Zombie told EW that “The Munsters” is more family-friendly than his previous films.

“Yeah, it’s 100 percent in the spirit of the show,” he said. “I didn’t want it to be different. I wanted to totally retain the vibe that it had in the ’60s.”

Regarding his choices for the actors in the movie, Rob said: “I wanted to cast people that had worked together a lot. I couldn’t risk getting on set in Budapest [Hungary] and going, my leads aren’t getting along, they have no chemistry. So that’s why I chose the cast I chose. Jeff Daniel Phillips and Sheri Moon Zombie and Daniel Roebuck, they work together a lot and I knew they would just fall right into it.”

“The Munsters” will be released this fall by Universal 1440 Entertainment, a production arm of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group.

The original “The Munsters” aired on CBS for two seasons from September 1964 to May 1966.

A musician, filmmaker, and author, Rob Zombie has directed eight feature films, including 2019’s “3 From Hell”, 2016’s “31” and 2012’s “The Lords Of Salem”. His other directing credits include the cult favorite “House Of 1000 Corpses” and its companion, “The Devil’s Rejects”, along with the 2007 re-imagining of John Carpenter‘s “Halloween”, plus its sequel, “Halloween 2”. Zombie also developed his own comic book series into an R-rated animated feature, “The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto”.

Zombie admitted to The Pulse Of Radio a while back that it’s been tough for him to break out of the horror genre. “The movies I’ve made up to this point have been pretty dark and pretty much in that world because those are the opportunities that were presented,” he explained. “You know, the people that put up the money for these things know that if I stick to that sort of thing, it’s easily more profitable. So it’s a much bigger challenge to break out of it.”