Larry Cohen
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
- Spies Like Us (1985)
- 100 Scariest Movie Moments (2004)
- 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street (2015)
- Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted (2004)
- The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird (2006)
- Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business (2020)
- Tales from the Script (2009)
- American Grindhouse (2011)
- Masters of the Grind (2023)
- Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005)
- King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2018)
- In Search of Darkness: Part II (2020)
- BaadAsssss Cinema (2002)
- Nightmares in Red, White and Blue (2009)
- Celling Out (2004)
- Bette Davis: Larger Than Life (2017)
- Special Effects (1984)
- Hollywood Rated 'R' (1997)
- Shooting the Police: Cops on Film (2006)
- In Search of Darkness (2019)