10 Finished Movies That Disappeared Without A Trace

10. Glitterati

Right in the middle of the 2001 shoot for The Rules Of Attraction, director Roger Avary took the unusual step of taking a couple of weeks off to shoot a whole other movie in Europe, one which ended up never getting released anyway.

Rules, an adaptation of American Psycho novelist Bret Easton Ellis's story of college debauchery, featured Shannyn Sossamon as a virgin saving herself for her boyfriend until he returns from travelling overseas. Victor, the boyfriend, made no such commitment and instead spends his travels sleeping his way around Europe.

Victor is an incidental character in the movie and his European sex tour is summed up in a brief montage. So you'd think Avary wouldn't bother expending much effort on that part of the story.

What Avary did, though, was to travel, self-funded, around Europe with actor Kip Pardue. Pardue stayed in character as Victor for a whirlwind DIY shoot across London, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, Venice and Rome in which Avary captured 70 hours of video footage, from which Rules Of Attraction's short montage was assembled.

Meanwhile, Avary also assembled those reams of footage into another movie called Glitterati, inspired by Ellis' novel Glamorama, a Zoolander-esque story of Victor as a vapid male model-turned-terrorist.

Glitterati was announced as a companion piece to Rules Of Attraction, but never made it to release.

Described by Avary later as "ethically questionable", Glitterati's lack of public screenings is probably down to the fact that it is made up of actual footage of Pardue in-character behaving like a pick-up artist to seduce real women. That Rules Of Attraction itself kind of bombed didn't help either.