
Frank Henenlotter
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 29, 1950, New York City, New York, USA
- Movies
- 28
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."
Upcoming Frank Henenlotter Movies

Son of Psycho
Release date TBA
Best-Known Movies

Basket Case
1982

Frankenhooker
1990

Brain Damage
1988

Basket Case 2
1990

Bad Biology
2008

Basket Case 3
1992

Rewind This!
2013

That's Sexploitation!
2013

Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
2010

42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
2015
Filmography
| 2026 | Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders | Self |
| 2024 | In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 | Self |
| 2017 | Cult of Terror | Self - Filmmaker |
| 2016 | They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé | Himself |
| 2015 | 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street | Self |
| 2015 | Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film | |
| 2013 | Rewind This! | Self |
| 2013 | That's Sexploitation! | Himself |
| 2012 | Your Date's on a Plate: The Making of Frankenhooker | Himself |
| 2011 | What's in the Basket? | Self |
| 2010 | Under the Scares | Self |
| 2010 | Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore | |
| 2001 | Mau Mau Sex Sex | Himself |
| 1990 | Frankenhooker | Passenger (uncredited) |
| 1986 | The Last Moguls | Self |
| 1982 | Basket Case | Theater Patron (uncredited) |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2018 | Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana | Director |
| 2018 | Basket Case 3-1/2: An Interview With Duane Bradley | Director |
| 2015 | Chasing Banksy | Director |
| 2013 | That's Sexploitation! | Writer, Director |
| 2010 | Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore | Director |
| 2008 | Bad Biology | Director, Writer |
| 1992 | Basket Case 3 | Writer, Director |
| 1990 | Frankenhooker | Director, Writer |
| 1990 | Basket Case 2 | Director, Writer |
| 1988 | Brain Damage | Director, Writer |
| 1982 | Basket Case | Director, Writer |
| 1976 | Slash of the Knife | Director, Screenplay |
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