10 Upcoming Movies You Won't Believe Are Real
These movies are all somehow getting made.
It's often said that originality in Hollywood is dead, and given the perilous state of big-budget cinema right now - where even good ones can't make money - studio executives are more averse than ever to rolling the dice on intriguing - if risky - unique projects.
But away from the world of glossy blockbusters, boundary-pushing filmmakers are still out there making their weirdo art, and somehow convincing someone to fund it.
And so, while our multiplexes are typically filled up with "been there, done that" cinematic content, these 10 films are so utterly insane, unhinged, and totally out of left field, that you couldn't be blamed for assuming they weren't actually real.
From totally bonkers art films to shamelessly absurd genre offerings and remakes nobody ever expected to get made, you probably won't accept these movies actually exist until you're sat down watching them for yourself.
And yet, whether they're ridiculous for good reasons or bad, each is at least swinging wildly outside the box of Hollywood convention and trying to give us all something a little different.
Whether it'll work in the end, of course, mostly remains to be seen, but here's to hoping...
10. The Substance
Every year at the Cannes Film Festival there's at least one big shocking movie that turns everybody's heads and causes some angry walkouts, and this year it was most certainly The Substance - the second feature from Coralie Fargeat (Revenge).
The film revolves around Elisabeth (Demi Moore), an ageing movie star who is struggling to get work and so uses a black market drug to generate a younger version of herself, Sue (Margaret Qualley), which she can temporarily inhabit. But of course, this inevitably has tricky complications.
Without giving too much away, critics have lauded the film as a jaw-dropping and at times disgusting delve into body horror that offers up a career-best performance for Demi Moore.
To see name Hollywood actors hurling themselves into extreme body horror is one thing, but for Moore to tackle such a daring role at this stage in her career is just massively unexpected in the best way possible.