Savini was an early opponent of the blood, produced by 3M, but Romero thought it added to the film, claiming it emphasised the comic book feel of the movie.
Surrounded by the zombie-like hordes, a shopping mall security guard is reminded of a zombie film he once saw, referencing Dawn of the Dead.
Dead Rising, released by Capcom in the U.S. on August 8, 2006, is a zombie-slaying game heavily influenced by George A. Romero's 1978 movie Dawn of the Dead.
Acting and the special effects were provided by Chris Bridges who also engineered special effects for 300, Dawn of the Dead, Blade II, Max Payne and many others.
In 2009 he conceived, produced and co-directed with Milan Konjević feature horror film Zone of the Dead, starring zombie-genre legend Ken Foree (George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead), for which he has been awarded as the best producer of the year at the "Producers' day" ceremony held by the Faculty of Dramatic Arts Belgrade.
The airfield was used as a filming location in a pivotal scene in the 1978 horror film Dawn of the Dead.
Some critics have given the film praise: Little White Lies gave the film 4/5 and called it "The greatest zombie sequel since Dawn of the Dead".
The melody is "The Gonk" from George Romero's 1978 Dawn of the Dead soundtrack, as played in the supermarket scenes.
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The album's title and jacket cover, depicting the band members set upon by "zombies" in blue make-up, was a salute to the George A. Romero horror film, Dawn of the Dead.
The MKR Group, who holds the copyright to both the 1978 Dawn of the Dead film and its 2004 remake, sent letters on February 6, 2008 to Capcom, Microsoft, and Best Buy, claiming that Dead Rising infringes on the copyrights and trademarks of these films.
Paffenroth credits his main influence to be George A. Romero the director of many popular main stream zombie movies such as Dawn of the Dead.
The surrealistic landscapes of Eden Log were inspired by Vestiel's favorite films, such as Escape From New York and Dawn of the Dead, and comics and literature, such as Frank Miller's Daredevil and Métal Hurlant.
This style of music is sometimes used to comedic effect in mass media such as film, where intense or dramatic scenes may be interrupted or interspersed with such anodyne music while characters use an elevator (e.g. The Blues Brothers, Dawn of the Dead, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra and Spider-Man 2).
She also starred as Dodger Allen in the 2005 movie Cry Wolf, as Nicole in the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead, and had a small part in Wrong Turn with Eliza Dushku.
Monroeville was named after the shooting location of Dawn of the Dead, and Borehamwood was a tie-in with the TV series Dead Set.
The mid to late 2000s saw an exponential gain in popularity for zombie walks, due largely to the success of zombie films at the time, such as the Resident Evil movies, 28 Days Later, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, George A. Romero's Land of the Dead, and Zombieland.
The lawsuit was dismissed in October 2008, with United States Magistrate Judge Richard G. Seeborg stating that MKR failed to demonstrate the similarity of any protected element of Dawn of the Dead to that of Dead Rising, with many of the elements MKR claimed were similar being part of the "wholly unprotectable concept of humans battling zombies in a mall during a zombie outbreak".