10 More Horror Movie Villains With Absolutely No Motive

10. Jean Jacket - Nope

While Nope may not be Jordan Peele's strongest film, it does have some major classic horror movie vibes to sink your teeth into, with a deliciously mysterious antagonist from outer space.

The creature, a saucer-shaped UFO nicknamed Jean Jacket, menaces folks in the canyons of the Southern Californian desert, preying on people and their horses and vomiting up their clothes, trinkets and other undigestible parts all across the local area.

Acting in an effort to protect themselves and their farm, - while avenging the untimely death of their father (Keith David) - horse-wrangling siblings OJ and Em Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer) study Jean Jacket's movements, habits and eating schedule in order to work out what makes the extra-terrestrial monster tick.

While the pair manage to find a way to bring Jean Jacket down, tricking it into revealing and exposing itself before destroying it for good with an exploding helium balloon, they don't manage to convene with it in any meaningful way. Sure, we know it's a predator stalking this territory for sustenance, but we never find out why it chose this patch of California to settle over, where it comes from, or what it wants.