10 Post-Credits Movie Scenes That Change Everything

9. Groovy Ash - Evil Dead

TriStar Pictures

If you're an eighties horror franchise then you've got a pretty set lot in life - iconic first installment followed by increasingly cheap and tacky sequels, before being finally buried a couple of decades later by a crummy, studio-mandated remake. There are, thankfully, exceptions, and few are as counterintuitive than The Evil Dead. Of course, The Evil Dead was never your typical horror franchise, with the second movie remaking the first and the third going flat-out bonkers, so not only was the remake semi-successful, but it actually reinvigorated the whole thing.

2013's Evil Dead wasn't just a simple retread of the definite articled original, but a wider expansion of the already crazy world. Half remake, half sequel, it fleshed out Naturom Demonto without invalidating anything that came before. Nowhere is this better seen than in the short-but-groovy post-credits sting, which sees Bruce Campbell reprise his career-dominating role of Ash (ahead of Ash Vs. The Evil Dead) to utter his catchphrase and stare down the audience one last time.

This immediately sparked speculation of a fifth film tying the two versions of the cabin together, but that proved too awesome a concept even for Sam Raimi.

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Film Editor (2014-2016). Loves The Usual Suspects. Hates Transformers 2. Everything else lies somewhere in the middle. Once met the Chuckle Brothers.