Bryan Johnson, Brian O'Halloran, Ethan Suplee

A loser with a crummy apartment, an odious mother, and a job that isn't taking him anywhere (kid's clown), gets a new idea. He decides to be a clown for bachelor parties, dressing up like a woman clow...( read more  read more... )n and play a joke on the groom. He goes to his first job, but when he opens the door he is knocked cold. What follows is a story of violation, fame, blackmail, and revenge.

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R, 87 min.

Directed by: Bryan Johnson

Release Date: April 26, 2002

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DVD Release Date: September 3, 2002

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  • July 15, 2008
    I don't know what I expected going in, but I think that if this movie had more faithfully lived up to its title it would have been a lighter and much better movie. Instead this movie is just kind of dark and sad and unrelentingly bleak. Everything about this seems depressing and ...( read more)really drags you down, which is a bit of a shame, because a movie called Vulgar had the potential to be a boundary-pushing, shockingly hilarious opus. The Vulgar the Clown character alone held such potential. It's too bad this ended up being such an oppressive, harrowing and tragic downer.
  • March 10, 2008
    Not for the timid, this films has a pretty bad rape scene in it.
    I think the film is really good though. Being a Kevin Smith fan, I had to see this; produced by View Askew.
  • December 3, 2006
    The first movie in the ViewAskewniverse that was not wriiten or directed by Kevin Smith, though he does make an appearance.
  • October 27, 2006
    fucked up
  • April 29, 2006
    A strange tale for people who like to rape clowns with thier sons. Pretty damn good.
  • October 24, 2009
    I found this movie on accident on VHS a it turned out to be the most twisted movie ever, in the first five min. the guy gets raped and it gets stranger from there. I think if you havent seen it give it a try and it might just help your food come back up!
  • October 10, 2009
    F@#$ed up! thats really all i can say.
  • September 16, 2009
    Really funny in some parts. Don't know if it was intended to be funny whenever I laughed but the Kevin Smith-like, pretentious dialogue doesn't go too well with anything in this film except for maybe the mother-and-son disputes. All-around terrible acting, the actors seemingly re...( read more)ading off of the script with false voice projections and gestures. A controversial topic in between really crappy ones - said to be disturbing because a fat male clown gets raped but it was frivolous.
  • April 14, 2009
    Clowns, rape, the cast of Clerks....

    definitely a dark comedy..
  • April 11, 2009
    Not as Vulgar as I remember it from when i was a lot younger but it still packed a punch. This film is still a very graphic rape-revenge film especially since its from the View Askew team that brought you Mallrats and Clerks. This is much darker, rarely attempts humor, and main s...( read more)tars (as well as directed by) Dante character from Clerks. Jason Mews is in it too and the guy who saw the sailboat rapes haha

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