- S. William Hinzman and Karl Hardman, two of the original $300 investors had small roles due to a shortage of available talent. Another investor was a butcher, who provided some blood and guts.
- Columbia Pictures was the only major Hollywood studio interested in distributing this film, but eventually passed because it was in black-and-white film at a time when movies had to compete with new color televisions. Ironically, Columbia did distribute the 1990 color remake.
- Other blood is actually Bosco chocolate syrup.
- During the filming of the cemetery sequence, shot on two separate days, an unexpected accident caused a fast change of script. The car driven by Barbara and Johnny into the cemetery was actually owned by Russel Streiner's mother. Unfortunately, sometime between the two shootings, somebody ran into the car and put a dent in it that would easily be visible on camera. George Romero rewrote the scene so the car would come to a stop crashing into a tree.
- Judith Ridely (Judy) later married Russel Streiner (Johnny). They are now divorced.
- In the scene where Ben is nailing wooden boards to the door, small numbers can be seen on them. These were written on the backs of the boards so they could be removed and replaced in between shots, preserving continuity. Some numbers are visible because some of the boards were nailed on backwards.
- Tom Savini was originally hired by George A. Romero to do the makeup effects for this film. The two were first introduced when Savini auditioned for an acting role in an earlier film that never got off the ground. Romero, remembering that Savini was also a makeup artist (he had brought his makeup portfolio to show to Romero at the audition), called Savini to the set of his horror movie. However, Savini was unable to do the effects, as he was called to duty by the U.S. Army to serve as a combat photographer in Vietnam.
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