I think we have spent too much time being disturbed – or, at least, bewildered – by Rob Zombie’s work that we often forget he does have a sense of humor.
Besides, with how boldly exploitative horror-comedy movies have become, it would only makes sense that the Munsters’ adventures get a little bloodier than they may have appeared in grayscale, which brings me to my next and final point.
That being said, anybody who calls themselves a fan of The Munsters should realize that dark comedy was always the life blood of that series and, hopefully, would be able to understand and accept if it got a bit darker for Rob Zombie’s movie.
I mean, it is certainly a wickedly morbid sense of humor, as best exemplified through Sid Haig’s performance as the clownish Captain Spaulding, the pure insanity of his 2009 animated film The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, and his insane fake trailer for Werewolf Women of the S.S., featuring his friend Nicolas Cage, in Grindhouse from 2007.