From MadCap's Couch - Kindred: The Embraced: "The Original Saga"

Alrighty! New series! Don't worry, I highly doubt I'll be touching on this particular one at any time other than October, so it won't be getting in the way of the regular series reviews like Doctor Who, Supernatural, or Sliders. Plus, with only eight episodes of this series existing, this won't take long.

MadCap's Reel Thoughts - "Halloween Kills" (2021)

Alright, so we've come to it at last. Is this going to be the glorious middle part of a trilogy like The Empire Strikes Back or is it going to be a horrible, horrible mistake like... y'know what? It's 2023 and I'm not beating that particular dead horse any more dead than it already is. Let's just get into it.

MadCap's D&D Builds - Axel Palmer (5e)

Well, we are finally down to our final build for Horror Month 2023 - Axel Palmer from the classic slasher 1981 slasher film My Bloody Valentine - which I probably need to get around to reviewing for a Horror Month at some point in the near future. Born in the town of Valentine Bluffs... somewhere on the East Coast of Canada?... Axel was the son of a miner who was killed after an accident in the minds had made him resort to cannibalism. Who killed him? The Miner, of course... A warning was left that, if the town were to celebrate Valentine's Day (the day of the accident), then the Miner would return.

As such, the town of Valentine Bluffs hasn't celebrated the holiday that they're named after... until 1981, when the town tried to reinstate the holiday... and the Miner did return as promised, killing again. Axel picked up the ol' pick axe and sought vengeance...

What If... the Trickster never reset the Timeline? (Part 2)

Oh, c'mon, you knew we'd be coming back to this one. I basically all but completely guaranteed it eight months ago.

As almost always now - spoilers below the cut for things I may not yet have covered in my Supernatural reviews. You've been warned.

From MadCap's Couch - Sliders: "The Alternateville Horror"

"He said it was called 'Shining' and then he said he had to meet somebody named 'Optimus'."

Oooookay, so it's been a long while since I reviewed Sliders. Like, a ridiculously long time. We are also, like the Quantum Leap review for this month, jumping a good bit ahead. Chronologically, we ended on Season 2. This episode is the eighth one of Season 4 and you'll notice some changes right off the bat.

MadCap's Reel Thoughts - "Fright Night Part 2" (1988)

Huh, well... kind of thought we'd be getting to this one much sooner. Like, much sooner. Regardless, we're here now and I can finally put this monster to rest with a stake through the heart.

This is Fright Night Part 2.

Madcap's D&D Builds - Christine (5e)

Huh? What's that? I can't make a character build around a possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury? That's insane? Ridiculous?

Well, you may be right. I may be crazy. But guess what?

I'm MadCapMunchkin and I can do whatever the hell I want. Let's do it!

What If... Freddy Krueger had never resurrected Jason Voorhees? (Part 3)

Last time... well, you all clearly read the description I gave last week, right? I mashed together multiple horror franchises with gleefully reckless abandon like I was a child playing with action figures.

But, the forces of darkness are powerful, but splintered...Freddy getting his monster mash on and Pinhead getting lost in the Necronomicon Ex Mortis. The good guys are not, even though they are currently running on just two and a head number of members (that last one most unwillingly) and have no clue where to go from where they are.

So, I know what you're all thinking... what happens next?

From MadCap's Couch - Supernatural: "It's The Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester"

"Dean, I just don't see Halloween-themed Junior Mints catching on."

See? I told you we'd be getting back to it...

MadCap's Reel Thoughts - "Doctor Who: The Movie" (1996)

...oh, you thought this was gonna be Hellraiser? Nah, I decided to bring you some real horror: The Doctor Who TV Movie from 1996.

It's only the 60th anniversary year for my favorite TV show of all time and the major plot of this does involve an alien parasite trying to steal bodies, so it's technically horror-themed if nothing else. Beyond it, of course, being one of the most controversial entries in all of Doctor Who canon, which is not a statement I make lightly.

MadCap's Fiction Corner - Seattle By Night: "Hell is For Children"

Seattle By Night is based on the Vampire: The Masquerade Tabletop RPG. It can and does cover serious subject matter and will not shy away from R-rated topics. Reader discretion is advised.

It had been less than a week since the Methuselah Lamdiel had come through Seattle. Well, the official story told among the Kindred was that a powerful Malkavian had tried to rise up against Prince Blanchard and had been taken down by a small coterie that was beginning to get more than a little attention. Eyes were on them, and just what had actually happened seemed to vary from night to night and from Kindred to Kindred. Nevertheless, the sun continued to set, the moon continued to rise, and life went on in the Emerald City just as it had in the nights before.

