Synopsis
Vulgar is about a man who is a children's clown but has not been getting much luck lately. He lives in a cheap apartment which he can't even afford. Bums are constantly sleeping in his run down car and crashing on his lawn. He has a nagging mother who lives in a nursing home, and his best friend is a moocher. One day he comes up with the idea to become a bachelor clown.
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Cast
- Brian O'HalloranWill Carlson / Flappy / Vulgar
- Bryan JohnsonSyd Gilbert
- Jerry LewkowitzEd Fanelli
- Ethan SupleeFrankie Fanelli
- Matthew MaherGino Fanelli
- Debra KarrMother
- Kevin SmithMartan Ingram
- Scott MosierScotty
- Jason MewesTuott the Basehead
- Walt FlanaganCaddy
Recommendations
- 75
New York Post
To say that Vulgar is not for all tastes might be the understatement of the year. For starters, this black comedy has a male rape scene that makes the one in "Deliverance" seem mild by comparison. - 20
L.A. Weekly
First-time director Bryan Johnson's failure to resolve the film’s two moods -- psychopathic sexual brutality and light social satire -- proves fatal. - 10
New Times (L.A.)
The acting tends toward the cartoonish (not in a good way), and the story is built on a series of illogical motivations. - 10
Los Angeles Times
Johnson does seem to have some psycho-sexual ax to grind amid all this visual and sexual crudity. For instance, women barely figure in the action, with Will taking on various stereotypical feminine attributes. But good luck finding meaning in all this mess. - 0
Entertainment Weekly
The only thing shocking about it, however, is the degree to which self-congratulatory gutter exhibitionism has become the degraded ash end of indie ''edge.'' - 0
The New York Times
Too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comedy, Vulgar is, truly and thankfully, a one-of-a-kind work. - 0
San Francisco Chronicle
It's impossible to imagine why Lions Gate, the indie distributor that released "Monster's Ball," would bother with this garbage. - 0
Variety
Inexplicably mixing lamer-than-lame "bad taste" comedy with yea worse traumatized-assault-victim histrionics, pic's only entertainment value lies in viewer weighing whether pic is primarily a.) offensive b.) amateurish c.) pathetic or d.) a cry for help.
