It was on this day (January 12, 1965) 56 years ago a Superbeast was born. Help us give a big birthday shout-out to the one and only Rob Zombie! Check out some interesting facts you may or may not know below.

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  Rob Zombie's birth name is Robert Bartleh Cummings

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  Rob was a production assistant for the TV show Pee-wee’s Playhouse

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  Rob’s directorial debut was House of 1000 Corpses, which was supposed to come out in 2000 but the studio cancelled it because of violent themes in the film. Three years later, he got the rights to it and got it released.
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  The first album Rob bought was an Alice Cooper LP. The first record he ever owned was a seven-inch of the Jackson 5’s “Dancing Machine” that he bought while in kindergarten and played over and over.

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  His idols growing up were Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Bela Lugosi, and Stan Lee

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  He eloped with Sheri Moon on Halloween 2002
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  In 1999, Rob designed a haunted attraction for Universal Studios, which helped revive the amusement park’s annual Halloween Horror Nights attraction

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  Zombie’s remake of Halloween, which came out in 2007, holds the record for the biggest box-office earner on Labor Day weekend after it earned $30.5 Million

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  Rob lent his voice to episodes of Spider-Man: The New Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited. He also provided the voice of the Ravager navigator system in Guardians of the Galaxy
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  He almost made The Crow 3

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  In 2011, Rob directed a horror-themed commercial for the laundry detergent Woolite.

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  He wrote and produced his own comic book called The Haunted World of El Superbeasto.
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  Rob directs all of his music videos.

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  His parents were in the carnival circuit.

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  He is vegan.

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