If you love the Addams family and their Wednesday descendants and have a heart for lovable fantasy-horror and outsider characters, then you must also love “The Munsters.” While cartoonist Charles Addams’ “The Addams Family” was conquering television screens in the 1960s with the black-and-white series “The Addams Family,” a similarly thematic competing series, “The Munsters,” was also coming to life at the same time.
Like the Addams, the Munsters are a family of scary characters and monsters. However, unlike the Addams Family, the family members are more closely based on the classic movie monsters from Hammer Studios. For example, Herman Munster is inspired by Frankenstein’s monster, while Grandpa Munster is clearly recognizable as an elderly Dracula and son Eddie strongly resembles a budding werewolf.
So if you want to pass the time until the next season of the Netflix hit ‘Wednesday’, you can definitely take a look at ‘The Munsters’. And there is currently a very good way to do this: Currently, you can stream the 1995 television movie “A Scary Family to Scream” “The Munsters” on YouTube – completely legally, in HD and completely free. We’ve embedded the film for you here, but it’s only available in English:
This is “A Scary Family for Screaming”
A family trip is planned: the Munsters fly to America to find Herman’s (Edward Herrmann) brother-in-law Norman Hyde (Max Grodénchik) – and the trip alone contains enough material for chaos. Once there, the family discovers that he has been transformed into Brent Jekyll (Jeff Trachta) and that he is officially aiming for a middle-class life and a political career. But not at the Munsters – Grandfather Dracula (Robert Morse) develops a formula to turn him back into Norman and bring him to his senses.
By the way, last year horror director Rob Zombie dedicated a film to the crazy monster clan. Here, Rob Zombie regulars Sheri Moon Zombie (“The Lords of Salem”), Jeffrey Daniel Phillips (“31”) and Richard Brake (“Halloween II”) join the strange monster group, among others. Unfortunately, it is currently not possible to stream the unusually funny film by zombie standards anywhere with a subscription. If you are interested in ‘The Munsters’, you can rent the horror film for a few euros on Amazon.