SCFZ poll: Larry Cohen

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Polling the films of Larry Cohen

The rules:

- your list can include no more than half* of the Cohen films you've seen, up to a maximum of 8. So if you've seen 6 films, you can vote for 3, and if you've seen 20, you can vote for up to 8.

* If you've seen an odd number, you can round up when deciding the length of your ballot -- e.g if you've seen 7, you can vote for 4, and if you've seen 15, you can vote for the maximum of 8.

- i'll assume ballots are ranked unless you tell me otherwise. unranked ballots are fine.

- deadline for ballots: next Friday, in seven days, whatever day that is

umbugbene created an index on letterboxd of all of our previous polls here: letterboxd.com/umbugbene/list/index-of-all-scfz-director-polls/

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01. Q

Cohen seen: 1

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God Told Me To
Bone
Q
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
The Stuff
Perfect Strangers
The Ambulance

[greennui]

0.

Thought at first this was the Kids/Ken Park director.

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Thought at first this was the Kids/Ken Park director.

ha, at first i thought this was the borat/bruno director

it doesn't seem that probable that there would be a larry charles, a larry clark, and a larry cohen who are all established film directors

[Joks Trois]

Seen 12.

The Stuff
The Private Files of J.Edgar Hoover
God Told Me To
Q
Black Caesar
It's Alive III

[Lencho of the Apes]

God Told Me To
Black Caesar
Return To Salem's Lot
Q

[MitchellPrettyplace]

Black Caesar
Special Effects
God Told Me To

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welcome to scfz, mitchell!

[john ryan]

Seen 3.

1. God Told Me To
2. Q

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i don't know cohen well enough to comment on the results, but here they are!

results
1. God Told Me To (1976) — 14 pts
2. Bone (1972) — 9 pts
3. Q (1982) — 7 pts
4. Black Caesar (1973) — 6.5 pts
5. The Stuff (1985) — 5 pts
6. The Private Files of J Edgar Hoover (1977) — 3 pts
7. It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987) — 2.3 pts
8. Special Effects (1984) — 2 pts
8. A Return to Salem’s Lot (1987) — 2 pts
10. Perfect Strangers (1984) — 0.5 pts
11. The Ambulance (1990) — 0.3 pts

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this is up at letterboxd

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... -poll-312/

[Joks Trois]

I watched Bone recently. I'd put that as my no.1 Cohen if I could revote.

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I watched Bone recently. I'd put that as my no.1 Cohen if I could revote.

i usually don't edit the results after posting to letterboxd, but with so few ballots in this poll, i'd rather the results be based on more data, so i've edited the results (bone rises to 2nd, no other changes), and the letterboxd version too