'I am most surely living / In the minds of farm boys: I am he who drives / Them like wolves from the hound bitch and calf / And from the chaste ewe in the wind. / They go into woods / into bean fields they go / Deep into their known right hands. Dreaming of me' - James Dickey, The Sheep Child 'If I made a movie, it would be about hot chicks.' - Howard Stern discussing Vulgar with Bryan Johnson on his show * In order to reconcile the offensive elements of the exploitation film, one must take them deadly seriously. This is a tricky business when dealing with a clown. The fool, the trickster , the dunce, the masochist. These characters straddle the line of relief and frustration , embodying our most embarrassing traits and yanking them from our hands so we never have to actually experience them ourselves , making them an almost androgynous saviour to all, transgressing the bounds of gender by universalising failure. Furthermore, Donald McManus deta...