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INNERVIEW | By Mark Kernes
Too Hard to Die
Tommy Pistol serves up horror porn
some point we need to choose another
actress to be the heroine, it could be Too
Hard to Die, Series 2. … We can always
bring back Bonnie and come back to where
she is since that time has passed, and we can
always have those two or three stars, and as
we get further into the series, they can all be
in it. … They’re all going to have different
stories about how they survived and how
they’re dealing with the apocalypse.”
Pistol first approached Smash Pictures
General Manager Stuart Wall at the 2013
Adult Entertainment Expo, and after Wall
saw what Pistol had managed to do with
Gruesome Death on what by any standards
was a minuscule budget, he signed Pistol to
create a horror porn series for Smash.
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“My goal is to make a name in hor-
ror and in porn and with horror porn,
because there’s not too many people
doing it, and when they did do it, it
wasn’t on a high level,” Pistol told
AVN. “In March of last year, I
released my first indie horror film
through Breaking Glass Pictures,
called The Gruesome Death of Tommy
Pistol. It’s a real horror comedy that
asks the question, ‘At what point is
your dream too much?’ So the movie
was very close to my heart, and it’s
gotten my name out there in the hor-
ror world and it’s keeping it strong
and basically gaining me respect.”
“My new project is going to be
called Too Hard to Die, and we’re
going to shoot multiple ones, and
Bonnie Rotten is going to be the star
of the first one,” he continued. “And
what’
s awesome about this is, think of
it as a comic book series about an
apocalyptic zombie world, where
Bonnie will be the star of Too Hard to
Die, Series 1: Bonnie vs. Zombies. If at
You might not know it to look at him,
but Tommy Pistol is an Actor, with a
capital A. After working in sketch
comedy with the group Cheese
Theater for more than a decade, Pistol
went on to appear in a dozen main-
stream projects from shorts to feature
doing [horror porn], and
films, and began performing in adult
in late 2005. He was 2007’s Best Male
Newcomer, and found universal
acclaim for his lead role in 2011’s T axi
Driver: A XXX Parody—and with his
”Not too many people are
when they did do it,
it wasn’t on a high l evel
new project for Smash Pictures, he’ll
not only be displaying his chops as a
director of adult features, but will be
pursuing crossover star status with a
group that’s near and dear to his
heart: horror movie fans.
“Tommy
’s film is getting a lot of press in
the mainstream world,” Wall said, “and we
viewed it, we liked what he did, and then
with this mainstream zombie film coming
out, Warm Bodies, the timing couldn’t be
better, because when you have something to
play off of, they just go hand-in-hand. Last
year, it might have been vampires; this year,
we’re all hip on the zombie theme. When
you think of zombies and horror, it’
s more
mainstream-oriented, but I want a title that’s
going to stand out in a porn environment,
and the script is going to blow your mind.”
But Pistol sees this project not only as
something that will get porn fans off, but as
something that will help cement his place in
the mainstream horror genre as well.
“I really feel I need to prove something
every time I do a horror project,” Pistol
admitted. “When I direct these, they’re going
under Aramis Sartorio, my real name,
because it’s still a horror movie, and I want
people to know that I’m still staying current.”
He added, “I put all my cards on the
table with Stuart. I said, ‘If we do it like
this, we could go here, we could go there. It
doesn’t have to stop. … I want to give it
legs; keep it running.’ I think I can do that.
And in horror, you can definitely do that. If
you give the fans what they want, they will
come back and they will like it.”
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