10 MORE Horror Movies That Broke All The Rules
6. The Film Wants It To Be Over As Much As We Do - Rubber
A B-Movie that knows exactly what it's doing as a proud member of the 'so bad its good' film collective, Rubber is the story of a sentient car tyre that goes on a killing rampage simply because it can. No, no-one else knows why either.
Where this film differs from the usual entertaining trash you'd find rolling around the bottom of the barrel, however, is that Rubber challenges the medium it's constrained in as the movie plays out. Repeatedly, the film references its own existence as entertainment by celebrating a 'lack of reason', which is probably the best explanation you're going to get for a tyre, of all things, realising it has telepathic powers that it can go full, head-exploding, Scanners goodness with.
Rubber attempts to foil its own narrative with self-aware characters wanting it to be over with as quickly as possible, commenting on impatient and continually dissatisfied audiences as much as it celebrates fourth-wall breaking weirdness.
It's not what you'd expect from a horror movie billed with psionic car paraphernalia, to say the least, breaking rules and expectation with each flip of the narrative on shlocky B-Movie rubbsish.