Evil Dead II: The Mexican TV Cut or “Severely Edited For Television”

In the late 1980s, the Renaissance Pictures team was tasked with creating a cut of Evil Dead II that was suitable for television. The TV edit contains around 16 minutes of alternate or additional footage. Some notable additions are the burning of the Necronomicon and a possessed Ash eating a squirrel. In If Chins Could Kill, Bruce Campbell stated:

“Editing Evil Dead II for television was an absurd endeavor. The film, in its uncut state, races on through carnage and mayhem without so much as a second glance from my character and it all seems like a twisted Warner Bros. cartoon. Cutting the violence down, and lingering on my horrified expression, made the violence seem far more real and disturbing.”