Welcome to part 1 of the first annual Scare Value Horror Movie Awards! Essentially…our version of a 2022 Horror Movie Awards. Today we will award some non-traditional categories for the year that was. These are the more…fun awards. Today we crown Best Kill, Best Final Girl, Best Killer, Best Twist. and Best Gore Effects. Needless to say, there will be spoilers.
We will also be inducting the first movie into the Scare Value Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame is reserved for the greatest, most important or most influential horror movies in history.
Tomorrow we will be back with part 2 of the awards where we will give out some more traditional recognition. Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director, and, of course, Best Picture will be awarded. We will also induct the second chosen film into the Hall of Fame.
So, let’s not waste any more time. It’s been a great year for horror movies. We have a lot to cover.
2022 Scare Value Awards
Best Final Girl
These characters made it to the end of their nightmares, now one will be rewarded with the first ever Scare Value Award. The nominees for Best Final Girl are…
Noa in Fresh
Emerald Haywood in Nope
Naru in Prey
Sienna Shaw in Terrifier 2
Julia in Watcher
It’s not a surprise to see a strong class in this category. Each of the five films present a unique obstacle for its heroine to overcome. In Watcher, Julia must rely on her own instincts in the face of disbelief and isolation. Emerald Haywood faces off with, and conquers, the unknown. In Prey, Naru goes head-to-head with a freaking Predator. Sienna Shaw’s final girl is given mythic status in the epic slasher Terrifier 2. In Fresh, Noa turns the tables on her captor by using his own seduction methods against him.
This is an exceptionally tough group to pick a winner from. In the end we kept coming back to Sienna Shaw and Noa. Sienna Shaw’s rise to final girl is the lifeblood of Terrifier 2. The film creates a worthy adversary for its iconic killer Art the Clown. Noa’s journey is much quieter and more personal…but arguably more compelling. The tactics she uses to outwit her monster stand as the cleverest of 2022. In the end…Noa’s brilliance in seducing her seductor won out.
The Scary Goes To…
Noa in Fresh
Fresh is streaming now on Hulu
Best Killer
Every horror movie needs its monster. These five rose above the rest to earn special recognition. The nominees for Best Killer are…
Ben in The Innocents
Pearl in Pearl
The Businessman in The Sadness
Cecilia in Sissy
Art the Clown in Terrifier 2
From pure evil to tragic, 2022 gave us a great crop of murderous crazies. The titular Pearl is a woman trapped in a life she’s afraid she can never escape…and God help anyone who tries to stop her. In The Innocents, Ben is an irredeemable monster who inverts the “save the cat” moment to make sure we don’t forget it. Art the Clown continues his rampage of random and excessive violence in his larger scaled sequel. In Sissy, Cecilia desires the safety of fake reality over the horrors of the real world…and she will have it no matter the cost. The Businessman is a relentless violence machine hell bent on avenging a perceived sleight.
Art the Clown and The Businessman are seemingly unstoppable instruments of mayhem. Cecilia and Pearl will stop at nothing to ensure their desired realities. Ben is the least innocent kid you’re going to find. Whoever took down this 2022 horror award had to have something that stood out from the pack. In the end…that turned out to be a pure joy for their work.
The Scary Goes To…
Art the Clown in Terrifier 2
Terrifier 2 is streaming on Screambox.
Best Gore Effects
Sometimes your horror just needs a little blood and guts. These five films needed a lot of them…and provided stellar splatter. The nominees for Best Gore Effects are…
Terrifier 2 and The Sadness bathe themselves in the blood of the innocent. Bones and All take a more artistic, but no less effective approach. Feed Me makes a meal out of its severed limbs…literally. And say what you want about Halloween Ends…but they knew how to spray that blood and shatter those faces.
Each of these films deploys very effective blood and gore. The winner came down to which film created the most visceral response to it. Feed Me and Bones and All can make you feel uncomfortable. Halloween Ends can give you a shock moment or two. Terrifier 2 makes you stare at it longer than anyone ever has. In the end, The Sadness made a whole world out of it.
