Billed as Scream 2008, the 2008 ceremony of the Scream Awards, run by Spike TV, was the third annual iteration of the awards. The awards ceremony was held on Saturday, October 18, 2008 at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles and was aired on the following Tuesday.

The Scream Awards were an annual awards show run and broadcast by Spike TV from 2006 to 2011. The premier Awards Ceremony was known as Spike TV's Scream Awards 2006, however, for subsequent years, the show was relabeled to simply "Scream", followed with the respective year, i.e. Scream 2009.