At a young age, Cozzi became a fan of science fiction and began his career as an overseas correspondent for Western film magazines.

[2] Cozzi was also a great fan of science fiction, and worked as an overseas correspondent for Western film magazines such as Famous Monsters of Filmland and Photon.

[3] Cozzi has since attempted to develop new non-science fiction films including The Locomotive and Freshmen but could not get funding for them.

[3] Cozzi felt he did not have the budget to compete with Star Wars and decided to give the film a "deliberately crazy look".

[4] Cozzi began expressing his frustration with the Italian film industry, stating in an interview in Cinefantastique that "What can I do?

[6] The film, dubbed "Cozzilla" by fans, has been regarded as "a real oddity in the long and often bizarre history of the Godzilla franchise"[7] and later fans stating "the Cozzi cut is now the stuff of legend, an ambitious but woefully misguided attempt to update a film that had already been compromised and really didn’t need this sort of mugging".

[5] He was later offered by Menahem Golan to do an updated version of the story of Hercules on the condition that he could re-write the script in three weeks.

[9] He created the scene involving the insects attacking a school by filming smashed coffee grounds in a water tank.

[9] Cozzi was offered to direct the film Witchery, which the initial director Claudio Lattanzi left during pre-production.

[9] The film stars Donald Pleasence and is based on the legend of a famous violinist being in league with the devil.

[11] A new film made by Cozzi titled Blood on Méliès' Moon was announced at the Italian Horror Fest in Nettuno in July 2014.