Leave it to Quentin Dupieux to bring together dubstep and comedy to create a film so off the beaten path, it feels more “performance art” than “arthouse.” In Dupieux’s latest low-budget sideshow film Wrong Cops, the French auteurist  combines further elements, with an ensemble cast of seasoned comedians and one gothic rock star that gives the film a special seasoning of the absurd. Though it is immediately easy to pick up on the film’s humorous tone, it takes a bit longer to acclimate to its weirdness. Though when both are combined, the result is another  bonkers Dupieux classic.The film centers on a group of cops that are greedy, corrupt, and childish. Officer Duke (Mark Burnham) is the ringleader of the force, and whose problems are far worse than that of his colleagues’. Making side money by selling pot-stuffed dead rats to kids (the rats are meant to be inconspicuous), abusing brace-faced high school nerd David Delores Frank (Marilyn Manson), and accidentally shooting his neighbor (Daniel Quinn) in the neck are but a few of the  crackpot events that make this character so deliciously weird.

Wrong Cops is the type of film you might expect to see playing on the after hours drug-laced TV channel “Adult Swim,” but with more traditional odes to its B-rated grindhouse genre