The Frankenweenie Trailer looks awesome and I can’t wait to show it to my kids in my ongoing quest to make them tiny copies of ME. Soon they will appreciate the weird and slightly macabre madness of Tim Burton. I love that stuff.
Directed by Tim Burton, Frankenweenie is scheduled for a October 5th 2012 release date. It looks like this black and white stop motion animation is a remake of Tim Burton’s 1984 version of Frankenweenie. I would imagine just with better filming techniques and some better CGI.
Plot:
After the death of his beloved dog Sparky, young Victor harnesses the power of science to bring him back to life(Zombie DOG!). Victor tries to hide his creation, but Sparky gets out and causes havoc in the town.
This is an homage to the movie Frankenstein 1931, and I know I’ll take heat from zombie “Purists” out their when I say Frankenstein’s monster is a zombie and therefore Frankenweenie is a zombie dog. Come on, People! This goes under the category of “The Constructed” zombie type if ever I saw one.
😛 Still a type of Golem, not a Zombie. 😀
Incidentally, the “technozombies” that show up in that Raccoon City series of games/movies are actually Flesh/Cyber Golems, too.
The great debate continues!
Sorry I just can’t count monster that get adapted from a D&D monster manual in this discussion (Even though they are cooler in the book). The legitimate legends of Golem’s come from stories in the Bible and Jewish legend. They weren’t made out of parts of dead people.
I still submit to you that as the Frankenstein’s monster is pieced together from various corpses and those corpses are reanimated and given “life” that still makes him a zombie. A very high functioning zombie, I’ll grant you that, but a zombie all the same.
I do love debating this subject. 🙂 McBob, you’re making my day.
But the dead bodies themselves aren’t the monster. The monster was constructed with dead body parts as the raw material, just as a golem is made of clay, or iron, or whatever other raw material you might want to use. The fact that there’s a human-like intelligence makes the argument lean more toward golem than zombie.
If it’s “constructed” in any way, is just simply isn’t a zombie, IMO, whether that means animated dead that has a cybernetic arm added after the creature died, or something sewn together from various body parts.
Also, Frankenstein’s monster fails to be a zombie by having a heartbeat and pulse; signs of life.
“It’s ALIVE!!!”
I don’t think having a heartbeat disqualifies you from being a zombie. Zombie muscles move, and the heart is nothing but a big muscle. It’s pretty arbitrary to say that there limb muscles movie but anything inside won’t.
That just doesn’t make sense to me.
I prefer to think of Frankenstein’s monster as simply a very high functioning zombie…. but a zombie none-the-less.
Also other than a D&D monster manual there are no actual legends of golems being made out of dead people. I suppose you could convert to Judaism master the kaballah and create one. Seems like a lot of effort though.
it looks like a cute movie for tim burton
I like the dude’s style, he’s already got my money.
And he’s married to the most awesome actress in the past 40 years (excluding Betty White; All Hail the Bettywhite!), Helena Bonhamm Carter.
She is kinda hot. I think it’s the crazy eyes. (There is something seriously wrong with me.)