For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

The 30-second advertisement featured the game's two main characters Leon S. Tom Savini is also responsible for the makeup and special effects in many of Romero's films including Dawn of the Dead Day of the Dead Creepshow and Monkey Shines. After a limited theatrical release Diary of the Dead was released on DVD by Dimension Extreme on May 20 2008 and later to Blu-ray Disc on October 21 2008.

George Andrew Romero (pronunciation: /rəˈmɛroʊ/; born February 4 1940) is an American film director screenwriter and editor best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse beginning with Night of the Living Dead (1968).