everyonelikedbubbahotep:

Jonathan Ross:  Do you regret putting it in?

Sam Raimi: I do.  I do.  

Jonathan Ross: On what grounds?

Sam Raimi: Well, I think it was unnecessarily gratuitous and a little too brutal.  And finally because people were offended in a way that…my goal is not to offend people.  It is to entertain, thrill, scare, make them laugh but not offend them.  But, I know a lot of nineteen-year-olds that are stealing cars and murdering people, not to make that comparison.  I think my judgement was a little wrong at the time.”-  

- On the tree rape scene from The Evil Dead, The Incredibly Strange Film Show, 1988 (Timestamp: 2:26-3:04)