Gary P. Cohen
Director · b. 1952 · New York
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.
Movies6
Movie6.5DocumentaryA documentary capturing the modern day VHS culture and VHS collectors.
Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector
2013 · 32 votes
Movie5.8HorrorComedyThe killers are back and now hosting their own TV show broadcast secretly from their basement. They examine the fine art of murder, letting other aspiring psychos send in videos of their handiwork for the world to enjoy.
Video Violence Part 2
1988 · 17 votes
Movie6.3DocumentaryHistoryUsing testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture the media generated – with far-fetched examples of canine television games, seduction manuals, aerobics class while holding a baby, among others.
Movie5.0HorrorReferred to as “the most accomplished SOV horror film from this era,” Captives, is the sophomore effort of director Gary Cohen (Video Violence 1&2). Three weirdoes invade the home of a well-to-do family while the husband is at work. They aren't there to steal anything; they have a video they want to show the wife. On it is the past life of her husband, something much more violent and drug-fueled than she ever could have expected. When things go wrong for the invaders and blood gets shed, the wife must reconcile what she has seen and what she knows, and her new knowledge of the past makes her future unthinkable.
Captives
1988 · 4 votes
Movie10.0HorrorPetey Monahan, or as the bullies call him, "Pizza Face," is a quiet, acne faced boy who loves working at his father's pizza shop, Pizza World. But, after a childish prank goes awry, Petey gets trapped in a burning pizza delivery car and is left for dead...or so they thought. Now, Petey is back with a brand new look and is hungry for revenge. Who gets the last slice? Find out...in PIZZA PARTY MASSACRE!
Pizza Party Massacre
2024 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DocumentaryHorrorJoin Gary P. Cohen, director of Video Violence, Video Violence 2, and Captives aka Mama's Home as he travels to the seemingly normal small town of Lambertville, NJ and watches it transform into Halloweenville.
Halloweenville
2011 · 1 votes