 On the first day of shooting James H. Nicholson and Sam Arkoff of AIP turned up, announcing to Corman that they were working together again, as they were able to convince Pathé to bring the movie back to AIP after threatening to pull all future lab work with them.Corman employed Francis Ford Coppola on "Burial" as an assistant director.Contemporary reviews for "The Premature Burial" were less favorable than those for Corman's previous two Poe adaptations.