Le nécrophile (2004, Philippe Barassat)

I don't really know what to make of this one. "Le nécrophile" is a weirdo French short film about a bug-eyed wackadoo with a frog tongue he uses to catch insects with and platform shoes that seem to be connected to rickety leg braces. He takes his bicycle out at night and robs graves - taking the bodies back home where he presumably has sex with and eventually eats the remains. He also lives with a young girl whom he clearly feeds the human meat to. There's a suspicious young black boy with a soccer ball who hangs out in the street outside of the necrophile's house who eventually rats him out to the cops...

That sounds like a spoiler, but it's really not. The flick is only like 40 minutes long and is pretty dull, overall. They do this dumb dubbing thing for whenever someone speaks it sounds like trumpets or bird sounds, while a silent film-style French caption pops up on the screen. Obviously, they were going for some kind of 'avant-garde' thing here, but I guess I missed the significance. The film also gets oddly perverse around the end when a young girl is shown lying nude on a table as the necrophile - also nude - climbs on top of her and awkwardly prepares to fuck her. Not sure how old the girl was, but she looked pretty young... In all, I wasn't all that impressed with "Le nécrophile". I'm usually a fan of bizarro "art-house" films, but this one just struck me as silly. Especially with the zombies at the end...