“You look at the world of carnivals and it’s pretty sleazy and weird, so a lot of that seeped into my movies,” says Rob Zombie, son of a carnival worker. The carny gig led naturally to a short stint on the set of “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse,” followed by a music career as front man for White Zombie, making him the industry’s first horror maestro with sales of 15 million albums worldwide. The twisted mind behind “The Devil’s Rejects,” “House of 1000 Corpses,” “Halloween” and now “Halloween II,” Zombie originally turned down the chance to direct the sequel but feeling protective of his ghoulish characters, he decided to step behind the cameras a second time.
