Vulgar ~ This is a Kevin Smith Flick?

The film Vulgar has been railed against as having been aptly named in reviews everywhere. I'm about to go against that grain. (Shocking, I know.) This movie was brilliant. You won't think so at first, and maybe not even right after it ends... but if you sit and think, you likely will. I thought it so after the first 30 minutes.

Vulgar is not in anyway your typical Kevin Smith movie. Far from it. This is a very serious film dealing with things that will not sit well with the majority of you at all. Some of you will turn it off and not be able to see it through to it's conclusion. It's just that shocking.

It's about a guy named Will. All Will wants in life is to be Flappy the Clown and be able to pay his bills doing so. He enjoys kids in a wholesome way and, given who he was raised by, that's pretty surprising.

Well, in the war to make ends meet and keep his biatch of a mother in her nursing home, he comes up with this idea that he could expand his clowning gig. He wants to do bachelor parties as a gag. Show up in full clown regalia, only with fishnets and a bustier. See, he figures the bachelor will be expecting some hot hoochie mama to strip for him... then Will shows up. Actually, I think that would have been funny. It should have worked... but his first customers for his new alter-ego, Vulgar the Clown, are not real nice fellas. This gets brutal. I'm telling you again, this is not light hearted at all. This is a very dark film.

Vulgar wasn't real high budget, it even got turned down by numerous film festivals such as Sundance and Telluride... yet it was very well made. The slight grittiness adds to the atmosphere of the thing. The acting was superb.

Brian O'Halloran was Will/Flappy. No, I mean he was Will/Flappy... in the truest sense. He lived and breathed this part. You know him as Dante Hicks from Clerks and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, or any/all of Kevin Smiths other ventures. This is O'Halloran like you've not seen him before.