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)
- American Grindhouse (2011)
- Special Effects (1984)
- Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business (2020)
- Hollywood Rated 'R' (1997)
- BaadAsssss Cinema (2002)
- Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood (2006)
- Tales from the Script (2009)
- The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird (2006)
- In Search of Darkness: Part II (2020)
- 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street (2015)
- Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted (2004)
- In Search of Darkness (2019)
- King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2018)
- Nightmares in Red, White and Blue (2009)
- Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005)
- Bette Davis: Larger Than Life (2017)
- Masters of the Grind (2023)
- House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before! (2013)