The B-Movie Genius: Larry Cohen

If you’ve had the experience of walking through a video store, Congratulations! You are an adult.  Hopefully, despite your many years, you can recall the sensation of being surrounded by movies, ensconced in the possibility of exciting adventures, alien worlds, horrors beyond imagining and side-splitting comedy.  Unfortunately these institutions are, for the most part, no more and children today only have the virtual version of this with their Netflix queue which doesn’t come close to the tangible experience.  Yes, if only there were some sort of building children could go to that had walls collecting portals into other realms, divided into sections by genre, alphabetized or maybe some other sort of system of arrangement.  Nope.  No place like that.

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