Frank Henenlotter
Biography
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."
Known For
Frankenhooker
Basket Case
In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994
Rewind This!
Cult of Terror
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film
That's Sexploitation!
All Movies (16)
- Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders2026 · as Self
- In Search of Darkness: 1990-19942024 · as Self
- Cult of Terror2017 · as Self - Filmmaker
- They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé2016 · as Himself
- 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street2015 · as Self
- Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film2015
- Rewind This!2013 · as Self
- That's Sexploitation!2013 · as Himself
- Your Date's on a Plate: The Making of Frankenhooker2012 · as Himself
- What's in the Basket?2011 · as Self
- Under the Scares2010 · as Self
- Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore2010
- Mau Mau Sex Sex2001 · as Himself
- Frankenhooker1990 · as Passenger (uncredited)
- The Last Moguls1986 · as Self
- Basket Case1982 · as Theater Patron (uncredited)