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The Hello, Sidney Podcast

Episode 157: The Ugly Stepsister (2025)

The Hello, Sidney Podcast

Sidney

Tv & Film

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In this video episode, Sidney breaks down one of the gnarliest horror films of 2025, and a dark retelling of Cinderella, The Ugly Stepsister (2025).

Transcript

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0:00.0

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.

0:08.2

Horror and it's me, your girl, Sydney. Happy Friday. Happy Midway through January. Like I said last episode, I feel like it's flying by this year. Last year, I feel like January was the longest year of my life. And now I feel like

0:22.3

we're flying through. I don't know why. I don't know what it is. What's everybody been up to?

0:26.6

What's everybody been watching? I still haven't seen Bone Temple yet. So I am going actually this

0:31.7

afternoon because I'm filming this on Thursday. So I'm going this afternoon. So I will report back on

0:36.4

Wednesday. I am like, I can't wait to see it because I've been hearing rave reviews. Literally every single person that has seen it, I've genuinely not seen a bad review. Not one. All my friends who have seen it, all people just online who have seen early screenings, everybody I know who has seen it is raving about it. Even my friends who didn't

0:55.7

like the first 28 years later from last year loved it. And I liked the 28 years later from last

1:01.9

year. So I have a good feeling about it. I hope I'm not going in with too high of expectations,

1:05.9

but we're going to see. I'm seeing that later on, so I'll tell you guys about it on Wednesday.

1:11.8

But today, we are talking about a movie that is in my top three or four, at least, of the year.

1:19.7

And honestly, maybe one of my top movies I've seen of the last decade.

1:25.4

I love this movie so much.

1:27.1

We're talking about the ugly step-sister. And this movie came out last decade. I love this movie so much. We're talking about the ugly step-sister.

1:29.5

And this movie came out last year. It's a Norwegian film. And I got to see this movie at its

1:36.3

premiere at the Overlook Film Festival, which the Overlook Film Festival, compared to some other

1:40.9

film festivals I've gone to, it's a lot smaller. It's a lot more intimate.

1:45.4

And it's just specifically horror movies.

1:48.0

Whereas like Fantastic Fest, South by Southwest, those are like genre fest.

1:52.5

So they have a bunch of other stuff going on.

1:54.5

There's a lot of horror included.

1:56.2

But Overlook is just specifically horror movies.

1:59.0

And it happens in New Orleans, which is, you know,

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