Tom Savini was ordered by the MPAA to tone down the gore in the film, which really wasn't that much in the first place. Watch 'The Dead Walk' documentary on the DVD to see several deleted scenes that were ommitted due to gore.

In the original movie, the daughter zombie kills her mother with a trowel. In this movie, when the daughter kills her mother by biting her, the blood then splatters over a trowel hanging on the wall.

The bald, half-naked zombie that Barbara shoots several times after it comes up to the broken window barrier is a cab driver that director Tom Savini had met while being taken to the set one morning. During a conversation with the driver, Savini mentioned that he was doing a re-make of Night of the Living Dead, and when the cab driver expressed great interest, Savini asked him to come to the set to be used as an extra.