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."
Acting (13 movies)
Cult of Terror
2017
Mau Mau Sex Sex
2001
Rewind This!
2013
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
2015
That's Sexploitation!
2013
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
2010
What's in the Basket?
2011
Basket Case
1982
They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé
2016
Under the Scares
2010
Frankenhooker
1990
Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film
2015
In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994
2024
Directing (11 movies)
Frankenhooker
1990
Basket Case
1982
Basket Case 3: The Progeny
1992
Basket Case 2
1990
Brain Damage
1988
Bad Biology
2008
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
2010
That's Sexploitation!
2013
Chasing Banksy
2015
Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana
2018
Slash of the Knife
1976
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Slash of the Knife | 1976 | Screenplay |
| Basket Case | 1982 | Writer |
| Brain Damage | 1988 | Writer |
| Basket Case 2 | 1990 | Writer |
| Frankenhooker | 1990 | Writer |
| Basket Case 3: The Progeny | 1992 | Writer |
| Bad Biology | 2008 | Writer |
| That's Sexploitation! | 2013 | Writer |