Frank Henenlotter
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
- Frankenhooker (1990)
- 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street (2015)
- Basket Case (1982)
- Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders (2026)
- They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé (2016)
- Cult of Terror (2017)
- Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film (2015)
- Rewind This! (2013)
- In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 (2024)
- Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore (2010)
- Under the Scares (2010)
- Mau Mau Sex Sex (2001)
- That's Sexploitation! (2013)
- What's in the Basket? (2011)