Hello? Hello, Sydney. What is up, you spooky bitches? We are back with another episode of the Hello Sydney podcast here, a podcast for horror lovers where we discuss any and all things horror, and it's me, your girl, Sydney. Christmas Eve, by the time you guys are listening to this, if you listen to it on Wednesday, it will be Christmas Eve. Happy Christmas Eve. Mary, what the fuck am I? British? Why did I just say Happy Christmas? Happy Christmas. It's funny because I think I was just thinking about how last episode I outed myself about how my family, though very

not British, does the British crown tradition for whatever fucking reason. That was a Freudian slip.

Suddenly, I guess I think I'm British. Anyway, Merry Christmas. Merry fucking whatever you celebrate.

Happy holidays. I don't know. I hope everybody's having a good time watching some good movies,

eating some good food. My thoughts have still been

absolutely consumed by heated rivalry. If anything, it's even worse. I simply cannot focus on

anything else. My cousin just called me a little while ago to talk about stranger things because

he finally just like did a full rewatch and rewatched like, or watched for the first time,

the first four episodes of season five. And he's like freaking out about it and trying to talk. And I'm like, all I can think about is fucking heated rivalry. Like, I don't even care about stranger things. That's how deep my obsession with these gay hockey players is. It's not even a fucking joke anymore. I belong in a padded room. No, of course, I'm excited about stranger things. I know I just really wish, and I might have said this last

episode, I wish they did like an It Welcome to Derry or like a heated rivalry thing where they just did an episode a week because it's hard to kind of hold on to the excitement that I had for it like a month ago at this point. Like if they did it week by week, I'd be a lot more excited. But alas, they didn't fucking do that. Probably because Netflix,

something to do with fucking Netflix. I don't know. Um, what else did I do since last episode? I went to

L.A. and I went to the TikTok Awards, which kind of a shit show, to be honest. You can tell it was

definitely the first one. There were quite a lot of technical difficulties, which obviously is nobody's

fault, but it was interesting to watch

in real time. So, yeah, that was interesting to see. And I'll be interested to see if they do

future ones after this. It was an experience. And I'm very happy I was there. I got to meet Keith Lee,

which was super cool. I've been following Keith Lee for years. So that was like kind of surreal to actually see him in person. Anyway, on to the more important things, which was super cool. I've been following Keith Lee for years, so that was like kind of surreal to

actually see him in person. Anyway, on to the more important things, which of course is today's

episode. I did endure Silent Night, Deadly Night, four and five for the first time. And while I can say

that it was better than the third movie, like it was a better experience overall. At least it was more entertaining. They're still not good, guys. This franchise is just not fucking good. I will say the third movie that we're discussing today, which is the 2012 version, which is like a loose remake of the first one. I actually very much like that one. And like I've already said, I love the 202525 version. That is like the best one by far because it takes the story but makes it, it just enhances it so much. But before we get to the good, let's talk about the bad. Because today we're starting out with Silent Night Deadly Night 4, which is called Initiation. And this movie came out in 1990. So like a year after the fucking hot mess that is Silent Night, Deadly Night 3.

The fourth Silent Night Deadly night is about an hour and a half long.

It has a 4.3 on IMDB and an 18% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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