
Frank Henenlotter
Director
Born: August 29, 1950 (75 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."
Filmography (18)
- Rewind This! (2013, ★ 6.9)
- 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street (2015, ★ 7.8)
- Cult of Terror (2017, ★ 6.8)
- Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film (2015, ★ 7.3)
- In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 (2024, ★ 7.9)
- Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana (2018, ★ 7.6)
- Mau Mau Sex Sex (2001, ★ 5.4)
- That's Sexploitation! (2013, ★ 5.8)
- Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore (2010, ★ 5.9)
- Basket Case (1982, ★ 6.2)
- They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé (2016, ★ 6.1)
- Frankenhooker (1990, ★ 6.3)
- Brain Damage (1988, ★ 6.7)
- Belial's Dream (2017, ★ 6.4)
- Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1992, ★ 5.1)
- Basket Case 2 (1990, ★ 5.7)
- Bad Biology (2008, ★ 4.6)
- Skinned Deep (2004, ★ 3.9)