Frank Henenlotter

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
- Directing
- Born
- 1950-08-29 · New York City, New York, USA
Known for
- Basket Case (1982) — Theater Patron (uncredited)
- Frankenhooker (1990) — Passenger (uncredited)
- Brain Damage (1988) — Director
- Basket Case 2 (1990) — Writer
- Bad Biology (2008) — Writer
- Basket Case 3 (1992) — Director
- Rewind This! (2013) — Self
- Skinned Deep (2004) — Thanks
- That's Sexploitation! (2013) — Himself
- Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore (2010)
- 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street (2015) — Self
- Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film (2015)
- Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana (2018) — Director
- They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé (2016) — Himself
- In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 (2024) — Self
- Belial's Dream (2017) — Characters