The Scary Goes To…
The Sadness
The Sadness is streaming on Shudder.
Best Twist
A great twist can elevate a movie to must watch status. Or at least “must tell everyone I know that they have to watch this movie…but I can’t tell you why” status. These are those movies for 2022. The nominees for Best Twist are…
What happened to David – Bodies Bodies Bodies
Monique talks to the demonologist – The Harbinger
Why Li is filming all of this – Incantation
“Yeah kid, she does” – Orphan: First Kill
It’s not who you think – Significant Other
The best twists make you rethink everything you’ve seen and result in a rewatch providing a completely new experience. Three of the nominees (Incantation, Bodies Bodies Bodies and The Harbinger) save their twist until near, or at, the end of the movie. Significant Other and Orphan: First Kill deploy their much earlier to change the film into something completely different.
Each of these twists work in their own way. The Harbinger hits you with a shiver down your spine as you realize what you’ve been watching the last ten minutes isn’t what you hoped. Bodies Bodies Bodies provides one of the best laughs of the year when you learn the truth about the inciting incident for the movie’s madness. Incantation is a brilliant narrative payoff to both the found footage trope and story itself. Significant Other makes you believe one thing and then turns it completely on its head. Orphan: First Kill takes an already insane premise and dials it up to 11 with one of the most off the rails twist since…well…the first Orphan. All great viewing experiences. But we’ll always side with the crazy.
The Scary Goes To…
Orphan: First Kill
Orphan: First Kill is streaming on Paramount+
Best Kill
From First Kill to Best Kill. Let’s be honest…if you love horror movies, the kills matter. Whether they be shocking or sad, violent or necessary. These five kills stood out in 2022. The nominees for Best Kill are…
David’s amateur sword play – Bodies Bodies Bodies
Corey is a bad babysitter – Halloween Ends
Naru vs. Predator – Prey
Art the Clown terrorizes Allie – Terrifier 2
The gator is hungry – X
It feels like the nominees for this 2022 horror award covers five different types of kills. The Bodies Bodies Bodies kill is pure comedy. Prey‘s kill is a relief after an extended battle. Art the Clown’s most prolonged scene of violence is played to unsettle in Terrifier 2. X pays off something you hope you’ll get to see when you are introduced to the farm’s resident alligator. Whatever you think of the Corey Cunningham of Halloween Ends the opening scene ends with an absolute shocker.
There’s something to be said for Naru’s takedown of the Predator. It’s the culmination of her entire journey and the capper for a brilliant film. That’s enough to raise it above the hilarity of Bodies Bodies Bodies and a character becoming gator food in X. It’s even enough to elevate it past our 2022 Best Killer Art the Clown’s signature Terrifier 2 kill. But it can’t top the feeling you had the first time you saw just how bad of a babysitter Corey Cunningham was. The rest of Halloween Ends may not have been what you wanted it to be…but for that moment it was so much more.
The Scary Goes to…
Corey is a bad babysitter – Halloween Ends
Halloween Ends is streaming on Peacock
2022 Scare Value Hall of Fame Inductee
Each year two films will be selected to join the Scare Value Hall of Fame. These movies are the best of the bets in horror history. They can be important of influential…or just a hell of a lot of fun. Our second inductee will be unveiled in Part 2 of the 2022 Sare Value Awards tomorrow. As for the first movie to be enshrined for all eternity in the upper echelon of horror history (or…you know…our non-physical Hall of Fame), the choice was easy.
Halloween
John Carpenter’s 1978 masterpiece, Halloween is in its fifth decade of influencing a genre of film. It has yet to be topped. Halloween gives us our greatest Final Girl, Laurie Strode. A killer as unstoppable as he is everlasting, Michael Myers. A score that is instantly recognizable even to the people who have never seen it. Halloween wasn’t the first slasher film…but it is THE slasher film.
Read our full Halloween review.
Thank you for checking out part 1 of our version of our 2022 Horror movie awards. The 2022 Scare Value awards will return tomorrow to award Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Screenplay…and to induct another film into the Scare Value Hall of Fame.
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