If you go by Rob Zombie’s Instagram account, he has been filming his movie based on the classic sitcom The Munsters for about nine months straight. We know that’s not the case, the finished film was given a PG rating four months ago, but the captions on the images Zombie has posted have continued to act like filming has been going on this entire time. Yesterday, a caption finally said that production had wrapped – and to mark the occasion, Zombie shared a few more images of Jeff Daniel Phillips, Sheri Moon Zombie, and Daniel Roebuck as their characters Herman Munster, Lily Munster, and The Count:
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 mentioned 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, 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. Sitcom cast member Pat Priest is in there, possibly reprising the role of Marilyn, and her sitcom co-star Butch Patrick is playing The Tin Can Man.
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”.
Are you looking forward to seeing Rob Zombie’s The Munsters? Share your thoughts on this project by leaving a comment below. Now that production has “finally wrapped”, maybe we’ll be hearing a release date soon.
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