Claim: Winona Ryder acts.

Frankenweenie is a 2012 American 3D stop-motion-animated fantasy horror comedy film directed by Tim Burton and produced by Walt Disney Pictures . It is a remake of Burton 's 1984 short film of the same name and is a parody of and an homage to the 1931 film Frankenstein based on Mary Shelley 's book of the same name . The voice cast includes four actors who worked with Burton on previous films : Winona Ryder -LRB- Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands -RRB- ; Catherine O'Hara -LRB- Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas -RRB- ; Martin Short -LRB- Mars Attacks ! -RRB- ; and Martin Landau -LRB- Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow -RRB- .   Frankenweenie is in black and white . It is also the fourth stop-motion film produced by Burton and the first of those four that is not a musical . In the film , a boy named Victor loses his dog , a Bull Terrier named Sparky , and uses the power of electricity to resurrect him -- but is then blackmailed by his peers into revealing how they too can reanimate their deceased past pets and other creatures , resulting in mayhem . The tongue-in-cheek film contains numerous references and parodies related to the book , past film versions of the book and other literary classics .   Frankenweenie , the first black-and-white feature film and the first stop-motion film to be released in IMAX 3D , was released on October 5 , 2012 and met with positive reviews and moderate box office sales . The film won the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film and was nominated for an Academy Award ; a Golden Globe ; a BAFTA ; and an Annie Award for Best Film in each respective animated category .