Scare Value Podcast

The Scare Value Boys are back and they're talking about 1988's Killer Klowns from Outer Space.  They loved the movie as kids...will it hold up decades later?  Of course it will...it's KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE.  They'll also touch on Sinners' dominant Oscar nomination run, the greatness that is 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and try to make sense out of the serve the Buffalo Bills through at...

The Scare Value Boys are joined by friend of the podcast Mark to discuss 1988's The Blob.  They have fun with the practical effects and awesome kills...while loving that extra bit of 80s wackiness.  Then, Bryan reads a prepared statement about the state of the Buffalo Bills following their latest disastrous ending.  Come for the destruction...stay for the reckoning. Check out our stuff on https://...

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 se...

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 bon...

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...

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. Check out all our stuff on https://scarevalue.com

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 t...

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? Check out our stuff on https://scarevalue.com

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. Check out our stuff on h...

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. Check out our stuff on https://scarevalue.com

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. Check out our stuff on https://scarevalue.com

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. Check out our stuff on https://scarevalue.com

Mark returns to the podcast to talk about the 2015 movie The Final Girls.  At least for as long as they can manage before Pete and Bryan pull the discussion off the rails again.  How will Pete deal with the emotional complexity of the story?  Did they really make a movie where Kate Winslet falls in love with Jack Black?  Is Ellis from Die Hard the true hero of that movie?  All this and more in thi...

The Scare Value Boys celebrate Godzilla week with a look back at one of the best kaiju battle movies ever made...Godzilla vs. Destoroyah from 1995.  It's the end of an era for the King of the Monsters...and a first-time watch for Pete.  Will he agree with Bryan's assessment that this is top tier Godzilla?  Or is Bryan just blinded by this movie's love for his favorite character Dr. Daisuke Serizaw...

Pete and Kitty detail their recent trip through Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights.  Just in time for the event to be over and leave you unable to attend.  They also touch on a local haunted house trip while Bryan patiently waits to talk about film festivals he's covering.  Plus...all the usual nonsense on this bonus episode of Scare Value Podcast. Check out our stuff on https://scarevalu...

Ten years after the original Halloween redefined slasher films forever...Halloween 4 brought Michael Myers and Dr. Loomis back for another round of Loomis or Myers!  That's right...the Scare Value Podcast Halloween tradition continues with a watch-along of Halloween 4.  Instructions to watch along with us are at the start of the episode.  Or...just listen without watching.  It's never really matte...

The Scare Value Boys try something new!  This week Pete and Bryan sit down to talk about all things Halloween.  The movie franchise...not the holiday.  They endeavor to find a definitive ranking of the long running series.  13 movies...some of the great...some of them fine...some of them so bad they're good...some of them directed by Rob Zombie...one of them starring Busta Rhymes.  How will the ra...

The Scare Value Boys return to Indonesia (really not really this time) to watch the sequel to Satan's Slaves.  It's a first time watch for one of them...you can probably guess which one.  He also can't remember anything about it despite watching it very recently.  Now you definitely know which one.  What will they think of Joko Anwar's continuing Satan's Slave story?  Come for the answer...stay fo...

It's that time of year again...time to try and convince Pete that The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a masterpiece.  This year we watch it side by side with Pete's preferred entry in the series...The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.  It's a dual screen watch-along!  Will this finally convince Pete that Tobe Hooper's original is great?  Or will he get swept up in the comedic moments of Hooper's 12 years lat...

The Scare Value Boys are back with something special...a look at the 1990 masterpiece Frankenhooker.  As usual...it's a first-time watch for one of them.  Will he love this beautiful piece of B-movie madness as much as his co-host?  There are exploding prostitutes.  Of course he will.  Will they wander off track to discuss Stone Temple Pilots concerts and the 1996 Keanu Reeves movie Chain Reaction...

We're back with our annual Spooky Season Spectacular!  Kitty joins Pete and Bryan to look at all the big horror releases coming out between now and Halloween.  At least...all the releases we knew about at the time of this recording.  If you want to know what you should be checking out this October...you're just a click away from finding out. Check out our stuff on https://scarevalue.com

With this year's Spooky Season Spectacular postponed for a week the Scare Value boys discuss two 80s horror comedies.  Pete picked this week's movies...and Bryan is left dumfounded after watching his picks.  If you remember watching House and House II: The Second Story as a kid...what better way to revisit them then by listening to two middle aged men argue about what in the world was happening in...

The Scare Value Podcast returns to the Bates Motel to check in on our old friend Norman.  That's right...we're doing Psycho II this week.  The sequel no one wanted that holds up far better than it has any right to.  Instead of taking the easy road and producing a cheap slasher to fit the movies of the time...Psycho II delivers a deep character study...posing the question "Will society ever let som...

By popular demand, Watch-Alaugust becomes Watch-Alember...for one week.  Having lost out on a week of August watch-alongs due to an unavoidable body swapping incident...the Scare Value Boys sit back and watch Re-Animator as it prepares to celebrate its 40th anniversary.  Instructions to watch along are inside...or just listen without bothering to do that.  You know it doesn't make much of a differ...

With the rift between the Scare Value Boys threatening the future of the podcast...Pete and Bryan sit down for a little couples therapy on this bonus episode.  Pete is holding a grudge about several lies told, and hurtful choices made by, Bryan recently on the podcast.  Bryan is equally upset about Pete's being angry about those very real things that he did.  Can they work through their issues and...