Coming Soon: Sixteen MORE Screams For Halloween!

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Hello there! I hope you've all been enjoying my summer watchthrough and writeup of Quantum Leap as I go through it! I just finished Season 4 as of last night, and am immediately on Season 5. It's the last season and boy howdy do I have thoughts already from the first 45 minutes. Speaking of thoughts, the Season 4 writeups will be coming next week, starting on... let's say Sunday, because I'm going to be out of here for vacation time on the next Thursday and I would like to be here to link the last post on social media and stuff. As for Season 5, well... We'll have to see when I post those. At best it will be the last week of September... but I kind of like the symbolic nature of finishing the journey on my birthday, the 27th, and watching the final episode then. That would mean I'd have to post the Season 5 stuff at some point in October, which is tricky but not impossible. If I do that, it will go up every other day because in between...

THAT'S RIGHT, IT'S THE RETURN OF SPOOKY MONTH! Ghosts and ghouls and goblins and a whole bunch of spooky media, watched and yammered about by yours truly! It is our annual Halloween marathon here at Frezno's Raving Rants, and the second of the pared-down Sixteen Screams series. I used to do 31 of these but had to halve it last year because I was doing other stuff. We will halve it again this year because I want to post the Quantum Leaps early on alternating days, and then use the rest of the time to relax before November and NaNoWriMo and my fingers really bleeding. So, in anticipation of spooky month and since I wanted to get here and talk shop about Quantum Leap posting anyway, I went ahead and announced this and am putting the call out to you all because this is where you come in!

That's right, as always I have a bunch of shit I could do but have deliberately left open some space so that you wonderful Constant Readers can suggest spooky shit for me to cover in October during the marathon! I always enjoy breaking away from the kind of weird shit I usually cover for the weird shit that's outside my wheelhouse! It makes for more interesting and eclectic experiences and writeups for me, so that's all very welcome. I'm once again going to post my ground rule guidelines for spooky media suggestions:

-I have access to Canadian Netflix and Youtube rentals, and will have a one-month resub to the streaming service Shudder for the month of October.

-My only real trigger/phobia, beyond a very specific case, is wrist or throat slashing. If such scenes are signposted in the movie such that it's obvious they're going to happen, I can avert my eyes in time. If there's only one or two such scenes in the movie, it's fine with a warning. If it's something like a Friday the 13th or Sweeney Todd, where such things are the main method of murder, that's a hard pass.

-I am open to other media, like brief forays into TV shows or comics or what have you, but it's not my main area of expertise and I'll need a relatively affordable or even cost-free way of access to cover it. This part I may be able to handle better on my own this year, but it's a case-by-case basis and depends on context.

That should cover it. Let loose the floodgates and let's see what forays into the macabre, the terrifying, and the sheer spooktacular you've all got waiting in the wings for me to walk into with trepidation, a flashlight, and an open mind. I'm looking forward to it, as fall is my favorite season. Something about it being my birth season, I guess. Ah well, I'm rambling. I'm very tired and need to watch a shitload of Scott Bakula time travel show before I go in a week. Anyway, we'll be seeing you for those again starting Sunday, so leave those spooky things down below and see you for all of that!