoo-movies-lists-the-10-most-watched-trailers-of-2009/13264/ |title=Yahoo! Movies Lists the 10 Most-Watched Trailers of 2009 |first=Matt |last=Goldberg |website=Collider |date=28 December 2009 |access-date=19 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228101634/http://collider.com/yahoo-movies-lists-the-10-most-watched-trailers-of-2009/13264/ |archive-date=28 December 2013 |url-status=live }}

His first feature film, "America’s Deadliest Home Video" (1991) was a groundbreaker in the found-footage field - an ahead-of-its-time application of the vérité-video form to the horror/crime genre.{{cite magazine |last=Gingold |first=Michael |title=DVD Review: America's Deadliest HomeVideo |magazine=Fangoria |url=https://www.fangoria.com/original/dvd-review-americas-deadliest-home-video/ |access-date=2019-05-10 |date=2019-05-10 }}

He lives in Portland, Oregon.