Frank Henenlotter

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Frank Henenlotter

Born August 29, 1950 · New York City, New York, USA (age 76)

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…

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FrankenhookerFrankenhooker · 1990
Frankenhooker
6.31990
MovieComedyHorror
A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to bring her back to life. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures prostitutes into a hotel room so he can collect body parts to reassemble her.
Basket CaseBasket Case · 1982
Basket Case
6.21982
MovieHorrorComedy
A young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed, formerly conjoined twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.
Bad BiologyBad Biology · 2008
Bad Biology
4.52008
MovieHorrorComedy
Driven by biological excess, a young man and woman search for sexual fulfillment, unaware of each other's existence. Unfortunately, they eventually meet, and the bonding of these two very unusual human beings ends in an explosive and ultimately over-the-top sexual experience, resulting in a truly god awful love story....
Brain DamageBrain Damage · 1988
Brain Damage
6.71988
MovieHorrorComedy
Brian comes under the addictive spell of a parasite with the ability to induce euphoric hallucinations in its hosts.
Basket Case 3Basket Case 3 · 1992
Basket Case 3
5.11992
MovieHorrorComedy
Duane recovers from his delusional breakdown to find his freakish basket-bound brother Belial will soon become a father. But not everything is joyous as the once tight knit brothers no longer seem to trust each other.
Basket Case 2Basket Case 2 · 1990
Basket Case 2
5.71990
MovieHorrorComedy
Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks.
Skinned DeepSkinned Deep · 2004
Skinned Deep
4.22004
MovieComedyHorror
An ordinary family goes on a trip by car, but their car breaks down. The dutiful father of the family immediately sets off to get help and seems to find it with a nice elderly lady. The woman invites the whole family to dinner, but the hospitality soon turns out to be an ambush.
Chasing BanksyChasing Banksy · 2015
Chasing Banksy
9.02015
Movie
A breezy comedy set in the art world of New York that brings an insider's insight into the financial troubles that constantly beset a group of Big Apple artists struggling to survive.

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That's Sexploitation!That's Sexploitation! · 2013
That's Sexploitation!
5.92013
MovieDocumentary
Before the advent of modern-day pornography, a vast and rapidly-paced world of smut peddling was the norm, complete with its own secret history. This documentary reveals the untold story of American cinema's gloriously sordid cinematic past. Starting in the 1920s, expert exploiteer David F. Friedman and Henenlotter navigate us through more than five salacious decades of skin flicks. It's the true story of dirty movies, traced in elegant detail from the bizarre locations where these nudie shorts were screened to the ongoing legal battles fought by their promoters. And of course there are the stories of the innovators themselves, people who often risked their own security and livelihood to make these films, believing in some way that what they were doing wasn't a 'bad' thing - and that it could rake in some dough.

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