Frank Henenlotter

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."

Directed

1. Basket Case (1982) — Director
2. Frankenhooker (1990) — Director
3. Brain Damage (1988) — Director
4. Basket Case 2 (1990) — Director
5. Bad Biology (2008) — Director
6. Basket Case 3 (1992) — Director
7. That's Sexploitation! (2013) — Director
8. Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore (2010) — Director
9. Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana (2018) — Director
10. Son of Psycho — Director
11. Chasing Banksy (2015) — Director
12. Slash of the Knife (1976) — Director
13. Basket Case 3-1/2: An Interview With Duane Bradley (2018) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Basket Case (1982) — Theater Patron (uncredited)
2. Frankenhooker (1990) — Passenger (uncredited)
3. Rewind This! (2013) — Self
4. That's Sexploitation! (2013) — Himself
5. Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore (2010)
6. 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street (2015) — Self
7. They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé (2016) — Himself
8. Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film (2015)
9. In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 (2024) — Self
10. Mau Mau Sex Sex (2001) — Himself
11. Cult of Terror (2017) — Self - Filmmaker
12. Your Date's on a Plate: The Making of Frankenhooker (2012) — Himself
13. The Last Moguls (1986) — Self
14. What's in the Basket? (2011) — Self
15. Under the Scares (2010) — Self
16. Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders (2026) — Self