Figure 1.--Here Eddie in "Here Comes the Munsters" is at school. He makes friends with the girls, but the boys don't like him at first. He wears a burgunday velvet suit in this version.

Several movies have been made based on the classic TV series "The Munsters" (1964-66). Although the series had a relatively hort run, in syndication it has attracted a near cult following. We know of only one film made by the original Munster cast--"Munster Go Home". The rest were made subsequently. None of the film versions have the same wondeful camp humor of the TV series. This is especially true of the later version without the original cast. For the most part they are very disappointing.

Here Come the Munsters - (US, 1992)

"Here Come the Munsters" is a very weak film based on the TV series. It explains how the Munsters come to America, chased out by the villagers in Transylvania. There family already occupies 1313 Mockingbird Lane. Grandpa in particular is very poorly done in this film, his makeup is comically amaturish. There are several feeble attemps at humor such as Eddie eating from a dog bowl. Eddie has a good size part and like the TV series wears a velvet short pants suit, this one in burgandy. One boy at school wears long baggy shirts. One interesting aspect of this film is that the Munster cast excet for Herman make a cameo appearance.

Munster Go Home - (US, 1966)

The lovable Herman Munster inherits his British uncle's title and manor. This is the best of the Munster films, primarily because it has the original cast. Eddie, played by the TV series Butch Patrick, and wears his bright blue velvet suit with the wide white collar. Presumabaly the same suit he wore in the black and white TV sereies. He wears it with dark knee socks. A group of short-panted village boys throw tomatos at him.

(The) Munster's Scary Little Christmas - (US, 1996)

This group of Munster's just doesn't have the charm of the original TV Munsters. In fact they are a rather embarassing lot. Only an affection to the originazl Munsters could attracy one to watch this remake. The script is particularly hokey. The original Munster TV scripts were also rather hokey, but the charm of the cast rather made up for the wek scripts. Eddie in this version is not as bad as the rest of the cadt. This Eddie is older than the original Eddie, I'd say 12 years old. He wears a burgundy velvet suit with the wide collar and floppy bow. I'm not sure why these Munster remakes use burgundy, I suspect that the producers here are reusing the 1992 costumes. He wears dark knee socks with his suit. Except for his pajamas, this is his only costume. At the beginning of the film he is being teased by the other boys, but not about his velvet suit. Unfortunately that is the last you see the other boys and his one friend. Eddie has quite a big part, in fact the film is set around him because he is having trouble getting adjusted to California. There are only a few really good scenes of him, despite the fact he appears in almost all the scenes. Unfortunately his hair is really scragaly, rather detracting. Eddie is played by Bug Hall. At the end there is a monster party. I believe that among the guests were another boy. I'm not sure what he was wearing.

(The) Munsters' Revenge - (US, 1981)

An evil villain masterminds an art exhibit heist and somehow gets the dim-witted Herman Munster involved. I haven't seen this, but the TV series had a nice little boy (Eddie) in a velvet short pants suit.

Created: August 25, 2003
Last updated: August 25, 2003