A Zombie film or a Frankenstein film?
Would you say that this is a Zombie film or a Frankenstein film?
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Definitely a Frankenstein film.
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I'd say it was a combination of mad scientist and zombie films, a bit like Zombie Holocaust (aka Doctor Butcher M.D.), only much better made.
sharePerhaps I'm wrong here but I regard Frankenstein's monster as a type of zombie.
Frankenstein's monster is undead (as are the reanimated corpses in Reanimator) but a zombie doesn't necessarily have to be undead to be a zombie. If you drill holes in someones head they don't die but behave like a zombie (NB, I haven't tried this but I just read about serial killer Jeff Dahmer doing it!)
Anyway, technicalities aside I'd term Reannimator a zombie film (as its closer to Dawn of the Dead etc) and Bride of Reanimator a Frankenstein film (as the bride is a mish-mash of parts like the original monster).
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Nope, he was actually a re-animated human. Humans that turn into zombies usually re-animated after being somehow infected by whatever "sickness" the zombie already has.
Frankenstein's monster was cobbled together from dead body parts, the brain of a criminal & was (re-)animated thru chemical & electric means by the mad doc.
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Nope, he was actually a re-animated human
No one was disputing that. The majority of zombies in zombie movies are re-animated humans.
Humans that turn into zombies usually re-animated after being somehow infected by whatever "sickness" the zombie already has.
So what? If a human has a cold, they're no longer human? You imply that zombies tend to stem from one un-human king of the zombies that infects all the others. That's not how zombie films usually work and regardless, your use of the word "usually" admits that there are exceptions to the rule.
Frankenstein's monster was absolutely a type of zombie and therefore Re-Animator works as both a zombie film and a modern re-telling (or parody as H.P. Lovecraft intended) of Frankenstein.
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I always thought of the Frankenstein monster as more of a superhuman, highly intelligent and extremely powerful. The Re-Animator creatures are the exact opposite of the the Frankenstein monster (and in the short stories, the less successful experiments DO feed on living flesh..I believe one of them even devours a little girl). Therefore, I think that the Re-Animator creatures are the prototype for modern flesh eating zombies.
Anyone ever play Resident Evil 3? After I played that game, I always pictured the monster from Frankenstein as the Nemesis..and I always pictured Mr. X from RE2 as the boxer zombie from Re-Animator. Hell, West in the stories is described as looking exactly like William Birkin.
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It is a perfect balance between a Zombie film and a Frankenstein film.
The way Herbert West behaves is very much like Dr. Frankenstein, but the nature of the re-animated dead and their behavior is very much like zombies.
H.P. Lovecraft did take inspiration from Frankenstein, but in the end he added so many unique touches that his story cannot be said to be a mere imitation.