Larry Cohen

Larry Cohen

Date of Birth: 15 Jul 1938

Country: USA

Biography: An independent maverick who got his start in studio-based television, he is best known for inventive low-budget horror films that combine scathing social commentary with the requisite scares and occasional laughs.

Total Credits at Criticker: 9 (Actor), 20 (Director), 48 (Writer), 1 (Creator)

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    Cellular
    A random wrong number on his cell phone sends a young man into a high-stakes race against time to save a woman's life. (New Line Cinema)
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    Phone Booth
    Set entirely within and around the confines of a New York City phone booth, this film follows Stu Shepard (Farrell), a low-rent media consultant who is trapped after being told by a caller - a serial killer with a sniper rifle - that he'll be shot dead if he hangs up. (20th Century Fox)
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    Q: The Winged Serpent
    New York police are bemused by a spate of reports of a giant flying lizard which has been spotted around the rooftops of New York... (imdb)
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    The Stuff
    Weird yummy goo erupts from the earth and is discovered by a couple of miners. They taste it and decide to market it because it tastes so good... (imdb)
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    Maniac Cop
    In New York, a man in a cop's uniform starts killing people for no apparent reason. (imdb)
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    God Told Me To
    A detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."
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    Full Moon High
    A teenager (Adam Arkin) becomes a werewolf after a family vacation in Transylvania. (imdb)
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    It\
    The Davies expecting a baby which turns out to be a monster with the nasty habit to kill when it's scared. And it's easily scared... (imdb)
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    Body Snatchers
    A teenage girl and her father discover alien clones are replacing humans on a remote U.S. military base in Alabama. (imdb)
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    Bone
    A thief breaks into the home of a wealthy, happily married Beverly Hills couple. He soon finds out, though, that the couple is neither as wealthy as he thought they were and are not as happily married as they appeared. (imdb)
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    Black Caesar
    Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in Harlem, New York. (imdb)
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    Hell Up in Harlem
    A gangster in Harlem must rescue his ex-wife, who has been kidnapped by the Mafia. (imdb)
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    The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
    The files that escaped the shredder have become an incredible motion picture. From the Kennedys to Martin Luther King. From cab drivers to Congressmen. From housewives to hostesses. He had something on 58 million people. It was all in his files. Now you can see how he used it.
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    It\
    Eugene and Jody Scott are paid a surprise visit by a stranger who turns out to be Frank Davies, the father of the original monster baby from the previous film. Davies warns the couple that their unborn child may be similarly at risk, and thereby in mortal danger from a nationwide task force dedicated to destroying the monster infants.
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    Special Effects
    A director makes a movie based on a murder he committed. (imdb)
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    Perfect Strangers
    A hit-man tries to seduce the mother of a child who witnessed his most recent kill.
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    It\
    The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cynicism and exploitation of the children by the legal system and the media, the man responsible for them leads an expedition to the island to free them. (imdb)
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    A Return to Salem\
    A man and his son vacation to the quiet vampire populated town of Salem's Lot. (imdb)
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    Deadly Illusion
    A detective is framed for a murder he didn't commit. (imdb)
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    Wicked Stepmother
    A mother/daughter pair of witches descend on a yuppie family's home and cause havoc, one at a time since they share one body & the other must live in a cat the rest of the time. Now it's up to the family's mother, a private detective and a suspended police officer to try and stop the witches. (imdb)
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    The Ambulance
    Josh Baker meets a very special woman, Cheryl, in the streets of New York. Suddenly she collapses, and she's picked up by an ambulance. When Josh wants to visit her in the hospital, it appears that she hasn't been admitted in the hospital. (imdb)
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    As Good as Dead
    Susan switches identities with her new friend Nicole, so that Nicole can pay for her medical bills with Susan's insurance. Then Susan finds herself trapped in her new identity when Nicole ends up dead under questionable circumstances. (imdb)
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    Uncle Sam
    Uncle Sam (1997) - Direct-to-Video
    Desert Storm vet who was killed in combat rises from the grave on July Fourth, to kill the unpatriotic citizens of his hometown, after some teens burn an American flag over his burial site. (imdb)
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    Captivity
    Top cover girl and fashion model, Jennifer Tree has it all - beauty, fame, money and power. She is loved and adored and sought after. But someone out there wants her in the worst way. Out alone at a charity event in Soho, Jennifer is drugged and taken. Held captive in a cell, Jennifer is subjected to a series of terrifying, life-threatening tortures that could only be conceived by a twisted, sadistic mind. (After Dark Films)
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    Guilty as Sin
