New York filmmaker Frank Henenlotter's small body of work has had a huge impact on splatter filmdom. He only has five full-length features to his credit, but they're all cult classics that were as popular on the midnight circuit as they have been on video.

Frank Henenlotter Horror Filmography: - Basket Case (1982) - Brain Damage (1988) - Frankenhooker (1990) - Basket Case 2 (1990) - Basket Case 3 (1992)

His first and best film, "Basket Case," received plenty of attention in the early 1980s from Fangoria magazine, thanks to its strong gore content and (at the time) cool make-up effects. With some bad acting, classic dialogue and a stop-motion-animation monster, "Basket" was one of the funniest horror films of the era, and set the groundwork for similar horror comedies such as "Re-Animator" and "Return of the Living Dead."

Henenlotter followed it up with "Brain Damage" in 1988 and "Frankenhooker" in 1990. Both films had strong camp and gore content. By the early 1990s, Henenlotter busied himself making sequels to his lucrative "Basket Case" classic. His last film was "Basket Case 3: The Progeny" in 1992.

He has close ties to Something Weird Video, which is currently distributing "Basket Case" and a "Sexy Shockers" series, featuring films directed by other people but presented by Henenlotter.