With a more polished script, and more fully developed narrative, this could have easily achieved that midnight madness feel. (modernhorrors.com)
According to Deadline, the Coen Brothers helped polish the script for the studio. (indiewire.com)
sees O'Bannon — who, dressed like Tom Wolfe, is unrecognizable from his shaggy Dark Star days — protesting his screen credit for Dead & Buried (he lent his name to the production only to help Shusett obtain funding, although he did polish the script) and becoming disturbingly preoccupied with the subject of eye torture. (filmfreakcentral.net)