10 Shocking Movie Scenes Directors Later Regretted

10. The Tree Rape - The Evil Dead

It’s strange to look back on the original Evil Dead - which was a scrappy, no-budget horror flick made by a group of friends - and see the effect it had on the genre. It turned Bruce Campbell into an icon, and gave director Sam Raimi a career.

It’s even stranger to think the guy who directed a film that featured a raping tree would direct three Spider-Man movies, but that’s Hollywood for you. It turns out this is a moment the director doesn’t look back on with fondness either. When asked in an interview with Jonathan Ross if he regretted it, he confirms he did, elaborating "Well, I think it was unnecessarily gratuitous and a little too brutal. And finally because people were offended in a way that I didn't...my goal is not to offend people. It is to entertain, thrill, scare...make them laugh but not to offend them."

While he regrets including the scene, for some reason a version of it was later included in the Evil Dead remake, which he co-produced.