Editing The Evil Dead (section)

===Editing===
[[File:COEN Brothers (cannesPH).jpg|alt=Two men in button-up shirts smiling.|Joel Coen ''(pictured right'') of the [[Coen brothers]] helped to edit the film.|thumb|right]]

After the extensive filming process, Raimi had a "mountain of footage" that he had to put together.{{sfn|Konow|2012|p=419–422}}{{sfn|Campbell|2002|p=129–132}} He chose a [[Detroit]] editing association, where he met Edna Paul, to cut the film. Paul's assistant was Joel Coen of the [[Coen brothers]], who helped with the film's editing.{{sfn|Campbell|2002|p=129–132}}{{sfn|Eddie|2010|p=15}} Paul edited a majority of the film, although Coen edited the shed sequence. Coen had been inspired by Raimi's ''Within the Woods'' and liked the idea of producing a prototype film to help build the interest of investors.{{sfn|Eddie|2010|p=15}}{{sfn|Pooley|1987|p=44}} Joel used the concept to help make ''[[Blood Simple]]'' with his brother Ethan, and he and Raimi became friends following the editing process.<ref name="thingstoknow">{{cite web|url=http://blogs.amctv.com/movie-blog/2010/10/evil-dead-facts.php|title=Ten Things You Might Not Know About the Evil Dead Trilogy|author=AMC staff|date=October 28, 2008|website=[[AMC (TV channel)|Filmcritic.com]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111227054237/http://blogs.amctv.com/movie-blog/2010/10/evil-dead-facts.php|archive-date=December 27, 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=July 12, 2012}}</ref>{{sfn|Pooley|1987|p=44}}

The film's first cut ran at around 117 minutes, which Campbell called an impressive achievement in light of the 65-minute length of the [[screenplay]]. The cut scenes were to focus on the main character's lamentation of not being able to save the victims from their deaths, but was edited down to make the film less "grim and depressing" and to be a more marketable 85 minutes.{{sfn|Campbell|2002|p=129–132}} Raimi was inspired by the fact that [[Brian De Palma]] was editing his own film ''[[Blow Out]]'' with [[John Travolta]] at the same [[Sound stage|sound facility]].{{sfn|Campbell|2002|p=129–132}} One of the most intricate moments during editing was the [[Stop motion|stop-motion animation]] sequence where the corpses "melted", which took hours to cut properly.{{sfn|Campbell|2002|p=129–132}} The film had unique [[Sound effect|sounds]] that required extensive recording from the crew.{{sfn|Campbell|2002|p=129–132}}{{sfn|Egan|2011|p=17}} Several sounds were not recorded properly during shooting, which meant the effects had to be redone in the [[Film editing|editing rooms]]. Dead [[chicken]]s were stabbed to replicate the sounds of mutilated flesh, and Campbell had to scream into a microphone for several hours.{{sfn|Campbell|2002|p=129–132}}

Much like ''Within the Woods'', ''The Evil Dead'' needed to be blown up to [[35 mm movie film|35mm]], the industry standard, to be played at movie theaters.{{sfn|Campbell|2002|p=129–132}} The relatively large budget made this a much simpler process with ''The Evil Dead'' than it had been with the short film.{{sfn|Campbell|2002|p=129–132}}