Munsters Reboot Photo Reveals The Perfect Rob Zombie Easter Egg

Director Rob Zombie has already revealed a way his The Munsters reboot will reference his music career. To say Zombie has proven to be a divisive filmmaker would be a massive understatement. Zombie’s movies definitely have a loyal audience, as was evidenced by 2019’s limited release of 3 From Hell raking in several million dollars in profit despite only being in theaters for a few days. To a certain extent, one knows what they’ll likely get from a Zombie movie, and his fans find that comforting in a way.

Zombie’s most controversial movies so far have definitely been his 2007 remake of Halloween – which creator John Carpenter hated – and his 2009 sequel to that remake. Zombie’s first Halloween has a lot of good points, although it’s hard to defend the messy Halloween 2. Now though, Zombie attempts to reboot another long-standing franchise in The Munsters, which has never gone too long without a new iteration since the original TV show in the mid-1960s. The fact that such a short-lived program led to that much success is still quite impressive all these decades later.

Zombie is a longtime fan of The Munsters and has wanted to direct a reboot of it for years now, which will hopefully succeed where previous Munsters reboots failed with the project finally in production. Of course, anyone who paid attention to his music would be aware of that, and now that’s he taking over The Munsters reins, his reboot will include a sort of circular reference to his 1998 hit song “Dragula,” via Herman.

As revealed by Zombie in a recently released set photo, Herman’s hot rod attire has made it into The Munsters reboot movie. In a season one episode of The Munsters entitled “Hot Rod Herman,” the Munster patriarch loses the family’s Munster Koach to a drag racer, leading Grandpa Munster to build Herman a hot rod he can use to win the prized vehicle back. Herman wears the Punk Rods jacket seen above while driving the hot rod, which Grandpa dubs the Dragula. Since Grandpa is a vampire, this Dracula pun name makes perfect sense.

Clearly, the Dragula made an impression on Zombie when he watched The Munsters, as he would later name one of his biggest hit songs “Dragula,” found on the Hellbilly Deluxe album that still stands as his most successful release. Hellbilly Deluxe also featured hits like “Superbeast” and “Living Dead Girl,” the latter of which is packed full of horror and B-movie references. No matter what one thinks of Zombie as a writer and director, he’s always worn his influences on his sleeve, with his music videos also taking inspiration from horror movies. As a fan, he’s likely thrilled to have the opportunity to work the Dragula into the Munsters reboot, as both a reference to the show and his own musical past.

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