For the fans who enjoyed Rob Zombie’s The Munsters, consider the project a rare Zombie one and done.
The grueling production and studio issues could be blamed for Rob Zombie turning away from The Munsters. The filmmaker opened up about the troubled production and how it changed how he felt.
Zombie claims there won’t be any more Munsters movies from him, calling the production exhausting. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly to celebrate the 20th anniversary of House of 1000 Corpses, the director looks back at the troubled production.
“I won’t [make another], and I don’t want to. The only reason I would ever want to is because I like making sequels. You have so little time with the first movie to develop these characters. Towards the end of ‘The Munsters’ film, you go, okay, now they’re all set, you can really jump in with what they’re all about,” says Zombie.
The filmmaker expands on the situation, “The Munsters’ was exhausting. That was an exhausting movie to make. It took almost five years of non-stop pushing. And then, being in a foreign country during the height of COVID was not as much fun as you would think! So the whole experience was very draining.”
From writer/director Rob Zombie comes the strangest love story ever told. Lily is just your typical 150-year-old, lovelorn vampire looking for the man of her nightmares . . . that is until she lays eyes on Herman, a seven-foot-tall, green experiment with a heart of gold. It’s love at first shock as these two ghouls fall fangs over feet in this crazy Transylvanian romance. Unfortunately, it’s not all smooth sailing in the cemetery as Lily’s father, The Count, has other plans for his beloved daughter’s future, and they don’t involve her bumbling beau, Herman. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll howl at the moon as The Munsters make their way to Mockingbird Lane!
The Munsters features a cast that includes Jeff Daniel Phillips as Herman Munster, Sheri Moon Zombie as Lily Munster, Daniel Roebuck as Grandpa, Richard Brake as Dr. Henry Augustus Wolfgang, Sylvester McCoy as Igor, Catherine Schell as Zoya Krupp, Jorge Garcia as Floop and Cassandra Peterson as Barbara Carr.
The Munsters is out digitally and streaming on Netflix where available.
