10 Horror Movies Where The Villain Is A Supposedly Inanimate Object

Quentin Dupieux's Deerskin finds its horror, and inadvertently its villain, in one of the most familiar places -- the contemporary gentleman's mid-life crisis. Georges (Jean Dujardin) buys a second-hand deerskin jacket for more than anyone might reasonably consider it to be worth, and gets himself a free digital camcorder thrown in for good measure.

He checks into a remote hotel and, cut off from his bank account by his soon-to-be ex-wife, poses as a filmmaker while roping in a local amateur editor to fund his new passion. Although Georges initially seems content to capture beauty shots of local scenery, his fancy new jacket has other ideas, and soon has him shooting a gonzo snuff movie.

Dupieux has made his career on the back of some wacky concepts, but while Deerskin is up there with the best of them, it takes a surprisingly restrictive visual approach, never actually showing the jacket doing anything of its own accord but merely influencing the people it comes into contact with. As he collects his victims' outerwear to be burned, fulfilling the deerskin jacket's dream of being the only jacket in the world, it becomes apparent Georges may have gone off the rails; but, no matter what, we still dig his killer style.