12 Important Moments from Sam Raimi’s ‘Evil Dead’

25:00: Tree Rape. That’s right. Tree Rape. It’s still to this very day one of the more forbidden moments of any film out there, and with good reason. A tree rapes poor Cheryl. It may sound absurd, and while it also looks absurd, it’s also a very disturbing sequence that arrives so early one may think the pic had blown its wad quite prematurely, but somehow, Raimi manages to follow a tree rape with some astonishing material that almost – for a split second – allows you to forget this entire scene. Remember, I said almost.

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