It’s always been a special project for me. It relates to how I felt as a child, and those early influences like the Universal monster movies and also the German Expressionist films like 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' – the black and white, the mood, the atmosphere.
I grew up with all those movies, Universal monster movies, Hammer films, Japanese monster movies, Ray Harryhausen films. Those are the ones that I grew up with.
— Tim Burton · Collider interview with Tim Burton
It relates to how I felt as a child, and those early influences like the Universal monster movies and also the German Expressionist films like 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' – the black and white, the mood, the atmosphere.
— Tim Burton · Vulture interview: 'Tim Burton on Frankenweenie: “It’s a very personal project”'
Films That Influenced Frankenweenie