And, some might be foolish enough to think, would continue into the nights after...

MadCap's D&D Builds - Pinhead (5e)

Another Thursday in October, another D&D build of the horror vein. I guess that you can tell from the title, I have such sights to show you...

What If...Sam Winchester killed John Winchester? (Part 5)

Last time, we took another look into the world where Sam Winchester had shot the demon Azazel dead when the latter had possessed John Winchester during the events of Devil's Trap. On the latest part, Dean once more made the deal that would see Sam resurrected after being killed and the brothers teamed up with Bobby, Jo, and Ellen to stop Lilith and Ansem from opening the Devil's Gate.

As in the OT... they failed.

Also, it seems there's already some interplay between Heaven and Hell, as Lilith met with a grumpy Raphael to tell him that things were indeed back on schedule.

So... what happens next? Let's take a look!

From MadCap's Couch - Quantum Leap: "The Boogieman"

So, the last time that we left Dr. Sam Beckett, he had just leaped out of a Casablanca homage and into the body of the woman...

...so, are you ready for Quantum Leap to not only get weird, but spooky?

MadCap's Reel Thoughts - "Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan" (1989)

...yeah, it's a lie.

I know people have been making this joke literally since 1989, but it is. Literally the only parts of this movie's title that are accurate are which Friday the 13th movie this is and the word "Jason".

There is no taking of Manhattan.

There's barely any Manhattan.

I mean it.

...let's just get on with it. I'm already not happy with having to review this to begin with.

MadCap's Fiction Corner - Seattle By Night: "End of Madness"

Seattle By Night is based on the Vampire: The Masquerade Tabletop RPG. It can and does cover serious subject matter and will not shy away from R-rated topics. Reader discretion is advised.

MadCap's D&D Builds - Jigsaw (5e)

Another Horror Month and another set of Halloween builds using 5e rules for Dungeons & Dragons. Now we have a new banner for them - since the Tabletop Tales banner is now a distant memory - let's get into the father of the modern slasher film, John Kramer aka the Jigsaw Killer. A man dying of terminal cancer who uses his skills to put those who deserve punishment into lethal situations that they either sacrifice to get themselves out of... or die horribly as you can see in... well, any of the Saw movies.

I'm not a huge fan of Saw, but Epic Apathy (that handsome devil!) dropped this idea into my lap and it was too good to not go with.

What If... Jamie Lloyd was the killer after Halloween 4? (Part 2)

We caught back up with Jamie Lloyd, Rachel Carruthers, and the closest thing we have to Dr. Sam Loomis some nineteen years after Jamie stabbed her foster mother to death.

Needless to say, the reunion did not go well for seven people in that small town in Connecticut.

But, as we saw there, the body of Dr. Sartain had been left out in the morgue by a person or persons unknown. More specifically the mysterious Man in Black, whose motives are unknown and unknowable at the present. So, the question becomes... what happens next?

Let's find out, shall we?

From MadCap's Couch - Doctor Who: "The Curse of Fenric"

Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Ug-Qualtoth?

Alrighty, a little bit of a notice before we start. Generally in the past, the Horror Month TV reviews have been Supernatural. We will have a Supernatural episode up for this month. However, I decided that I'm going to change it up a little this time as the title of this post may have clued you in to. Rather than going with just one series - I'm going to skip around the various series that I've reviewed and pick a spooky episode from each one. So, given that there are five Tuesdays in this October, I have decided to review at least one episode from:

• Doctor Who
• Quantum Leap
• Supernatural (duh)
• Sliders
• ...and one other special thing, which may come from any of those series or something else entirely!

Everybody got that? Good! Then we can get on with this episode (the penultimate one of the entire classic show), one of my favorite episodes of not only the Sylvester McCoy era (which we've touched on before), but of all of Doctor Who in its entirety.

The Curse of Fenric!

Seriously, this is honestly one of the best episodes of the entire show. Old or new.

...no, really. I'm not even kidding.

MadCap's Reel Thoughts - "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984)

Well, with the release of my New Nightmare review, I really don't have any Nightmare films to review. This is a weird feeling. Sure, I could review Freddy vs. Jason, but I really want to save that for when I finish the Friday the 13th reviews, of which we still have quite a few to get through... including my least favorite one this year. However, this creates a gap in my reviews for Horror Month that hasn't existed since at least 2015. What exactly could I fill it with?

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...what do you mean I only reviewed the remake, not the original?!