Director Guillermo del Toro wants to have a beer with you. Sort of. He'd like nothing better than for all us to just sit back, relax and enjoy the new DVD for his film BLADE II, which he organized to demystify the movie making process, provide technical information for up and coming young filmmakers, and - most of all - just be fun to watch.

This "film fan who became a director" has such cult faves like CHRONOS and MIMIC under his belt, and cut his teeth in the industry doing special effects make-up for many Spanish language films since the late 1980s. When it came time to show the techniques behind the magic on BLADE II, the director knew he wanted to share it all. "I wanted to show young kids how it was done," he said. Here, the native of Guadalajara, Mexico gives DVDFILE the skinny on how he created the BLADE II DVD, which discs rank among his own favorites, and what HELLBOY - his next project - is all about.

Were there DVDs that influenced you when it came time to put together the bonus features for BLADE II?

I wanted to make this DVD very unique. I actually host a couple of sections of the DVD by introducing them first personally to make people feel at home and feel that they're really dealing with me when they buy the DVD. It's not a product put out by a corporation. It's something that's put out by an individual. I took personal care of the sound mix and the color correction of the DVD.

I think that the DVDs that I like are done with the personal involvement of the director. Some of the most perfect DVDs are those that James Cameron puts out for his movies, and knowing him and how puts them together inspired me. He goes in there and takes the time. I wanted to do the same.

What did you know you had to put into this DVD?

Humor. A lot of humor. I wanted people not to be afraid of the behind-the-scenes stuff being a PR document. Most of the time the "Making Of" pieces are just press releases for the movie. I wanted this to feel much more informal and much more relaxed and a lot more irreverent. I wanted to say to viewers, "Relax. Enjoy the movie. We're not going to talk about how great we are or how fantastic we are. We're just going to show you stuff and shoot the shit."

Are there deleted scenes on this DVD that you were sad to have cut from the movie?

No. There are deleted scenes on this DVD that I did not want in the movie. The deleted scenes are there for people to see and see why they're not in the film. I think it will illuminate what gets done editorially and why and what we do to get a movie's final shape. There's also a lot of didactic material that's very informative about how we built the monsters. We go behind the scenes in a deeper way than any other DVD before this to show you the building of the "reapers" both mechanically and digitally in very intricate detail.

You have a background in special effects make-up and a lot of your early film work in the late 1980s was done as an effects make-up artist. Do you share any of that knowledge in the BLADE II supplements?

I was very interested in sharing this because when I was doing my special effects make up for my films and my short films I would have killed to have this kind of information. I just felt if I was 17 or 18 and I bought the BLADE II DVD I would flip to see this kind of thing. You really, really want to put it there for the guys who are into the genre and into making movies. I want to put the DVD to the service of people who are that into the detail of the craft.

By the same token, people who are just big collectors couldn't ask for better bonuses than this. We go behind the scenes and we have the most extensive interviews and documentaries on the movie. We have several hours worth of each. We have two commentary tracks. If you order a beer and a pizza and watch them you'll really enjoy them, I think. It's all very informal and very relaxed. It's also total unassuming and warm. They're all "hanging around" kind of commentaries, which is one of the two types of commentaries I like - the other being a very technical kind of commentary.