Creator Couple: Zombie's then-girlfriend Sean Yseult played bass in White Zombie. His wife, Sheri Moon-Zombie, has acted in all his films to date.
Doing It for the Art: His revision of Halloween. Even after the studio offered him the director's chair, he wouldn't do it until he got permission from John Carpenter himself. The second film was to make sure that the series got a proper ending, and didn't become another Franchise Zombie (no pun intended).