Fewdio

19/08/2026

Narnia operates by Horror rules.

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11/08/2026

R.I.P.

A horror icon thanks to his fan favorite role as Reggie in Don Coscarelli’s multi-decade Phantasm franchise, actor Reggie Bannister has passed away at the age of 80 years old.

A personal friend of Coscarelli’s, Bannister first played the badass ice cream man Reggie in the original Phantasm back in 1979, later reprising the role in Phantasm II (1988), Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994), Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998), and Phantasm: Ravager (2016).

His iconic role in the Phantasm movies made a horror icon out of Reggie Bannister, who amassed over 50 film and television credits in the wake of the original horror classic. Bannister also appeared in Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation, Wishmaster, Bubba Ho-Tep, The Mangler Reborn, Cemetery Gates, The Rage, Doctor Spine, Bonejangles, and Killer Waves 2.

Don Coscarelli writes on social media tonight, “I lost my hero yesterday. I am very sorry to report that my dear friend and collaborator, Reggie Bannister, died yesterday at age 80.”

“In the Phantasm series, only Reggie could turn a simple role as an ice cream vendor sidekick into an unlikely action hero for the ages,” Coscarelli’s tribute continues. “He channeled himself into that role. All the fans who met him at the horror conventions could attest that in-person, Reg was cool, funny, loyal, and steadfast. Reggie the character was Reggie the friend. In real life, he embodied all the qualities of his character in Phantasm and no one questioned that Reg was that guy, the one willing to lay his body down on the fires of hell for his friends.”

Coscarelli also notes, “Along the way, Reggie kept up his music, releasing many well-received albums. He also partnered with his wife Gigi Bannister in a successful entertainment production company, Production Magic Inc., producing live event, musical and film projects.”

“Reggie Bannister was a gifted creative collaborator, a dear friend and he will be sincerely missed,” Don Coscarelli ends his tribute to Bannister. “Yes, Reg, to me and your legion of fans, you’ll always be Hot as Love.”

Reggie Bannister is survived by his daughter Ellen and his wife Gigi.

09/08/2026

The Lore, Pt. 4

The short that we highlight today is "The Tap," a nasty little tale of destructive seduction, as well as the culmination of a number of clues and connections seeded throughout the series. If you have not already seen - or haven't seen it lately, go ahead, take a few minutes and actually watch the video below, we'll wait for you.

Both of the previously referenced films, "Door 17" and "The Tale of Haunted Mike" include prominent shots of posters advertising a go-go dancer named Fey performing at a club called "The City of Dis." But Fey makes her first appearance very much in the flesh in "The Tap."

We mentioned the phrase "destructive seduction," right? Fey is the embodiment of the honey trap: sweet but poisonous, a gorgeous little sociopath that will have you thinking that you actually want her to watch you die a painful death. For storytellers, the real fun of Fey is that she works the same way both inside and outside the story. Inside, she lures the protagonist. Outside, she lures the audience. Hence, the choice of full-frontal nudity in the first minute of the film. The surprised audience, like the stammering hero, has no idea what to expect from that point on. And from that point on the gratuitous s*x and violence becomes increasingly unpleasant. Our hero keeps on delving deeper down the rabbit hole, though, doesn't he? He does so as long as YOU keep watching.

"The Tap" as a whole, and Fey specifically, was created as an experiment in that kind of audience engagement. The short begins with pretty, warm, golden-hued images of a bohemian pad in Topanga Canyon, and ends in naked awfulness in a cold, harshly lit basement in the valley. The illicit promise of Fey leads the audience deeper and deeper, out of simple curiosity or base prurience, until at last they regret having wanted to see what they saw.

One of the questions we are most often asked is why we chose to blur the nudity. Often fans have assumed that the blur was an attempt to avoid the YouTube ban that was slapped on the film in its first hour posted. In fact, the nudity was blurred from the beginning. A single unblurred version was created for the film's debut at Fantastic Fest (playing before the screening of the UK feature, “Donkey Punch”) with the intention of causing a stir. Fantastic Fest's main venue, the Alamo Drafthouse, was a temple of ultimate geek-cred and we knew that we could count on the cool kids and tastemakers to spread the word about FEWDIO, if we could just get their attention. (We did.) As for YouTube, we had always assumed that "The Tap" would be banned anyway. We wanted the ban. What good horror series goes unbanned? And the direct benefit of the YouTube ban was a sudden uptick in traffic to Fewdio.com when the lucky few fans who saw the film before the ban sent their friends in search of the "too hot for YouTube" short. The real reason for the blur? It makes you wonder what you are not seeing and why. If you are like us - you don't have to admit it - the blurs make you want to see what is being kept from you even more. It actually makes the nudity seem dirtier, more forbidden. And one thing you can say about forbidden fruit: it gets eaten.

In a fun gear-shift of expectation, after all of the s*xy tease "The Tap" throws a change up - the handsome young protagonist isn't interested in Fey at all. It's the drug he wants. It's the Tap that he wants. Fey just makes sure that he gets it. "The old-fashioned way."

08/08/2026

True

08/08/2026

It boggles the mind, but somehow “The Last House” manages to be terrible in every single imaginable respect. I found myself looking away in embarrassment for Wagner Moura and Greta Lee. Only the passable SFX manage to set it apart from the film-within-a-film that they appear to have remade, Bowfinger’s “Chubby Rain”.

BTW, this is the movie that Netflix promoted by having an actor live inside a billboard. It is every bit as terrible as “Apex”, which they promoted by having Charlize Theron climb a rock wall in public. Heed that warning in the future. Netflix promo stunt = lipstick for cinematic pig

07/08/2026

Never had. Always wanted.

Weebles haunted house playset

03/08/2026

Rest in peace, Helicopter Zombie. It was a heckuva stunt.

Jim Krut, Remembered Forever as Dawn of the Dead’s Helicopter Zombie, Has Died. SEE COMMENTS FOR DIRECT LINK 👇