Scare Value Podcast

Scare Value Podcast

Horror movie news, reviews, debate and analysis.

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December 31, 2025 85 mins

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 trib...

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December 17, 2025 130 mins

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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December 10, 2025 107 mins

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.

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December 3, 2025 94 mins

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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November 26, 2025 78 mins

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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November 19, 2025 109 mins

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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November 12, 2025 97 mins

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 this week's Scare Value Podcast.

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November 5, 2025 72 mins

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 Serizawa?  Join Godzilla, Junior, Destoroy...

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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.

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Ten years after the original Halloween redefined slasher films forever...Halloween 4 brought Michael Myers and Dr. Loomis back for another round of Loomis of 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 mattered.

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October 22, 2025 92 mins

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 ranking shake out?  Click play to fin...

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October 15, 2025 78 mins

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 for the roleplay segment between pedo...

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October 8, 2025 120 mins

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 later sequel...forcing them to try som...

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October 1, 2025 71 mins

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?  Of course they will.

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September 24, 2025 88 mins

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.

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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 front of and behind their cameras.

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September 10, 2025 68 mins

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 someone like Norman Bates be sane?"  S...

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September 3, 2025 88 mins

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 difference.

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August 31, 2025 59 mins

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 save the podcast?  Will Pete see n...

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