10 Hated Movie Scenes Directors REGRET Not Cutting

Sam Raimi's first film, The Evil Dead, launched his career, and it solidified him as someone who can create a horrific film on a meager budget. Over the years, he built off his early work's success, even going so far as to redo the film as simply, Evil Dead, years later with more money.

When Evil Dead hit cinemas, it had a lot more going for it than the original. More money meant better effects, and it also shifted away from horror into the realm of horror-comedy. While much of the content of Evil Dead mirrors that of the original, one scene was significantly altered.

In The Evil Dead, an infamous scene shows Cheryl being pulled in by vines from a tree. Instead of describing the graphically horrific scene, it's infamy is best summed up by calling it what it is best known as the "tree rape" scene.

Five years after the release of The Evil Dead, Sam Raimi said the sequence where Cheryl was literally raped by a tree was "unnecessarily gratuitous and a little too brutal." The scene was banned in some countries over the scene, and it earned an NC-17 rating. Fortunately, the version that did make it to the remake was completely toned down.