20 Mind-Blowing Facts About George A. Romero’s Living Dead Movies
19. What’s That Tune?
That weirdly upbeat (for a zombie apocalypse movie), polka-style song that can be heard playing over the end credits of Dawn of the Dead is a 1965 composition by British composer Herbert Chappell known as ‘The Gonk’.
It popped up again in Dawn of the Dead in a scene in which Dr Logan tells a badly behaving test zombie to sit in the dark and think about what it’s done although in a more synthy-style probably because the movie was filmed smack bang in the middle of the 1980s.
Listen carefully at the start of Land of the Dead and you’ll hear The Gonk being played by a zombified trio of musicians at a bandstand although they are technically dead so it isn’t exactly the best or most easily recognised rendition.