Unfortunately, one of Raimi’s worst decisions echoed through the franchise longer than it should.
TW: This article discusses the general topic of sexual assault and how it is portrayed in The Evil Dead.
'The Evil Dead' Features an Unfortunate Rape Scene The Evil Dead follows a group of friends who rent a cabin in the woods to spend their vacations together. Little do they knew, the cabin belonged to a scholar studying the Necronomicon, the Book of the Dead. As expected, the friends inadvertently unleash the horrors trapped inside the book, and one by one, they fall victim to the Kandarian demon and the Deadites.
Thankfully, Raimi was open to criticism and ready to learn from his mistakes from an early age. That's why, when he remade The Evil Dead as the first arc of Evil Dead II, he scrapped the “tree rape” scene and made the Kandarian demon possess Cheryl without any scene depicting sexual violence. Sadly, the “tree rape” scene reemerged in the franchise for 2013’s Evil Dead.
In an interview for Gizmodo, Álvarez revealed a producer asked him to rewrite the script and include the infamous scene. As Álvarez tells it, “I didn't write one scene, and [the producer] asked, ‘Where's my raping tree?’ So [types on the table and whistles] raping scene, there you go.” It’s easy to understand why a young director taking over a beloved franchise would feel pressured to follow a producer’s request.
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