Larry Cohen

Larry Cohen

🎞 Director

Born

15 July 1941 (84)

Place of Birth

Kingston, New York, USA

Also known as

Laurence Robert Cohen, Lawrence George 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), Ce...

Filmography (40)

Masters of the Grind

Masters of the Grind

2023

In Search of Darkness: Part II

In Search of Darkness: Part II

2020

7.7
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business

Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business

2020

3.0
In Search of Darkness

In Search of Darkness

2019

7.5

The Fear is Real

2018

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen

2018

6.4
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

2017

6.0
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street

42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street

2015

7.8
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!

House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!

2013

Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell

Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell

2011

American Grindhouse

American Grindhouse

2011

6.7
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue

Nightmares in Red, White and Blue

2009

6.6
Tales from the Script

Tales from the Script

2009

6.5
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

2006

7.8

Welcome to the Big House

2006

Prohibition Opens the Floodgates

Prohibition Opens the Floodgates

2006

Hitchcocked!

Hitchcocked!

2006

6.0
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood

Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood

2006

4.0
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films

Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films

2006

Shooting the Police: Cops on Film

2006

Pick Me Up

Pick Me Up

2006

6.2
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Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

2005

6.7
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted

Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted

2004

Celling Out

2004

Making of Phone Booth

2003

8.0
BaadAsssss Cinema

BaadAsssss Cinema

2002

5.9
Hollywood Rated 'R'

Hollywood Rated 'R'

1997

4.8
Original Gangstas

Original Gangstas

1996

5.6
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As Good As Dead

As Good As Dead

1995

4.9
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The Ambulance

The Ambulance

1990

5.8
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Wicked Stepmother

Wicked Stepmother

1989

4.5
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Deadly Illusion

Deadly Illusion

1987

5.6
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A Return to Salem's Lot

A Return to Salem's Lot

1987

5.9
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It's Alive III: Island of the Alive

It's Alive III: Island of the Alive

1987

5.4
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Spies Like Us

Spies Like Us

1985

6.2
The Stuff

The Stuff

1985

6.0
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Special Effects

Special Effects

1984

4.6
Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers

1984

4.7
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Q

Q

1982

5.7
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Full Moon High

Full Moon High

1981

4.3
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