How I'd fix it:
1) Show Raw Dog seeing "Elvis" and "The Army of Naked Zombie Women" onscreen, instead of just having him talk about them later
We see Raw Dog seeing Elvis. We think "what the fuck". Raw Dog thinks he's flipping because of the drugs. Then he sees the newspiece about the Elvis impersonator coming to town. "Oh, so that's it", Raw Dog thinks. "Oh, he's not on drugs after all", we think. Then he sees the Army of Naked Zombie Women, and all of that is broken. Then, in the third segment, we find that the Army of Naked Zombie Women is also real after all.
2) The black-clad cowboy is The Devil
I get the joke about the black-clad cowboy. Is he a local good samaritan? Is he a born-again Christian walking the Earth and doing good in the most rural Americana way possible? Is he God? It's a pity though, that he doesn't appear after the first segment.
Meawhile, The Devil is only in the second and third segments. The funny thing is that in his short scene in the second segment, he looks like a pastor trying to attract people to his church. It is not until the third segment that we get the reveal that he is The Devil and he is actually looking to buy souls from people down on their luck.
The solution: Make them the same character. When we find that he is The Devil later, we also realize that his intention was to make the guy kill his friends all along, and that the guy traded his soul for that gun without realizing it.
3) Johnny is the giant black truck driver
Instead of wasting that reveal on a cheap joke about a dwarf driving a massive truck and having a bad temper, let's make Johnny come to pick Theresa and the zombie women at the fair in that very same truck.
And as he helps Theresa get in the front seat (and the zombie women get in the back on their own), he looks to the fair and nods to The Devil, who nods back. With that alone you realize that:
- Johnny's long success as a criminal (and life in general, just look at his property) is because he made a deal with The Devil years ago.
- Striking a deal with The Devil involves pushing other people to misery from then on. It's not Johnny only who is condemning Theresa to be a farm animal sex slave, it's also Ricky the Elvis impersonator.
4) The cook's uncle is the meth cook
The cook's uncle only appears in segment 2. He is the guy who got the ring from Johnny to the cook, and he never appears again. By making him the meth cook, you explain why the cook's uncle is paranoid about Richard being a cop (because he has a meth lab in the house) and why the meth cook is on alert before the addicts go to rob him (because he had a fist fight with Richard that same afternoon). Besides, there is the bonus implication that Johnny did not lose the ring in a poker game and used it to buy meth instead.
Okay, we lose the irony of hiring Norman Reedus to play a character that has his face covered at all times. but that's ruined by the movie poster showing his face already.
5) The guy who had his bow stolen while taking a shit is the one who rescues Johnny
Since he saw Randy and Raw Dog stealing the bow, he runs after them (segment 1), but sees Richard and Cindy's accident and comes to help (segment 2, remember Richard and Cindy almost crashed on Randy and Raw Dog's car). He tells the already dead couple that he is going to ask for help at the next house, which happens to be Johnny's, and rescues him. This explains why Johnny is (inexplicably) alive and well in the movie's segment 3.
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