This weekend, Halloween II, writer-director Rob Zombie’s sequel to his reboot of the Halloween franchise, scored the number three slot at the box office. How to account for the movie’s success? Earlier this year AMC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff paid a visit to the writer-director on set and talked about his attachment to siblings Laurie Strode and Michael Myers and how he went about humanizing the iconic killer.

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A video interview with Tyler Mane (the actor behind the Michael Myers mask) »

A video interview with Halloween II‘s special effects team »