Rob Zombie's The Munsters: How One Bad Trailer Can Tank A Movie

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In the modern era, film fans see more film and TV trailers in a week than 80s audiences would've seen in a year, and that has an impact. Most movie trailers today bounce off of the collective memory without impact, some inspire massive cultural excitement, but a few stick around as a monument to failure.

Rob Zombie, beloved rock star and intensely controversial film director, hasn't put out a film in three years, since the conclusion of his unique Firefly trilogy. He's back in a big way with a project he's been trying to make happen for decades, though it looks like he threw it together over a weekend.

Rob Zombie's The Munsters Adaptation Gets A Weird And Colorful First Trailer

On July 13th, 2022, the first full trailer for The Munsters dropped online. No one has seen the film and there's no way to judge its quality, but the trailer is easily one of the worst yet released by a major studio. It opens on a playful rundown of Zombies' filmography, to poke fun at the fact that a director known for shock horror is taking on PG kids' content. A generic font and a bad voiceover wave in the trailer with the feeling of a 2009 YouTube short film. Once the events get going, the colors are garish and unpleasant. Most of the sets are grossly ruined by cheap-looking neon lights. The makeup looks decent enough, but the lighting lends it a commercial-esque vibe. Interestingly, these issues are intentional, but the commercial is rife with technical issues.

There are genuine technical issues that go beyond subjective taste. The trailer suffers from some horrific sound issues, some effects contain technical failures and other sounds seem to be missing. The opening gag is delivered with what appears to be effects that come free with Windows