Frank Henenlotter

Born: 1950-08-29

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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Frankenhooker

as Passenger
Released: 1990-06-01

A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to bring...

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Basket Case

as Theater Patron (uncredited)
Released: 1982-04-02

A young man carrying a big basket that contains his deformed Siamese-twin brother seeks...

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Rewind This!

as Self
Released: 2013-08-27

Home video changed the world. The cultural and historical impact of the VHS tape was enormous....

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42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street

as Himself
Released: 2015-07-15

The story behind the rise and fall of New York's 42nd Street. The cinemas, the films, the...

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Cult of Terror

as Self - Filmmaker
Released: 2017-10-14

A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and...

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Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore

as uncredited
Released: 2010-06-01

Take an outrageous ride through this wild world of exploitation films with this thoroughly...

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Under the Scares

as Himself
Released: 2010-07-01

Cheap scares. Extreme Gore. Loads of nudity. These have been the three staples of low budget...

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That's Sexploitation!

as Himself
Released: 2013-06-25

Before the advent of modern-day pornography, a vast and rapidly-paced world of smut peddling was...

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They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé

as Himself
Released: 2016-04-19

Savage! Sadistic! Thrill hungry! When it came to independent filmmaking in the sunshine state,...

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What's in the Basket?

as Himself
Released: 2011-09-27

A documentary on the making of Frank Henenlotter's Basket Case trilogy.

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Mau Mau Sex Sex

as Himself
Released: 2001-04-06

A documentary about the history of exploitation films that focuses on the careers of legendary...

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