Name
Frank Henenlotter
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1950-08-29 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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."
Known For
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Driven by biological excess, a young man and woman search for sexual fulfillment, unaware ...
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A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to ...
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A young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed, formerly conjoined...
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Brian comes under the addictive spell of a parasite with the ability to induce euphoric ha...
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Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks...
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Duane recovers from his delusional breakdown to find his freakish basket-bound brother Bel...
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An ordinary family goes on a trip by car, but their car breaks down. The dutiful father of...
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Home video changed the world. The cultural and historical impact of the VHS tape was enorm...
The story behind the rise and fall of New York's 42nd Street. The cinemas, the films, the ...
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Before the advent of modern-day pornography, a vast and rapidly-paced world of smut peddli...
- 2017 Cult of Terror as Self - Filmmaker
- 2001 Mau Mau Sex Sex as Himself
- 2013 Rewind This! as Self
- 2015 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street as Self
- 2013 That's Sexploitation! as Himself
- 2010 Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
- 2011 What's in the Basket? as Self
- 1982 Basket Case as Theater Patron (uncredited)
- 2016 They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé as Himself
- 2012 Your Date's on a Plate: The Making of Frankenhooker as Himself
- 2010 Under the Scares as Self
- 1990 Frankenhooker as Passenger (uncredited)
- 1986 The Last Moguls as Self
- 2015 Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film
- 2024 In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 as Self
- 2026 Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders as Self
