10 Most Spiteful Horror Movie Easter Eggs

9. Taking A Bite Out Of The "Competition" - Jaws 2

A Nightmare on Elm Street
Universal

Early on in Jaws 2, an orca's brutalised carcass washes up on Amity Island beach, which Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) believes is the result of a shark attack.

While at face value this might seem like a typical plot point for a shark movie, it was actually a sly thumbing of the nose at the film Orca: The Killer Whale, a shameless Jaws rip-off which was released in 1977 - two years after the original Jaws - and unsurprisingly failed to find the same success.

Not content to merely imitate Jaws, though, Orca: The Killer Whale also arrogantly lampooned Spielberg's film by featuring a sequence in which an orca slaughtered a great white shark, in effect implying that Orca's titular creature was a major upgrade from Jaws' own great white.

And so, as great whites generally don't attack orcas in the wild, Jaws 2 dumping an orca's chewed-up corpse on the beach was Universal clapping back at Orca: The Killer Whale and throwing down the gauntlet.

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