Tommy Pistol | Distorted

He reminds us that the scariest thing isn't the monster under the bed. It’s the man on the couch who knows the monster is there, offers it a beer, and then laughs until he starts crying.

There is a specific frequency in horror. It isn't a sound, necessarily, but a feeling. It’s the moment the needle skips on a vinyl record you thought was pristine. It’s the glitch in the digital matrix before the monster appears. For the past decade, no performer in the alternative adult or horror sphere has embodied that frequency quite like . tommy pistol distorted

In his 2021 directorial work, he often plays the "loser"—the guy who is one bad day away from a manifesto or a breakdown. But here is the distortion: he plays that breakdown for laughs and for horror simultaneously. He reminds us that the scariest thing isn't

When we talk about "distortion" in art, we usually mean the fuzzy guitar pedal, the warped VHS tape, or the breaking of the fourth wall. But with Pistol, distortion is the script . It is the lens through which he views the intersection of trauma, comedy, and the grotesque. It isn't a sound, necessarily, but a feeling