One thing I like about the porn industry (and there are plenty I don’t) is the sick sense of humor often on display. Everyone enjoys bad taste and taboo-flouting to some degree, and my “that’s not funny” boundary is way out there.
But sometimes bad taste is just … in bad taste.
Two months ago, pornstar Steve Driver went berserk with a prop samurai sword at a porn studio and killed fellow pornstar Tom Dong. (Those are their screen names.) After a four-day manhunt, Driver fell off a cliff while surrounded by police.
This week Robert Hill Releasing, which owns the rights to much of Driver’s and Dong’s screen work, issued a compilation DVD called Porno Samurai Killer. The company’s owner explains in a press release, “This movie is in honor of Steve Driver and Tom Dong (let them rest in peace) for their dedication and hard work for the adult business. There is no business without all the actors and actresses.”
Lest anyone take this “pour one for my homies” rhetoric at face value, here is the DVD box cover.
Porno Samurai Killer with Steve Driver & Tom Dong
Wow. Just wow. I’m pretty difficult to offend, but that did the trick.
(The Steve Driver image is taken from his 2010 role in Tea Bagging Party, a political porn parody in which he donned a Ronald Reagan mask.)
