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."
Filmography
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
2026
as Self
In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994
2024
as Self
Cult of Terror
2017
as Self - Filmmaker
They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé
2016
as Himself
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
2015
as Self
Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film
2015
Rewind This!
2013
as Self
That's Sexploitation!
2013
as Himself
- No poster
Your Date's on a Plate: The Making of Frankenhooker
2012
as Himself
What's in the Basket?
2011
as Self
Under the Scares
2010
as Self
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
2010
Mau Mau Sex Sex
2001
as Himself
Frankenhooker
1990
as Passenger (uncredited)
- No poster
The Last Moguls
1986
as Self
Basket Case
1982
as Theater Patron (uncredited)