Actually, the dreck was Larry Cohen’s idea and I’d be hard-pressed to call it dreck. I’d call Q: The Winged Serpent one of the most criminally underrated genre movies of the Eighties.

However, among B-movie aficionados, his most celebrated works are arguably Q: The Winged Serpent (1982) and The Stuff (1985). Both of these films were written, produced, and directed by Cohen, but ...