10 Movie Props You Won't Believe Were Re-Used In Other Films

8. Seven's Severed Head - Contagion

And now we have a rather special case of prop recycling, because the prop itself didn't actually appear on-screen in the film it was originally created for.

For the climax of David Fincher's masterful 1995 thriller Seven, where Detective Mills (Brad Pitt) is gifted his pregnant wife's (Gwyneth Paltrow) decapitated head in a box, a lifelike replica of Paltow's head was made.

However, Pitt ultimately convinced the producers not to show the prop to the audience, arguing that the implication was far more effective - and he was surely right.

However, over 15 years later, Gwyneth's fake noggin was dusted off for Steven Soderbergh's outstanding 2011 thriller Contagion.

Paltrow's character dies in one of the film's very first scenes, and her replica head was put to use in an extremely graphic autopsy sequence where her character's scalp is peeled backwards.

The thought of this prop just sitting around in a studio vault somewhere for so long is both hilarious and terrifying.