Last week, Rob Zombie released the full trailer for his re-boot of ’60s TV classic, “The Munsters.” Written and directed by Zombie, “The Munsters” stars Zombie’s wife Sheri Moon Zombie as Lily Munster as well as Jeff Daniel Phillips as Herman Munster, Daniel Roebuck as The Count and Sylvester McCoy as Igor.
He also revealed the first official poster via social media with the caption: “Check it out ! The official one-sheet poster for THE MUNSTERS has arrived! So ghoulie groovy good!” Zombie said that filming had officially wrapped in Budapest. “Well, that’s a wrap on everyone involved with THE MUNSTERS! Thanks Budapest you’ve been great. Enjoy your new Mockingbird Lane. Next stop the airport.”
On Monday, Zombie again took to Instagram to reveal that the movie is going to be featured on Netflix this fall. “This fall we are gonna spook-out like it’s 1964!” Zombie wrote. “Yep, THE MUNSTERS and THE ADDAMS FAMILY are returning to the boob tube at the same time courtesy of @netflix. It’s been 58 years since this clash of the titans first happened. Perfect entertainment for your pumpkin carving party.”
Zombie said the film will be more family friendly than his previous films. “Yeah, it’s 100 percent in the spirit of the show,” he said. “I didn’t want it to be different. I wanted to totally retain the vibe that it had in the ’60s.” The original show is also currently streaming on Peacock.
Zombie previously admitted to The Pulse Of Radio that it’s been challenging for him to break out of the horror genre. “The movies I’ve made up to this point have been pretty dark and pretty much in that world because those are the opportunities that were presented,” he explained. “You know, the people that put up the money for these things know that if I stick to that sort of thing, it’s easily more profitable. So it’s a much bigger challenge to break out of it.”
The original series was a ’60s television show based around a family of monsters in the style of a sitcom. It ran on CBS from September 24, 1964 to May 12, 1966, with 70 episodes produced. Its cancelation came when “Batman” starring Adam West, went head to head with the show causing ratings to decline significantly. Following a failed attempt to revive the show with original cast members in 1981, a further renewal came to fruition in the form of “The Munsters Today,” which ran from 1988 to 1991 with 73 episodes.
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