Larry Cohen has been good to Bad Movie Night, for giving us things like this:
and this:
And we already had John Carpenter Night and Godfrey Ho Night so a Larry Cohen Night is overdue.
Hell Up in Harlem is the sequel to Black Caesar, a movie we never saw. But here's Larry Cohen himself talking about it over the trailer. So now you're all caught up.
After Black Caesar was a hit Hell Up in Harlem was made quickly during the weekends while Cohen was making the first It's Alive on weekdays. I think the slapdashing of the movie contributes to its charm.
Cohen gets the "story by" credit for Cellular, which I figured meant he said to somebody, "Hey, why don't you guys make a movie where someone is kidnapped and only some random guy with a cellphone can save her". But I guess the finished movie bears more than a resemblance to Cohen's script. Someone remade the opening scene for their film class based on the original script and it looks similar:
Except Cellular is shot on film and has more Jason Statham!
Here's what happened last week:
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