Making Bad Decisions

On Shigeru Izumiya’s 1982 ‘The Harlem Valentine Day’ aka ‘Blood is Sex,’ Rob Zombie's 2022 'The Munsters,' the ‘Heta-Uma,’ and the Pleasures of the “Badly” Made

When the trailer for Rob Zombie’s PG-rated Netflix movie The Munsters, with its cheap, garishly lit, seemingly motion-smoothed images, blew through social media last fall, it left a trail of aghast comments in its wake. As it did so, I found myself thinking back to the memorable description a friend had offered some years back of Zombie’s 2007 Halloween…