Vintage Trailer of the Week 37

Writer Director Larry Cohen is a sort of twisted genius. Nobody has ever mastered high concept quite so well as he did in a string of low-budget b-movies through the 1970s and 80s including God Told Me To (1976) Its Alive (1974) and The Stuff (1985). In recent years his work as a Screenwriter has maintained that focus on a single compelling idea - he wrote Phone Booth (2002) Cellular (2004) and Captivity (2007) - but his best work remains this deranged pulp Classic which plays like a straight gritty New York police thriller for the most part...only its got an enormous stop-motion Dragon as the villain. Nesting in the Chrysler building. feeding on Manhattanites. David Carradine seems so stoned hes incapable of emoting and Michael Moriarty gives a hysterically hyperactive performance and its all great fun: