The Pitch: Herman Munster, a big goofy lummox made of reanimated dead bodies in the style of Frankenstein’s monster, marries the ghoul of his dreams, a vampire named Lily. But the newlyweds aren’t shacked up in her father The Count’s castle in Transylvania for long before they’re unceremoniously kicked out, and decide to start a new life in America. The Munsters is rock star-turned-horror auteur Rob Zombie’s reboot of the CBS series of the same name, which ran for two seasons in the mid-‘60s, and then staggered around for decades in syndication like the living dead. And while the Netflix film is a prequel, detailing Herman and Lily’s meet cute before the birth of their sitcom son, werewolf boy Eddie Munster, it’s otherwise impressively faithful to the source material’s look and sense of hu...
Rob Zombie, the king of kitschy-cool horror rock (and film), not to mention long titles, has released his second single, “The Eternal Struggles of the Howling Man” from his upcoming seventh studio album, The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy. The album arrives on March 12 on Nuclear Blast. Zombie, who has been spending the lockdown on the East Coast, shared the album’s first song, “The Triumph of King Freak, on Halloween last year. Zombie has become closely associated with the holiday — and films — since directing 2007’s Halloween, a remake/reimagining of the 1978 horror film of the same name and the ninth installment in the classic franchise. The new LP features longtime guitarist John 5, who told Revolver magazine that the new Zombie reco...