Rob Zombie's film "The Munsters," a pre-Halloween offering out on Netflix now, is almost certainly a love-it-or-loathe-it experience for fans of the beloved 1960s TV series on which the new production is based.
In addition to voice cameos from two of the surviving original cast members, the new movie features Zombie's wife, Sheri Moon Zombie, as Munster matriarch Lily memorably played by Yvonne De Carlo in the TV series.
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