The second rape-revenge drama at Toronto this year (NOTE: magazine is referring to previous article about French film Base-Moi, or Rape Me) was also the winner of the Fest’s Truth in Advertising Award. Bryan Johnson’s Vulgar, about an anal assault on a children’s clown, inspired the sort of head-shaking, deeply disturbed responses you don’t see very often these days. No gleeful moral outrage here — many Vulgar reviewers were shaken, not stirred, by the dark comedy. Exec produced by the View Askew team of Scott Mosier and Kevin Smith (seen left with producer Monica Hampton and director Bryan Johnson), the film was born when Johnson, while hanging out at the New Jersey Quik Stop where Smith worked, asked Smith if he could write a movie based on the transvestite clown cartoon the Clerks director had just adopted as the mascot of his production company. The View Askew website (www.vi! ! ewaskew.com) has more info on the film, which Lions Gate will spring on unsuspecting audiences next summer. –S.M.