* The budget was $1.5 million
* The worldwide gross takings were $40 million
* Filmed over the winter of 1977-78
* The official release date in America was April 10, 1979.
* The "Additional Music" is listed as Dario Argento and The Goblins, although Argento didn't perform any of the music; he only supplied it. The name of the band was not The Goblins either, but Goblin.
* As he helped fund the movie, Dario Argento was allowed to re-edit it for non-English speaking countries. This version is know as the Argento Cut.
*Also known as: Dawn of the Living Dead ( US working title), Zombi (Italy), Zombies - Dawn of the Dead (U.K), Zombie.
* Joe Pilato, who played Captain Rhodes in Day of the Dead, had a small role in DOTD. At the dock scene he can be seen running around in the background in the Theatrical Cut but has a speaking part in the Directors Cut.
* For the two scenes where we see as if looking through binoculars, Romero simply cut out a binocular template and attatched it to the camera lens, giving the (albeit dated) illusion.
* Dawn of the Dead proved to be a breakthrough movie for Tom Savini , being offered a job on Friday the 13th immediately after Dawn's release.
