It's time to put on your tuxedo shirts and whatever the female equivalent of that would be...and join us for the fourth annual Scare Value Awards.  Imaginary statues will be handed out to the best of the best in horror from 2025.  What will take home Best Picture?  Has the Best Final Girl trophy really been locked up all year?  Can an inanimate object be the Best Killer?  All these answers (and seven similar ones) can be found inside.

Credit to Myuu on YouTube for the piano music used during the In Memoriam.  That's right.  We brought it back!

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After the highs of the Nic Cage Jeopardy episode...Mark, Kitty, Pete and Bryan simply couldn't stop talking about various elements of modern pop culture.  Star Wars, Star Trek, Avatar, Stranger Things, Lord of the Rings...nothing is spared their inane chatter.  In an effort to keep the Nicolas Cage birthday celebration down to a reasonable length...all that nonsense is collected here...in this bonus episode.  What a bonus.

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It's that time of year again...a very special birthday boy is turning 62.  To celebrate Nic Cage's birthday the Scare Value Boys bring Kitty and Mark back to the show for a full game of Nic Cage Jeopardy.  Will Pete's Nic Cage knowledge drive him to victory?  Will Kitty having to listen to him talk about Nic Cage all the time lead her to an upset?  Will Mark's pop culture knowledge include enough Cage to win the day?  One of these things has to happen...click to find out which one!

Oh...and because they spent a long time after the game show chatting about complete pop culture nonsense...there will be a bonus episode later this week.  Just so we could keep this thing under two hours.  It got that silly.

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And Happy Birthday, Nicolas Cage!

Celebrate New Year's Eve with the least definitive top ten list around...the Scare Value Top Ten Horror Movies of 2025.  Pet's seen four of them...but it isn't (totally) his fault this time.  We've got some wild indies, fun theatrical releases and a couple of standout movie that feel like both.

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Kitty joins Pete and Bryan for their Christmas tradition...talking about horror movies.  Wait...that's every week.  But these are CHRISTMAS horror movies!  Rare Exports, A Christmas Horror Story and something called Santa Jaws are on the docket for this season spooktacular.  Plus...fantasy football updates no one asked for, a disgusting bit of business that Pete couldn't stop calling back to and the most unfortunate Rob Reiner tribute you'll find anywhere!

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The Scare Value Podcast stays in the holiday spirit with a watch-along of the 1984 Joe Dante classic Gremlins.  Kitty joins Pete and Bryan to talk about all the plotlines dropped at the first sign of trouble, unpack the mystery of Billy Peltzer's relationship with a child and discover how Futterman time works.  What better way to spend Christmas?

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Having miscounted weeks until Christmas the Scare Value Boys resort to their old standby...the watch-along.  After having so much fun watching a random movie that feels like fall...they decide to check out a movie that feels nothing like winter...2025's Dangerous Animals.  They have the time of their lives.

Instructions to watch with us are at the beginning of the episode.

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Ken joins us from Taiwan for the annual After Thanksgiving Mashed Potato Mashup.  We're talking about a bunch of movies we missed this year...with special focus on two of the best:  Sinners and Weapons.  There will be plenty of quick hits on other 2025 movies...and the usual load of nonsense.

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Our new annual tradition of giving thanks to an actor for their horror work continues this Thanksgiving Eve with a look at Toni Collette's best horror movies.  We're talking about The Sixth Sense (1999), Fright Night (2011) and, of course, Hereditary (2018).  Three moms.  One Toni Collette.  A lot of thanks.

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The Scare Value Boys have an unexpected blast watching this year's killer clown slasher movie Clown in a Cornfield.  Will you enjoy it as much as they did...or was there just a gas leak in the basement?  Cats are falling out of ceilings; bad guys look like Elon Musk and the most obvious unmasking reveal of all time on this week's Scare Value Podcast.

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