10 Horror Movies With Terrible Concepts But AMAZING Execution

Horror movie concepts don't get much dumber than Rubber, which revolves around a sentient tire that goes on a rampage, using its psychokinetic powers to explode people's heads.

It's easy to close your eyes and imagine Rubber as a slice of no-budget schlock produced by people who had few resources beyond a couple of spare tires laying around at home. But courtesy of surrealist filmmaker Quentin Dupieux, Rubber is a top-level rendition of a laughable concept. 

Touting a peculiar yet transfixing meta frame narrative, Rubber is more-or-less a satire of contemporary moviegoing, and especially our desperate desire for all film narratives to make sense. It is a film that verbally confesses its commitment to "no reason" upfront, and absolutely follows through for the remainder. Beyond that, the tire-murder sequences are genuinely unsettling and well-executed in their own right, even if the film is a fundamentally absurd piece of work.

In different hands, Rubber would probably be a one-dimensional joke that grows old fast, but Dupieux's deeply left-field sensibilities keep this one feeling fresh and beguiling all the way to the end.