Cinema is a screen onto which we can project our fears, torments and the monstrosities of the world. The screen protects us from what we see, but cinema has also permanently anchored our nightmares around a few powerful images (empty houses, hostile attics and basements, demonic masks, bloodcurdling grimaces, disturbing postures). Throughout the summer, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be presenting a series of films encompassing more than one hundred and twenty years of horror, reminding us that what scares us most is to make the deepest of our fears tangible and credible.
A strange creature is seen in New York. Many believe it to be the serpent god Quetzalcoatl. But the authorities refuse to believe the story until citizens start disappearing. One man stumbles upon the monster's lair, but he has interests of his own.
Larry Cohen
Lawrence George Cohen, known as Larry Cohen, was an American screenwriter, producer, and director, best known as an author of horror and science fiction films — often containing police procedural and satirical elements — during the 1970s and 1980s. He originally emerged as the writer of blaxploitation films such as Bone (1972), Black Caesar, and Hell Up in Harlem (1973). His most famous film is It's Alive, a horror film released in 1974, featuring a killer mutant baby. Later on, he concentrated mainly on screenwriting, including Phone Booth (2002) and Cellular (2004).
