Gary P. Cohen
Gary P. Cohen is the producing director of Plays-in-the-Park, a respected summer theater in New Jersey, where he has directed more than fifty plays and musicals. In the early 1970s he founded a 100-seat semiprofessional theater, where he honed his craft before joining Plays-in-the-Park in the 1980s. He is the author of The Community Theater Handbook (Heinemann, 2003). Cohen has co-authored Off-B'way's Frankenstein, A New Musical and A High School Monster Musical with Mark Baron, as well as The Reluctant Dragon. A former William Morris agent, Cohen has also written and directed three 80's cult shot-on-video horror films: Video Violence Video Violence Il, and Captives, currently on DVD & Blu-ray.
Video Violence Part 2
as AnchormanHoward and Eli have graduated from gruesome basement antics to pirating a cable TV channel for...
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VHS Revolution
as SelfUsing testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture...
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Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector
as HimselfA documentary capturing the modern day VHS culture and VHS collectors.
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S.O.V. The True Independents
as uncreditedSeries dedicated to preserving the legacy of shot on video horror movies. Hear the true stories...
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Halloweenville
as HimselfJoin Gary P. Cohen, director of Video Violence, Video Violence 2, and Captives aka Mama's Home...
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Captives
as Barry EpsteinReferred to as “the most accomplished SOV horror film from this era,” Captives, is the sophomore...
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Frankenstein (I Swear on My Mother's Eyes) The True Story
as Dr. Victor FrankensteinA shot-on-video straight-to-television comedy adaptation of the Frankenstein story. Co-written...
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