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Larry Cohen

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​

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Known For

  • Black Caesar
  • God Told Me To
  • Bone
  • It's Alive
  • It Lives Again
  • Original Gangstas
  • Q
  • A Return to Salem's Lot
  • Wicked Stepmother
  • The Stuff
  • It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
  • The Ambulance
  • Hell Up In Harlem
  • Special Effects
  • Perfect Strangers
  • Full Moon High
  • The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
  • See China and Die
  • Deadly Illusion
  • As Good as Dead
  • Pick Me Up