Frank Henenlotter
Known for: Directing
Born: August 29, 1950
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
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
27 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
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Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
2026
7.9
In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994
2024
7.6
Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana
2018
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Basket Case 3-1/2: An Interview With Duane Bradley
2018
6.4
Belial's Dream
2017
6.8
Cult of Terror
2017
5.6
They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé
2016
9.0
Chasing Banksy
2015
7.8
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
2015
7.6
Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film
2015
6.9
Rewind This!
2013
5.9
That's Sexploitation!
20139.5
Your Date's on a Plate: The Making of Frankenhooker
2012
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What's in the Basket?
2011
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Under the Scares
2010
6.1
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
2010
4.5
Bad Biology
2008
4.2
Skinned Deep
2004
6.3
Mau Mau Sex Sex
2001
5.1
Basket Case 3
1992
6.3
Frankenhooker
1990
5.7
Basket Case 2
1990
6.7
Brain Damage
19886.5
The Last Moguls
1986
6.2
Basket Case
1982
3.0
Slash of the Knife
1976
9.0
Son of Psycho
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