The Munsters is a 2022 American comedy horror film about a family of monsters that moves from Transylvania to a US suburb.
Written and directed by Rob Zombie (3 from Hell; 31; The Lords of Salem; Halloween 2007 and its sequel; The Devil’s Rejects; House of 1000 Corpses).
The Hero Squared-Universal 1440 Entertainment production stars Jeff Daniel Phillips as Herman Munster, Sheri Moon Zombie as Lily Munster and Daniel Roebuck as Grandpa Munster. Dee Wallace, Cassandra Peterson (Elvira), Richard Brake, Jorge Garcia and Sylvester McCoy also star.
Reviews:
“As a movie, it’s nothing but loose ends, a lukewarm stew of concepts that haven’t been stirred enough to combine in the cauldron. But as a faux television pilot, the actors, the sketches, the sight gags, and the puns mesh together endearingly in precisely the kind of experience that would have drawn weekly audiences in a more innocent era of broadcast television. Zombie’s passion is evident…” AV Club
“The Munsters is admirably committed to its vision, but it’s a little hard to say who it’s really for. The movie feels just a little too dark and sarcastic for pre-teens, or someone old enough to have watched the series in its original run. And while fans of Rob Zombie’s other movies may appreciate his attention to detail, they may find a bloodless movie full of campy ‘60s sitcom humor a little too tame.” Consequence Film
“Every minute of it reads like a “fan film” in the worst possible ways, from syndicated TV-type presentation values on par with a high school production of Our Town, to a cast of character actors who don’t possess anywhere near the drawing power necessary to embody the endearing appeal of iconic personalities.” 15/100, Culture Crypt
“Rob Zombie’s update of the popular 1960s television sitcom is a Day-Glo disaster that looks cheap, is rarely amusing, and runs at least twenty minutes too long. Even the easily entertained horror fanboys who have enabled Zombie’s filmmaking career will probably be disappointed.” Day for Night
“The film falls completely flat tonally as Zombie takes a step back from his more edgier and gore-filled roots and instead leans into the comic and kooky; and whilst the film does have some good one-liners they are few and far between. This lacks both the laugh-a-minute comedy and charm of the original series and none of the grittiness and edge we have to come to expect from Zombie either…” Indie Mac User
“For the most part, the comedy in Zombie’s The Munsters is low brow, the vibrantly gaudy locales could pass for displays found inside of a Spirit Halloween store, and the acting rejects subtly like bloodsuckers do garlic, all of which often feel exactly as they are supposed to be. Zombie is an artist that operates on a strange wavelength has likely made his most sincere work to date…” B- The Playlist
“Every idea is given exactly the attention it needs because Zombie is trying to do justice to so many things at once: his cast of beloved regulars, his obsessions as a creator and consumer, the original TV show he’s adapting, and the time his younger self spent glued to the TV set forming his personality (not for nothing does TV play such a crucial function in this movie’s plot), unconsciously planning a life that has looped back around to this moment.” RogerEbert.com
“It’s colorful, fun, and vapid. At face value, it’s a series of inside jokes compatible with a tiny slice of the audience. Sadly, half the viewers won’t make it to the end. You get a shitload of gobos and saturated primary-colored lights. With its laid-back attitude and innocent humor, it’s at least entertaining.” Tales of Terror
“In The Munsters, the director Rob Zombie makes a game attempt to pass off his amateurishness as attitude. It’s like watching a Tim Burton film with the cheekiness turned up to 11 and the film technique dialed down to 2. Yet The Munsters, the family-of-ghouls ’60s sitcom that Zombie is adapting, was such a ticky-tacky piece of gothic bat-house surrealism that the movie, broad and slovenly as it is, works more than it doesn’t.” Variety
“The problem lies with the script, it’s awful. He [Rob Zombie] has even less understanding of comedy than he does straight horror, something I didn’t think was possible. Rather than recreate the tone of The Munsters TV show he’s made what feels like a highly exaggerated spoof of it. One that mocks its source material rather than respects it.” 1/5, Voices from the Balcony
Release:
The Munsters was released on Blu-ray, DVD and VOD on September 27, 2022, by Universal 1440 Entertainment, a production arm of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. It was also streaming on Netflix the same day.
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