Larry Cohen

[DrewReiber]

Larry Cohen (1938-)


FILMOGRAPHY


Director:

Bone (1972) Blue Underground (R0)*

Black Caesar (1973) MGM (R1)

Hell Up in Harlem (1973) MGM (R1)

It's Alive (1974) Warner (R1)***

God Told Me To (1976) Blue Underground (R0)*

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)

It Lives Again (1978) Warner (R1)**/***

Full Moon High (1981)

See China and Die [TV] (1981)

Q: The Winged Serpent (1982) Blue Underground (R0)*

Special Effects (1984) MGM (R1)

Perfect Strangers (1984) MGM (R1)

The Stuff (1985) Anchor Bay (R1)

It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987) Warner (R1)**/***

A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)

Deadly Illusion (1987)

Wicked Stepmother (1989)

The Ambulance (1990)

As Good As Dead [TV] (1995)

Original Gangstas (1996) MGM (R1) – pan & scan

Air Force One: The Final Mission (2004)

Masters of Horror: Pick Me Up (2006) Anchor Bay (R1)

* Available in the Larry Cohen Collection
** Available in a double feature pack
*** Available in a triple feature pack


Writer & Producer:

Maniac Cop (1988) Synapse Films (R1)

Maniac Cop 2 (1990)

Maniac Cop 3 (1993)


RECOMMENDED WEB RESOURCES

Senses of Cinema article


DVD

Anchor Bay Entertainment

Blue Underground


BOOKS/ARTICLES

Larry Cohen: The Radical Allegories of an Independent Filmmaker (Tony Williams, 1996)

[Stefan Andersson]

For the record -- some 2017 mentions of a longer cut of God Told Me To, the "Whisper Cut"; the print has a Bernard Herrrmann temp track only, and is/was at the Academy Film Archive:
https://quadcinema.com/film/god-told-me-to/
https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/22714 ... -and-more/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biN7t4lQRB8
https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/w ... rk-on-film (includes a reference to "a 1983 Sight and Sound interview by Tony Williams, where the film is referred to as “Demon.”)

[beamish14]

For the record -- some 2017 mentions of a longer cut of God Told Me To, the "Whisper Cut"; the print has a Bernard Herrrmann temp track only, and is/was at the Academy Film Archive:
https://quadcinema.com/film/god-told-me-to/
https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/22714 ... -and-more/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biN7t4lQRB8
https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/w ... rk-on-film (includes a reference to "a 1983 Sight and Sound interview by Tony Williams, where the film is referred to as “Demon.”)

This screened at the Cinefamily in Los Angeles with Cohen in person. The same print had been used for a weeklong run (in Oregon?) but was pulled because of the music licensing issues, I think. It has lost most of its color, and I believe the deleted footage is identical to what has been on home video releases of it

[Stefan Andersson]

For the record -- some 2017 mentions of a longer cut of God Told Me To, the "Whisper Cut"; the print has a Bernard Herrrmann temp track only, and is/was at the Academy Film Archive:
https://quadcinema.com/film/god-told-me-to/
https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/22714 ... -and-more/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biN7t4lQRB8
https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/w ... rk-on-film (includes a reference to "a 1983 Sight and Sound interview by Tony Williams, where the film is referred to as “Demon.”)

This screened at the Cinefamily in Los Angeles with Cohen in person. The same print had been used for a weeklong run (in Oregon?) but was pulled because of the music licensing issues, I think. It has lost most of its color, and I believe the deleted footage is identical to what has been on home video releases of it

Hi beamish14, thanks for the update!