Larry Cohen
Directing
- Born:
- 1941-07-15
- Died:
- 2019-03-23
- Place of birth:
- Kingston, New York, USA
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
Filmography
Masters of the Grind
In Search of Darkness: Part II
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
In Search of Darkness
The Fear Is Real
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell
American Grindhouse
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
Tales from the Script
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Welcome to the Big House
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
Hitchcocked!
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
100 Scariest Movie Moments
Celling Out
Dialing Up "Cellular"
Making of Phone Booth
BaadAsssss Cinema
Hollywood Rated 'R'
Spies Like Us
Special Effects