Another great B-Movie director/writer/creator has passed away. Larry may not be as famous as Roger Corman or Russ Meyer but he gave us some pretty bitchin’ flicks through his career: Black Caesar, It’s Alive, Q and The Stuff. With Joe Bob Briggs’ return via Shudder, there was a tribute to Larry because these movies were Drive-In staples when I was growing up. I remember this older kid in my neighborhood during the late Seventies who got to see It’s Alive and he gave us a good synopsis. It was the days before HBO so talking to a kid with “bad” parents was the only to get the skinny.
Now I need to catch the recent documentary Cohen on Cohen which is about Larry since I discovered him way too late.