15 Insane Movies That Shouldn't Have Worked

15. Rubber (2010)

On paper, Quentin Dupieux's surreal comedy-horror movie sounds more like a parody of art-house horror than a legitimate exercise in its own right, but rest assured, Rubber is a real movie, and a damn fine one at that.

Centered on a rubber tire named Robert that miraculously gains sentience and uses its psychic abilities to explode people's heads, Rubber states from the outset that it's a film governed by the notion of "no reason", and duly lives up to that claim.

While it would've been easy for this 82-minute romp to feel like a clever short film idea stretched past breaking point, the oddly involving nature of Robert's journey and the absurd interludes which throw clear shade at the nature of movie-going itself make Dupieux's film an against-the-odds success.