Larry Cohen
Biography
Lawrence George Cohen (July 15, 1941 – March 23, 2019) was an American screenwriter, producer, and director of film and television, best known as a B-movie auteur of horror and science fiction films — often containing police procedural and satirical elements — during the 1970s and 1980s, such as It's Alive (1974), God Told Me To (1976), It Lives Again (1978), The Stuff (1985) and A Return to Salem's Lot (1987). After that, he concentrated mainly on screenwriting, including Phone Booth (2002), Cellular (2004) and Captivity (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Larry Cohen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Top 28 Movies
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
2006
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
2006
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
2015
Tales from the Script
2009
Hitchcocked!
2006
Hollywood Rated 'R'
1997
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
2006
Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell
2011
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
2018
Masters of the Grind
2023
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
2017
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
2020
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
Spies Like Us
1985
In Search of Darkness: Part II
2020
Special Effects
1984
In Search of Darkness
2019
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
2009
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
2013
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
2004
American Grindhouse
2011
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006