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Frank Henenlotter

Frank Henenlotter

Born: 1950-08-29 • 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."

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