As much as I kid the MTV Movie Awards, Peoples Choice Awards and any other show allowing geeks to express artistic criticism in ways they'll be ashamed to admit in a few years, the fourth annual Scream 2009 awards for horror, fantasy and sci-fi flicks, presented by SpikeTV, are usually a hoot.

The show is being taped in Los Angeles this weekend, for broadcast on Oct. 27 at 10 p.m. on Spike.

Not only will the Scream awards pack 32 prizes into a 2-hour special -- take that, Oscar -- but they're more entertaining than a lot of the flicks they honor. A nice assortment of celebrities don't mind getting down and gory for a rabid crowd cheering dismemberment like it was the national anthem.

There's the usual best actor and actress prizes for each genre, and a thoroughly needless category for best sequel (wanna bet that New Moon wins next year?). You can see a quick rundown of the categories in the video clip above.

But three categories leap out like a cat from a closet in a 1980's slasher flick: scream song of the year, most memorable mutilation and "holy !@#$ scene of the year."

And those nominees are:

Scream song of the year: War Zone by Rob Zombie (Punisher: War Zone); New Divide by Linkin Park (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen); Other Father's Song by They Might Be Giants (Coraline); Desolation Row by My Chemical Romance (Watchmen); Decode by Paramore (Twilight); and Bad Things by Jace Everett (True Blood).

Most memorable mutilation: the arm removal surgery from Splinter; arms cut off by rotary saw in Watchmen; the eyeball cake in Drag Me to Hell; head ripped apart by Nazi zombies in Dead Snow; the pendulum trap in Saw V; and the swimming pool scene in Let the Right One In.

Holy !@#$ scene of the year: the swimming pool scene in Let the Right One In; the subway crash in Knowing; the seance in Drag Me to Hell; space dive onto orbital ball in Star Trek; the destruction of Manhattan in Watchmen; and the Death Eaters attack London in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.