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
Special Effects
(Journalist (uncredited))
Hollywood Rated 'R'
(Self)
The Fear is Real
(Self)
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
(Self)
Tales from the Script
(Self)
BaadAsssss Cinema
(Self)
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
(Self)
American Grindhouse
(Himself)
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
(Self)
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
(Self)
Welcome to the Big House
(Self)
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
(Self)
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
(Himself)
Hitchcocked!
(Self)
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
(Self)
Spies Like Us
(Ace Tomato Agent)
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
(Self)
In Search of Darkness
(Self)
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
(Self)
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
(Self)
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
(Self)
Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
(Self)
In Search of Darkness: Part II
(Self)
Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
(Self)
Masters of the Grind
(Self)
100 Scariest Movie Moments
(Self)
Phone Booth
(Screenplay)
Black Caesar
(Producer)
Black Caesar
(Writer)
Black Caesar
(Director)
It's Alive
(Screenplay)
God Told Me To
(Director)
God Told Me To
(Screenplay)
God Told Me To
(Producer)
Bone
(Director)
Bone
(Writer)
Return of the Seven
(Screenplay)
It's Alive
(Writer)
It's Alive
(Producer)
It Lives Again
(Producer)
It Lives Again
(Director)
It Lives Again
(Writer)
It's Alive
(Director)
Original Gangstas
(Director)
Q
(Writer)
Q
(Director)
A Return to Salem's Lot
(Director)
Captivity
(Writer)
Wicked Stepmother
(Director)
Bone
(Producer)
The Stuff
(Director)
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
(Director)
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
(Screenplay)
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
(Writer)
Connected
(Original Story)
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
(Story)
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
(Screenplay)
El Condor
(Screenplay)
Messages Deleted
(Writer)
The Ambulance
(Writer)
The Ambulance
(Director)
Hell Up In Harlem
(Director)
Hell Up In Harlem
(Screenplay)
Special Effects
(Director)
Perfect Strangers
(Writer)
Perfect Strangers
(Director)
I Deal In Danger
(Writer)
Full Moon High
(Director)
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
(Director)
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
(Writer)
See China and Die
(Writer)
See China and Die
(Director)
Scream Baby Scream
(Screenplay)
Scream Baby Scream
(Story)
As Good As Dead
(Writer)
Deadly Illusion
(Writer)
Deadly Illusion
(Director)
As Good As Dead
(Director)
Calling Doctor Storm, M.D.
(Writer)
Invasion of Privacy
(Writer)
The Case of the Baltimore Girls
(Writer)
As Good As Dead
(Producer)
In Broad Daylight
(Writer)
The Stuff
(Writer)
The Stuff
(Executive Producer)
Full Moon High
(Screenplay)
Wicked Stepmother
(Writer)
Scandalous
(Story)
Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge
(Writer)
Special Effects
(Writer)
Body Snatchers
(Screenstory)
The Invaders
(Characters)
The Defenders: Choice of Evils
(Story)
The Defenders: Choice of Evils
(Teleplay)
Misbegotten
(Screenplay)
Maniac Cop
(Producer)
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice
(Teleplay)
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
(Characters)
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
(Co-Producer)
Man on the Outside
(Writer)
Pick Me Up
(Director)
Hell Up In Harlem
(Producer)
Best Seller
(Writer)
I, the Jury
(Screenplay)
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
(Story)
Maniac Cop
(Writer)
Cellular
(Story)
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave
(Teleplay)
Maniac Cop 2
(Writer)
Maniac Cop 2
(Producer)
Women of San Quentin
(Story)
The Gambler, The Girl and The Gunslinger
(Writer)
The Legend of Custer
(Idea)
Uncle Sam
(Writer)
Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge
(Writer)
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
(Characters)
It Lives Again
(Characters)
It's Alive
(Characters)
The Manipulator
(Set Designer)
The American Success Company
(Screenplay)
Q
(Producer)
A Return to Salem's Lot
(Executive Producer)
Full Moon High
(Producer)
Wicked Stepmother
(Executive Producer)
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
(Producer)
The Ex
(Screenplay)
The Tourist
(Original Story)
Guilty as Sin
(Writer)
A Return to Salem's Lot
(Screenplay)
A Return to Salem's Lot
(Story)
The Expert
(Writer)
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
(Executive Producer)
Masters of Horror
(Director)
The Fugitive
(Story)
The Fugitive
(Writer)
The Defenders
(Writer)
Cool Million
(Writer)
Cool Million
(Story)
Branded
(Creator)
Cool Million
(Creator)
Coronet Blue
(Creator)
The Invaders
(Creator)