Being candid as humanly possible, Romero revealed that he came up with the idea drunkenly when crashing to finish the script.
Shortly after the release of Dawn of the Dead in early 1978, Rolling Stone published an extremely in-depth profile on the film’s production, which included some pretty great interviews with people like George A. Romero and special effects guru Tom Savini.
Romero also credited Italian director Dario Argento (who played a major role in getting the movie financed) with helping him come up the words a voodoo priest from the Caribbean would say.