Last Fall, filmmaker Rob Zombie unleashed his family horror-comedy film take on the classic 1960s sitcom “The Munsters” on Netflix and on disc.
The PG-rated feature was shot in Budapest at the height of COVID and served as something of a prequel to the two-season 1960s sitcom as it showed how Herman (Jeff Daniel Phillips) and Lily (Sheri Moon Zombie) met before they ended up living at 1313 Mockingbird Lane with Lily’s grandfather The Count (Daniel Roebuck) along with son Eddie and niece Marilyn.
Reviews for the film weren’t good, the movie pulling in 52% (4.7/10) with critics and an even worse 36% (4.7/10) with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. It was evidently a passion project of Zombie, famous mostly for his very dark and gory horror films such as “The Devil’s Rejects” and his own re-interpretation of “Halloween”.
In a new interview with EW on the 20th anniversary of “House of 1000 Corpses,” Zombie says he has no plans to do a sequel and talks about the rough experience he had getting the film financed and completed during the pandemic:
“‘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.
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.”
Zombie says he’s currently focused on music and is set to tour all summer with Alice Cooper before going on to make another record with no film plans for the near future.
