9 Horror Movie Mistakes Confirmed By The Creators

Shock value is one of the biggest tools at the disposal of any horror movie in the modern day. Whether it is a jump scare, something particularly gory, or even something so awful and vile it was put there with the sole intention of offending audiences.

Tom Six built an entire franchise in The Human Centipede on the latter, and we can all agree that trilogy isn’t exactly the height of cinematic brilliance. It is also something that Sam Raimi came incredibly close to doing with one scene in particular in The Evil Dead.

The scene is iconic even now after 40 years, in which a woman in the woods is attacked by tree branches. They pin her arms and legs down, rip her clothes off, and slide up her leg and into her body. It is disturbing, a little too much so even for the man who directed the scene.

Confessing that he felt the scene was a little too brutal, Raimi regrets making it how he did. It was never his intention to offend, only to scare and to entertain. He came a little too close to the knuckle with this moment, and has never been tempted to go that far since.