    A man accused of murdering his wife approaches a hotshot female criminal attorney to take his case. The man is a self-professed womaniser, and his alleged motive would be the large sum of money his wife left him. The attorney begins to have second thoughts about representing him... (imdb)
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    Best Seller
    A hitman wants a cop-turned-author to write a book about him that exposes his employers.
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    Columbo
    Columbo (1971) - TV Series
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    Return of the Magnificent Seven
    Chico one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets Vin another member of The Seven. They find four other men and they go to help Chico. (imdb)
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    Shootout in a One-Dog Town
    A small-town banker is forced to protect his town against a vicious gang of bank robbers determined to get the $200,000 stored in his bank. (imdb)
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    Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
    A female cop is gunned down and wrongly accused of using excessive force in a hostage rescue attempt. Maniac cop returns from the dead once more to seek revenge, destroying everthing and anyone that stands in his way. (imdb)
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    Maniac Cop 2
    Officer Matt Cordell, the undead cop, returns from the grave. Again. This time he is after the criminals who murdered him in the prison, and he is not doing that because he wants to forgive them... (imdb)
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    Scream Baby Scream
    A psycho artist kidnaps models and slices up their faces to create new mutant models. (imdb)
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    I, the Jury
    An old friend of a private detective is murdered. The detective, Mike Hammer, will make every effort to find out the killer. At each step he does, there is someone taking advantage of his progress. (imdb)
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    The Ex
    Even though Deidre (Yancy Butler) is already certified insane, she stalks her ex-husband David (Nick Mancuso) and his family. Intent on wrecking their lives, Deidre kills all in her way in route to her ultimate doom. (imdb)
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    El Condor
    Luke, an escaped convict, and Jaroo, a loner gold prospector, team up with a band of Apache Indians in 19th century Mexico to capture a large, heavily armed fortress for the millions -- or billions -- of dollars in gold that are rumored to be stored within. (imdb)
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    It\
    A baby born to a human couple turns out to be a mutant monster with an appetite to kill when scared. (imdb)
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    Daddy\
    A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered. (imdb)
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    The Gambler, the Girl and the Gunslinger
    When smooth-talking gambling man Shea McCall (Dean Cain) manipulates his way into half-ownership of a ranch run by sharpshooter B.J. Stoker (James Tupper), the two clash over everything from running the homestead to winning the heart of lovely widow Liz Calhoun (Allison Hossack). But when Mexican bandits threaten to seize their farm, the rivals must settle their differences and defend their land. Anne Wheeler directs this family-friendly Western.
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    Messages Deleted
    A quivering voice begs to screenwriter, Joel Brandt, to pick up the phone on a message from his answering machine. The caller is found dead. Another caller leaves Joel a message; there is another murder. The killer has Joel's attention, and Joel has the attention of the police. Now the prime suspect, Joel discovers this psychotic killer has targeted him for a reason found within his body of work. Will Joel be able to re-write his ending, or be forced to pay the ultimate price?
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    Scandalous
    An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts. (imdb)
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    In Broad Daylight
    A man who recently lost his sight gets out of the hospital and plots to kill his unfaithful wife. He starts by pretending to be despondent over being blind. And he learns how to go around on his own. Eventually he masters it and he sets out to kill his wife and frame her lover. He kills her but leaves behind something that could implicate him. The police investigate but the one investigating doesn't think it was the lover and suspects him and tries to prove it. (imdb)
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    Ed McBain\
    A murdered dancer leads two detectives into a deadly labyrinth of a multimillion dollar drugs and diamonds scam. (amazon.com)
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    The Defenders: Choice of Evils
    Series of new films on Showtime based on the old tv series finds the lawyers having to defend a journalist charged in a wrongful death. However, because of a bureaucratic screw-up, he is accidentally freed from prison which sets him on the run and into an incident in which a policeman is killed during an attempt to re-capture him. (imdb)
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    The Invaders
    The Invaders (1967) - TV Series
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    Branded
    Branded (1965) - TV Series
    In the 1880s Jason McCord travels the country trying to prove he's no coward. He needs to do this because the military career of this West point graduate came to an end when he was thrown out of the army after being accused of cowardice.
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    Ed McBain\
    Detectives endure record-breaking heat while seeking a rapist/killer who assaulted a female officer during a stakeout. (imdb)
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    The Tourist
    The Tourist (1996) - TV Movie
    Inspector Lanz hoped he had finally found peace after the serial killer he was pursuing for years was killed during a car chase in London. However, after going on vacation with his wife Karen and traveling to Vienna his nightmare begins again as the killer seems to be alive and has started murdering again and has chosen to target Karen as his next victim.
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    The Fugitive
    The Fugitive (1963) - TV Series
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