Frank Henenlotter
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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
Credits
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders (2026)
as Self
Frankenhooker (1990)
as Passenger (uncredited)
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street (2015)
as Self
Basket Case (1982)
as Theater Patron (uncredited)
Mau Mau Sex Sex (2001)
as Himself
Rewind This! (2013)
as Self
The Last Moguls (1986)
as Self
Cult of Terror (2017)
as Self - Filmmaker
Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film (2015)
Actor
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore (2010)
Actor
They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé (2016)
as Himself
That's Sexploitation! (2013)
as Himself
What's in the Basket? (2011)
as Self
Under the Scares (2010)
as Self
In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 (2024)
as Self
Your Date's on a Plate: The Making of Frankenhooker (2012)
as Himself