The whole time we’ve been following the production and post-production of writer/director Rob Zombie’s feature film update of the classic sitcom The Munsters, fans have been wondering, “Where is Eddie Munster?” Herman Munster and his wife Lily are present, so is Lily’s dad The Count. Zombie has even confirmed that Pat Priest, who played Marilyn on the sitcom, is in the cast of his film. (And she might even be reprising the role of Marilyn, but that hasn’t been confirmed.) But where is Eddie? Zombie didn’t quite answer that question in his latest Instagram post, but he did reveal that Butch Patrick, who played Eddie on the sitcom, is in the movie. But he’s not playing Eddie. This time, he’s playing The Tin Can Man!
The Tin Can Man was a robot that was built for Eddie’s school science fair in the seventh episode of the show.
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The Munsters ran for two seasons, from September 1964 to May 1966, and consisted of 70 episodes. (You can buy the complete series at THIS LINK.) The show
starred Fred Gwynne as Frankenstein’s monster and head-of-the-household Herman Munster; Yvonne De Carlo as his wife Lily Munster; Al Lewis as Lily’s father, Grandpa, the somewhat over-the-hill vampire Count Dracula who longs for the “good old days” in Transylvania; Beverley Owen (later replaced by Pat Priest) as their teenage niece Marilyn Munster, who was attractive by conventional standards but the “ugly duckling” of the family; and Butch Patrick as their werewolfish son Eddie Munster.
In addition to Butch Patrick and Pat Priest, Zombie’s The Munsters stars Jeff Daniel Phillips as Herman, Sheri Moon Zombie as Lily, Daniel Roebuck as The Count, Richard Brake as mad scientist Dr. Henry Augustus Wolfgang, Catherine Schell as a gypsy woman named Zoya Krupp, Jorge Garcia as Herman’s friend Floop, Tomas Boykin as Lily’s werewolf brother Lester, Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson as realtor Barbara Carr, Dee Wallace as the voice of Good Morning Transylvania, and Sylvester McCoy as Igor, the loyal servant to the Munsters. Jeremy Wheeling, Roderick Hill, and Mark Griffith are also in there are Mr. Gateman, Mr. Goodbury, and Mr. Graves, the owners of the Gateman, Goodbury, and Graves Funeral Home.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Zombie said his movie The Munsters is
100 percent in the spirit of the show. I didn’t want it to be different. I wanted to totally retain the vibe that it had in the ’60s.”
His commitment to retaining the spirit of the show is evident in the film’s PG rating for “macabre and suggestive material, scary images and language”.
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