Director
Frank Henenlotter
76 years · New York City, New York, USA · 23 films
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."
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Filmography 22
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
2026 · Self
In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994
2024 · Self
Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana
2018 · Director
Basket Case 3-1/2: An Interview With Duane Bradley
2018 · Director
Cult of Terror
2017 · Self - Filmmaker
They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé
2016 · Himself
Chasing Banksy
2015 · Director
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
2015 · Self
On Tubi TV
Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film
2015 · Actor
On Night Flight Plus
Rewind This!
2013 · Self
On Plex
That's Sexploitation!
2013 · Himself, Director
On Plex
What's in the Basket?
2011 · Self
Under the Scares
2010 · Self
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
2010 · Actor, Director
Bad Biology
2008 · Director, Writer
On Plex
Mau Mau Sex Sex
2001 · Himself
Basket Case 3
1992 · Director, Writer
On Philo
Frankenhooker
1990 · Passenger (uncredited), Director
On AMC+
Basket Case 2
1990 · Director, Writer
On Philo
Brain Damage
1988 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
Basket Case
1982 · Theater Patron (uncredited), Director
On ARROW
Slash of the Knife
1976 · Director, Screenplay