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•  Screenwriter John A. Russo appears as the ghoul who gets his forehead smashed by Ben with a tire iron. He also allowed himself to be set on fire for real when nobody else wanted to do the stunt.
•  Contrary to popular rumor, the film was originally shot on 35mm film. The print that passed into the public domain is a grainy 16mm positive, which was used for subsequent prints. The only way to see a 35mm print made from the original 35mm negative is to see the DVD of the Millennium Edition from Elite Media, which was released in 2002.
 
•  The body upstairs in the house was made by director George A. Romero who used ping-pong balls for the eyes.
 
"Civil defense officials in Cumberland have told newsmen that murder victims show evidence of having been partially devoured by their murderers."
 
  HARRY: Did you hear me when I told you they turned over our car?
BEN: Oh, hell! Any good five men could do that!
HARRY: That's my point! There's not going to be five, or even ten! There's going to be twenty,
thirty, maybe a hundred of those things, and as soon as they find out we're here, this
place'll be crawling with them!
BEN: Well, if there's that much, they'll probably get us wherever we are.
REPORTER: Are they slow-moving, chief?
SHERIFF: Yeah, they're dead. They're all messed up.
REPORTER: Chief, if I were surrounded by eight or ten of these things, would I stand a chance with
them?
SHERIFF: Well, there's no problem. If you have a gun, shoot 'em in the head. That's a sure way
to kill 'em. If you don't, get yourself a club or a torch. Beat 'em or burn 'em. They go
up pretty easy.
SHERIFF: Good shot! OK, he's dead; let's go get 'im. That's another one for the fire.
SHERIFF: Put that thing all away on the fire! We don't want it getting up again!
 
SHERIFF: All right, Vince, hit him in the head, right between the eyes.
NEWSCASTER: : Reports, incredible as they may seem, are not the results of mass hysteria.
BEN: Mass hysteria? What do they think, we're imagining all this?
NEWSCASTER: All persons who die during this crisis from whatever cause will come back to life to seek
human victims, unless their bodies are first disposed of by cremation.
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