23 Movie Premises That Nearly Defy Belief

One of these involves a tooth fairy enacting vengeance

We complain a lot about Hollywood’s boner for sequels, adaptations and franchises, but maybe we shouldn’t. After all, the whole reason the industry likes them is because they’re tried-and-tested concepts that we know aren’t going to put people off because they’re fucking weird, and when left to its own devices, sometimes Hollywood gets fucking weird.

For example, “in 1994, the movie Junior was released,” Redditor xwing1212 told r/Movies. “It starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emma Thompson and Danny DeVito and was about a scientist (Schwarzenegger) who becomes pregnant. Arnold Schwarzenegger gets pregnant. What even is this movie?”

They continued, “There’s also the movie Crash (not the Oscar bait movie), which is about a TV director who discovers an underground subculture of scarred, omnisexual car crash victims who have a fetishized for car crashes.”

They then asked, “What other movies have some truly bizarre premises?” and their fellow Redditors were more than happy to get weird in the comments.

Surf Ninjas

Death Bed: The Bed That Eats

Predestination

Mind Game

Tammy and the T-Rex

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

The VelociPastor

Bubba Ho-Tep

Butt Boy

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

Darkness Falls

The Happening

Titane

Malignant

The Human Centipede

Pom Poko

Swiss Army Man

ThanksKilling

Joe’s Apartment

Ghostbusters

Labyrinth

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Plastic Bag

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