Dead & Buried background creation

The film was written by Dan O'Bannon, the gold medalist who wrote "Alien", as a storyboard script. Director Sherman originally wanted to make the film a dark comedy rather than a horror film. Due to legal protections against child labor, the crew could not allow the boy playing Jamie to film at night. But the boy's scenes all happened at night, and the crew had to build a shed on the haunted house to block the light to create a night scene during the day. For ventilation, a large exhaust fan was installed in the studio, but the noise generated by the fan caused a headache for the sound engineer. The recording of the same period had vanished, and all dialogues were dubbed by the actors in the later stage, which is why Nancy Locke's mouth often moved but The reason for not saying anything. The director wanted to complete a scene in a complete long shot, and the props team worked hard to design a human head that could be faked and melted. What bothered them was that the director used a split shot, squandering an opportunity that would have made the whole scene seem more real. The film is funded by three parties and supervised in turn. One of the investors asked to increase the excitement of the film. For this reason, the director added two off-screen stories in the original script: the drunk fisherman and the death of the doctor. However, when filming the scene of the fisherman's death, in order to connect the front and back plots, the crew had to use stunts, including borrowing and other means.