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How are you going to make a film model of The Munsters and never embody Drag-U-La? Effectively, as Erin Maxwell notes in her evaluation of musician/movie director Rob Zombie’s tackle the Sixties TV present, “He included the origin of Herman, how he met Lily, how the Munster clan moved to America from Transylvania, and even the origin of Spot, Eddie’s dragon that lives under the staircase, but not the famous hot rod.”
Maxwell additionally notes that one in all Zombie’s hottest songs is titled—look forward to it—“Dragula.” Nevertheless, that is likely one of the least issues with the movie, which Maxwell calls “more of an assault on the eyes than an attack on the funny bone.”
Zombie will not be the primary filmmaker who has appeared to place his stamp on the unique TV present, which debuted in 1964 and starred Fred Gwynne, Al Lewis, and Yvonne DeCarlo as a household of basic Common monsters residing a median life in a median American city. Different remakes have included a late 80s sitcom, The Munsters In the present day, and a 2012 Halloween particular on NBC, Mockingbird Lane, the pilot for a collection that was by no means picked up. Evidently the unique Munsters have been a tricky act to comply with. ♦
Click here for Maxwell’s full story and the new film’s trailer. —VV editors
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