Editing Day of the Dead (1985 film) (section)

===In popular culture===
Near the end of the film version of ''[[Resident Evil (film)|Resident Evil]]'' (2002), the protagonist [[Alice (Resident Evil)|Alice]] walks outside of her quarantine into a ravaged city street jammed with traffic. The camera pans past a newspaper blowing in the wind stating "The Dead Walk!", a direct homage to George A. Romero's work on ''Day of the Dead''.

"Just Voodoo It", an episode of ''[[Stroker & Hoop]]'', featured the characters battling zombies using guns made by Double-Wide. They turn out to fire only sunlight, which he claims is because of zombies' vulnerability to sunlight, hinted at by the film being called ''Night of the Dead'' and not ''Day of the Dead''. Coroner Rick yells at him "That was the sequel!"

The song "M1 A1" from the [[Gorillaz (album)|self-titled]] 2001 [[Gorillaz]] studio album [[Sampling (music)|samples]] the pulsing synthesizers and cries of "Hello! Is anyone there?" from the opening of the film.<ref name="Kermode" /> The song "Hip Albatross", also by Gorillaz, features a clip of Terry Alexander's dialogue.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gorillaz |url=http://www.leechvideo.com/video/view2122965.html |website=leechvideo.com |access-date=2008-01-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724163538/http://www.leechvideo.com/video/view2122965.html |archive-date=July 24, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Furthermore, the artwork for the song "November Has Come" off of the Gorillaz' 2005 album ''[[Demon Days]]'' has a picture of a calendar pinned to a brick wall set to the month of October with all the dates marked off in red Xs (reminiscent of the opening scene in ''Day of the Dead'').<ref name="Kermode">{{cite news|last=Kermode|first=Mark|author-link=Mark Kermode|date=2008-07-20|title=The year of the monkey|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/jul/20/art|newspaper=[[The Observer]]|access-date=2022-12-28}}</ref>

The song "Battlefield" from the 2004 [[Panzer AG]] studio album ''[[This Is My Battlefield]]'' samples Captain Rhodes asking Sarah in reference to Miguel's zombie bite: "You think he wants to walk around after he's dead? You think he wants to be one of these things?" The line "Sit down or so help me God I'll have you shot" appears once near the end of the song.

The deathcore band [[Through the Eyes of the Dead]] sampled a clip at the beginning of the song "Between the Gardens that Bathe in Blood", released on the EP ''The Scars of Ages'' (2004).

The [[Ministry (band)|Ministry]] song "[[Burning Inside (song)|Burning Inside]]" from the studio album ''[[The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste]]'' features an audio sample of the military station's warning horn and a few notes of composer John Harrison's synthesized score.

The song "Confessions of a Knife (Theme Part 2)" from the 1990 studio album ''[[Confessions of a Knife...]]'' by [[My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult]] samples dialogue between Sarah and Captain Rhodes. Captain Rhodes: "I'll have you shot." Sarah: "Are you out of your mind?" Captain Rhodes: "No, ma'am. Are you?" Along with dialogue from Private Steel and laughter from Private Rickles that repeats later throughout the song. Steel: "Bang! You're dead!" followed by Rickles' laughter.

The song "The Only Good God Is a Dead God" from the 1992 studio album ''Psychological Warfare Technology Systems'' by [[Lustmord|Terror Against Terror]] samples Captain Rhodes' final screams "Choke on them... choke on them", with the sounds of the zombies eating him.

American punk band the [[Misfits (band)|Misfits]] recorded a song about the film entitled "Day of the Dead" for their 1997 studio album ''[[American Psycho (album)|American Psycho]]''.

In 2014, [[Sherman Howard]]'s zombie character Bub appeared in a cameo in "[[Us (The Walking Dead)|Us]]", the fifteenth episode of the [[The Walking Dead (season 4)|fourth season]] of the [[AMC Networks|AMC]] series ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]'',<ref>{{cite web|last=Miska|first=Brad |author-link=Brad Miska |date=March 30, 2015|title="The Walking Dead" Gave Homage to 'Dawn of the Dead' In Last Night's Finale; Bub Also Made a Cameo!|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3338008/the-walking-dead-gave-homage-dawn-of-the-dead-last-nights-finale/|website=[[Bloody Disgusting]]|access-date=December 28, 2022}}</ref> as one of the walkers encountered by the characters [[Glenn Rhee|Glenn]] and [[Tara Chambler|Tara]] in a railroad tunnel, an homage to not only the character but also to the underground setting of ''Day of the Dead''.

The first episode of the [[Stranger Things (season 3)|third season]] of ''[[Stranger Things]]'' sees the main characters sneaking into their local cinema to watch an early screening of ''Day of the Dead''.

[[Seattle]]-based musical duo the Little Black Bottles composed "Letter to Miguel", a tribute song to character Miguel Salazar, for their studio album ''Let Them Eat Red Velvet Cake''.

In ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops 4]]'' (2018), the final [[Downloadable content|DLC]] map for the Zombies mode is named "Tag der Toten" ('Day of the Dead' in German). It is a reimagining of the ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops]]'' (2010) Zombies map, "Call of the Dead", in which Romero appeared as a [[boss (video games)|boss]] zombie. In "Tag der Toten" his iconic glasses show up as a tribute.