20 Insane Upcoming Movies You Won't Believe Are Real

The overwhelming majority of movies made in any given year don't tend to stray too far outside the box, because if you want to sell your movie, you probably want to produce something that you know there's an audience for.

But it's also a relief that not all filmmakers are so firmly committed to producing easily digestible work that fits into a tidy, inoffensive box.

Every so often a movie will be announced with a concept or an idea that's just so out of left field its mere existence feels like an anomaly, perhaps even a miracle.

And that's certainly true of these 20 films, each of which has a premise so peculiar, so unexpected, or so horrifying that you have to question how it came to fruition at all.

This could be an utterly bonkers slice of horror insanity or maybe an act of corporate cynicism so staggeringly inane that it very nearly feels like something you'd see in the Seth Rogen TV show The Studio.

But believe it or not these 20 bonkers movies are all happening, and one way or another they're gonna each be a spectacle in their own right...

Hollywood will try and turn anything into a movie, and for concrete proof of that look no closer than Matchbox: The Movie - Apple's new action-comedy based on Mattel's Matchbox car toys.

Matchbox: The Movie stars John Cena as Sean, a former soldier who reunites with his childhood friends, only for them all to be kidnapped and framed, forcing the group to team up in order to clear their names.

Let's be real - this sounds like a parody movie you'd briefly see in the background of another movie, and while it seems incredibly unlikely that anyone involved is going to take this one particularly seriously, as a cinematic branding exercise it seems almost self-parodyingly cynical.

After Barbie was a massive box office hit in 2023, Mattel promised to start developing films based on their other popular toy IPs, and Matchbox confirms it wasn't just a ton of hot air.

This isn't to say the film will be bad, but isn't it basically destined to be a generic action-comedy with a brand name listlessly slapped on it?