I recently learned of the passing of Stuart Feedback Andrews. He was our co-host on the Adventures of Ford Fairlane episode but, more than that, he was a friend.
I don’t remember how or where I met Stuart. Despite what listeners may think, my memory, especially about myself, is rubbish. I'm sure a mutual friend must have introduced us as I have a number of friends in Toronto.
When I met Stuart he was still the host of the Rue Morgue Radio podcast. I know we had talked via email before we met in person. I’m pretty sure I met him in December 2010 where I had set up a screening of John Paizs’s Crime Wave at the Toronto Underground Cinema. If I remember right, I met up with a lot of friends including Mr. Paizs, for dinner beforehand and I was either almost or actually late because of Stuart.
Stuart could talk -- and, as evidenced by this show, so can I. We got together at the Rue Morgue HQ which, on a Saturday, was completely empty. Stuart showed me around a bit and then we sat down to talk about the book, Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection, and mostly Quentin Tarantino for at least four hours -- if not more.
Now, that episode of Rue Morgue Radio never came out. And me, like a dope, went back again to the studio on another trip to Toronto -- that might have been 2017 but I think it was earlier. Whenever it was, I sat with Stuart again for at least another five hours where we discussed Columbo -- going through the NBC years episode by episode. Again, that was never aired. I’m not sure if either of those even got edited. Stuart was an inspiration when it came to editing as I loved how his Rue Morgue episodes would cut in sound clips, trailers, and songs as the episodes went along.
Stuart was an odd bird. I remember him complaining that Rue Morgue kicked him off the air and that they were taking all of his episodes down. He gave me a lot of details of this that I don’t want to get into too much here. I don’t really want to make any new enemies.
I don’t know why he didn’t have back-ups of all of his shows and published them himself or at least had them available for download somewhere else. Or maybe he did and just didn’t care.
He has done a radio show on CKLN-FM 88.1 and I remember even going to the studio with him either on that first time I met him or another. The show was Cinephobia Radio and he turned it into a podcast as well. I’ll admit that I had a hard time keeping Cinephobia and Rue Morgue Radio straight as Stuart had such a strong personality that they both seemed like one show.
He also had a very interesting use of language. He already had the English accent -- I think it might have been a Liverpudlian accent but he emphasized those melodic tones in his voice with his vocabulary that brought in bits of Nadsat like “Slooshy Well” or, rather than Chodes, he’d say “Chones” and double down on this with a Cinephobia episode called “Attack of the Chones”.
I always enjoyed listening to his shows despite some of the dramatics and behind-the-scenes drama that would bleed through into the episodes. I remember it took a long time before I could tolerate Stuart’s co-host, “Last Chance” Lance. I ended up meeting Lance in person once and he was a decent bloke and I wonder if he was supposed to be as obnoxious on air as he came off.
I met Lance at one of the two Fanexpo events that I was invited to. That’s where I moderated Q&A sessions one year for Orlando Jones and Danny Trejo, and the next for Christopher Lloyd. And who did I have to thank for that gig? Mr. Stuart Feedback Andrews. He looked out for me.
In 2013, Stuart was responsible for connecting me with the person who figured out that Lianne "Spiderbaby" MacDougall was a serial plagiarist just like her then-boyfriend Quentin Tarantino. Stuart gave me just enough information and forwarded enough emails for me to piece together the same evidence that Paul - is it okay to finally say it was Paul Corupe who did all the hard work for that? Anyway, it’s been 12 years. I always wanted to give Paul credit and I felt bad being something of the “public face” of unmasking the scandal but I was far enough away from it and had my reputation of being a burr under Tarantino’s butt to maintain.
Back in 2015, Stuart latched on to a story about Tarantino’s buddy, Eli Roth. 2015 was an interesting year for Roth as his cannibal movie, Green Inferno, had a US Theatrical run starting September 25, 2015 -- despite it playing the Toronto Film Fest back in 2013. He also had the remake of Death Game called Knock Knock coming out October 9, 2015.I remember being reached out to and asked if I could please give Knock Knock ten stars on IMDb in what felt like a weird marketing effort. I definitely was going to the IMDb page for Knock Knock as I was trying to correct the credits as there were no mentions of it being a remake and based on a previous script. Though, I’d ask for people to listen to our two Death Game episodes to find out more about the writers and the antecedents for Death Game.
Anyway, there was also another marketing plan going on for Green Inferno and that was a fake petition on Change.org trying to ban the film. Stuart took to the air to debunk the petition and take the piss out of the pissed off people who were outraged by the petition, not knowing its spurious origin.
Going back to the idea of Stuart’s digital footprint, his Cinephobia episodes are in short supply. I did my best to try and even find just how many episodes he did. I know it was at least 35 but this was over a long period of tim. Maybe as long as from 2007 to 2025. It’s unclear. And just a handful of those survive.
If people have those collected or even individual episodes, please send them along and I will start an archive of them.
All of the removal of episodes or recording things and never releasing them felt like self-sabotage more than anything. Stuart had a paranoid streak and this came out in spades via the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and the COVID pandemic in 2020. Stuart and I talked to each other just a few times after that. I was still friends with him on Facebook up until at least December of 2022. I had long before ignored his posts on Facebook which kept getting more and more unhinged.
Stuart had to be right about everything he thought and that everyone was entitled to his opinion. I don’t know when he fell off or if he’d even identify as such but he became a big time anti-vaxxer. His Twitter feed is filled with things like calling Anthony Fauci a modern Mengele and terms like “Moderna Gate.” Suffice it to say, I had to cut him out of my life but I doubt he even noticed or cared.
The last I heard from him was December of 2022 when he told me this:
I live in Niagara. I work in medical cannabis and manage the building where I live (12 units). I also produced the movie PG (Psycho Goreman) which requires constant attention.
And I know I've threatened this before, but I am resurrecting my old podcast.
Going through some of this old stuff is part of the process.
But this time, it's not going to be all nice and cuddly like it was before. This time, it will be weaponized.
And he concluded with this:
I'm retiring at 77 and will completely remove myself from all public platforms.
I will die at 83.
That's the plan.
The plan didn’t work out.
Stuart passed away at 57 years old on November 23, 2025. I don’t know how he passed but I hope it was peaceful.
It was only after hearing that he went that I learned that Stuart Andrews wasn’t his real name. Stuart went under that nom de guerre as well as having another facebook profile under Daniel Stuart Morton but the listing for his cremation has him as Andrew Stuart Morton.
Whatever his name, he made quite an impact on my life and I appreciate all he did for me and the horror community. He loved to stir up shit, and I so liked that about him. He will be missed.
