Frank Henenlotter
Director
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."
As Director
Filmography
Basket Case
as Theater Patron (uncredited) 1982
Frankenhooker
as Passenger (uncredited) 1990
Rewind This!
as Self 2013
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
2010
That's Sexploitation!
as Himself 2013
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
as Himself 2015
Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film
2015
In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994
as Self 2024
They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé
as Himself 2016
Cult of Terror
as Self - Filmmaker 2017
Mau Mau Sex Sex
as Himself 2001
Your Date's on a Plate: The Making of Frankenhooker
as Himself 2012
The Last Moguls
as Self 1986
What's in the Basket?
as Self 2011