20 Mind-Blowing Facts About George A. Romero’s Living Dead Movies

These days talented makeup and SFX artists or a nimble-fingered digital effects genius can whip up some pretty realistic gore fairly easily but back in the early days of the Living Dead movies when budgets were low and effects were rather rudimentary, Romero and Co had to get creative with what little they had.

In Night of the Living Dead much of the human flesh consumed by zombies was actually random food items like meatball subs and roast hams covered in chocolate syrup as stand-in blood with additional guts and gore provided by an investor who happened to be a butcher.

The rest of the original Living Dead trilogy stuck with using genuine meat for the more gory scenes with bona fide cow intestines used when marauding biker Sledge is disembowelled by the undead in Dawn of the Dead and real pig entrails standing in for Captain Rhodes’ innards when he too is eviscerated in Day of the Dead.