Cinematic zombie, I mean. I was talking with some friends recently about zombie movies that aren't often considered such, and Frankenstein is one that we came up with, along with Re-Animator.

Any others? Night of the Comet, maybe?

While Frankenstein doesn't crave brains and can to some extent use his own brain to reason, I think I do consider him a zombie. I mean, he's a reanimated corpse...

Frankenstein is hard to beat as far as first zombie "movie". That is... going with the definition of zombie being any reanimated corpse. White Zombie with Bella Lagosi was a year after Frankenstein and could be considered the first zombie movie although their zombies aren't quite modern style.

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Zombies, for the most part (even though the dead rising from the grave goes back thousands of years), comes from the religious practice of Vodou (Voodoo). These Zombies (or Zumbis I think they called them) were dead bodies reanimated and controlled by the Vodou person. Going with this definition, I think we can basically say that zombies are any reanimated dead. Any altercations of this, such as brain-craving, slow-moving zombies, should simply be a sub-category of zombie.

If Frankenstein is indeed a zombie, the first zombie movie would be Thomas Edison's version of Frankenstein (1910). Google that shit. Booyah.

Frankenstein's Monster was NOT a zombie. He was pieces of other humans. Jesus may have been a fraud but he was the first zed.