10 Most Spiteful Horror Movie Easter Eggs

Cult classic horror-comedy Return of the Living Dead certainly holds nothing back in the gore, nudity, or profanity department, enough that you have to wonder why any TV network would even bother making an edited-for-content version.

Yet it's extremely, bizarrely common in the U.S. for R-rated movies to get sanitised TV edits, typically either using alternate takes shot specifically for that purpose, or more hilariously getting soundalikes to re-dub any offending dialogue.

In the case of Return of the Living Dead, one of the more prominent edits involved changing the lettering on the back of Freddy's (Thom Mathews) jacket.

In the theatrical version of the film, the text reads, "F**k you," but these scenes were re-shot for TV with a message that could be enjoyed by all the family.

Seemingly not thrilled about the idea of having to shoot a cleaned-up alternate version, though, the filmmakers had a second jacket made with the phrase "Television version" written on the back, poking fun at the very idea of such a graphically violent and sexual film being edited for TV.

Sadly with the movie being almost 40 years old there aren't any images of the edited jacket available online, though somebody, somewhere, must surely have a grotty VHS copy lying around. Hopefully one day we might get to see it for ourselves. It's quality trolling all the same, though.