Now that a teaser trailer has finally been released for writer/director Rob Zombie‘s update of the classic sitcom The Munsters, we’re back to waiting for Universal 1440 Entertainment to announce a specific release date (at the moment, we only know that the movie is going to be released sometime this fall)… and looking forward to seeing a full trailer. But while we wait, Zombie can always be counted on to share more images on social media, and he has just done that. In a new batch of four images, Zombie gives us another look at Herman Munster, his wife Lily, and Lily’s father The Count.
The characters are played by Jeff Daniel Phillips, Sheri Moon Zombie, and Daniel Roebuck in Zombie’s movie.
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 the actors pictured above, Zombie’s The Munsters stars 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, Sylvester McCoy as Igor, the loyal servant to the Munsters, and original sitcom cast member Pat Priest – possibly reprising the role of Marilyn! 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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