The making of Halloween II (in theaters Friday) was a bumpy ride, long before director Rob Zombie clashed with Dimension Films’ marketing department. On a tight schedule, “We had to do it all down and dirty and nasty, which does create a certain amount of energy,” he says. “Your brain always has to be engaged because nothing is ever gonna work out the way you planned it. We would show up every day and go, ‘What’s wrong today? Oh good, the scene that we were gonna film in the rain, the rain towers aren’t here.’ Or we’d be filming, and we’re like, ‘Why is it getting dark?’ and we’d notice that our lights were sinking down into the mud because it had been raining non-stop for 30 days in Georgia. It forces you to be creative.” You know what else has that effect on people? The EW Pop Culture Personality Test. Zombie submits to one below, AND, for extra credit, provides us with an exclusive clip from his next film, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, after the jump.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Name a song you wish you’d written.
ROB ZOMBIE: Like, the theme from Titanic would have been good. That was a big seller. Anything that was sung by Celine Dion at the height of her career, I wish I had written. I don’t actually know the titles of any of those songs, but I wish I’d written them.

The best concert you’ve ever seen?
I actually had that thought when I was at something: This is the best concert I’ve ever seen. It was recently, too. What the f— was it? [Thinks]

Neil Diamond at the Garden?
No… We saw him actually at the Staples Center. I almost got into a fight with the guy next to me. I’ve got to tell you, I’ve been to many concerts and the Neil Diamond crowd… You know what the Neil Diamond crowd is, they’re people that don’t drink except that one night a year. So you get this drunken lawyer next to you, and you go, I swear to god, I am gonna punch this guy in the face the next time he bumps into me. And if he spills that drink on Sheri [Zombie's wife] it’s on. I was sittin’ there like, I’m gonna kill this f—in’ guy, and I’m at a Neil Diamond concert. Same thing at Fleetwood Mac. Go to Ozzfest, it’s like, these people drink for a living, they’re fine. You go to Neil Diamond, it’s like everyone’s a jackhole. But that doesn’t answer your question… I saw Buck Owens at the House of Blues a couple years before he died. I really thought that was the greatest concert I ever saw. It was giving me chills, every song he played, because I was a huge Buck Owens fan. READ FULL STORY »