Frank Henenlotter
Frank Henenlotter, is an American screenwriter, director and film historian. He is known primarily for his horror comedies, though he would prefer to be classified as an "exploitation" filmmaker (rather than horror). "I never felt that I made ‘horror films’, he has said. "I always felt that I made exploitation films. Exploitation films have an attitude more than anything – an attitude that you don’t find with mainstream Hollywood productions. They’re a little ruder, a little raunchier, they deal with material people don’t usually touch on, whether it’s sex or drugs or rock and roll."
13 directing credits · 16 acting credits
Directing · 13
Frankenhooker
1990
Brain Damage
1988
Basket Case
1982
Bad Biology
2008
Basket Case 2
1990
Basket Case 3: The Progeny
1992
That's Sexploitation!
2013
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
2010
Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana
2018
Chasing Banksy
2015
Slash of the Knife
1976
Basket Case 3-1/2: An Interview With Duane Bradley
2018
Son of Psycho
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Acting · 16
Frankenhooker
1990
In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994
2024
Basket Case
1982
Rewind This!
2013
Cult of Terror
2017
Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film
2015
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
2015
Mau Mau Sex Sex
2001
That's Sexploitation!
2013
They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé
2016
Under the Scares
2010
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
2010
The Last Moguls
1986
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
2026
What's in the Basket?
2011
Your Date's on a Plate: The Making of Frankenhooker
2012