Rob Zombie has the reputation of a cult director mainly due to the fact that he’s Rob Zombie the rockstar in his day job, as aside from his ‘Halloween’ remake and maybe ‘House Of 1000 Corpses’ and ‘The Devil’s Rejects’, most of his movies are a steaming pile of cack. Honestly, you can’t watch any of them and say that you actually like them – even in an ironic grindhouse kind of way.
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Anyway, despite the fact that his films suck, people are still giving him money to make them and his next one is going to be a reimagining of ‘The Munsters’ for the year 2022. If you think that sounds terrible, then wait until you see the trailer.
Rob Zombie shares some thoughts underneath that too:
From @RobZombie comes the greatest love story ever told. 🖤 Watch Herman and Lily take #TheMunsters from Transylvania to Hollywood. Coming September 2022 🎬 pic.twitter.com/jUdL8k39Un
— The Munsters Movie (@TheMunsters) July 13, 2022
For those of you speculating, wondering and assuming that ‘The Munsters’ would be dirty, violent and nasty…well, you are wrong.
It’s all good down on Mockingbird Lane.
I knew that if I went in and demanded, ‘This movie’s going to be in black and white or forget it!’ we would not be talking about the Munsters right now, because it would have never happened. I guaran-f***ing-tee it
But what I did do is I made the colors sort of hyper-real.
I noticed when the actors were in their makeup and they were just walking around, getting lunch or whatever, they looked like cartoon characters come to life. They were just so insanely colorful.
I was like, I have to light the movie in the same fashion. It really seemed at all times like a live-action cartoon, which was really exciting.
I didn’t want it to be different. I wanted to totally retain the vibe that it had in the ’60s.
It’s 100% in the spirit of the show.
Yeah, I suppose that looks like a ‘cute’ and ‘wacky’ homage to the original, but considering that the original show ran back in the 1960s, I’m not really sure if that’s what we need right now. More than happy to be proved wrong of course, but I don’t think I’ll even bother to check it out unless it gets some majorly good reviews though. Fingers crossed for you Rob Zombie.
For more of the same, check out when John Carpenter started beef with Rob Zombie over the ‘Halloween’ remake. What a time to be alive.
