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The Hello, Sidney Podcast

Episode 181: The Cleansing Hour (2019)

The Hello, Sidney Podcast

Sidney

Tv & Film

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this video episode, Sidney breaks down a movie with a unique and modern twist on your classic possession story, The Cleansing Hour (2019).

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 horror. And it's me, your girl, Sydney. Happy Friday, happy April, happy spring. Happy, I don't know, happy things. I hope everybody's having a great week and I hope you guys have been watching some good things. I don't know.

0:22.9

At the time that you'll be seeing this, I will be in New Orleans at Overlook. So hopefully I see some really good things there that I can report back on.

0:31.5

Honestly, I'm just so excited to be in New Orleans. It's like my favorite place in the world. I can't wait to go back.

0:36.2

I will continue going to this film festival every year because it gives me an excuse to go to New Orleans every year. And I just love it so much. So just know that when you're listening to this, I will be very happy. I will be fully engrossed in the New Orleans culture, eating the best food of my whole life, and again, hopefully watching some good movies,

0:54.4

but honestly, that is like the least of my concerns. Like, I just want to be in New Orleans.

0:59.0

Today we're talking about a religious horror movie that I think is incredibly underrated.

1:04.4

I found out about this movie through Shutter, as I do with a lot of movies. Same thing with

1:09.1

Dark and the Wicked, which we talked about on Wednesday.

1:12.3

And I think this is such just like a cool, unique, and modern take on your classic possession story.

1:20.4

I think it is really creative in that way because I think it's the first movie to put this kind of spin on it.

1:27.1

And also it has our horror king,

1:29.0

Kyle Gowler in it. He is one of my favorite, he's like my favorite actor in horror, honestly.

1:35.0

He has been around. I first fell in love with this man in 2009 in the haunting of Connecticut.

1:40.6

And I have just followed his career ever since. I've seen everything that he's been in since.

1:45.9

Red State. Red Eye. Jennifer's Body, The Nightmare on Elm Street remake, Strange Darling,

1:51.9

which is a more recent one. He has been in so much. He's done so much over the years.

1:55.7

Scream 5. Like he just pops up everywhere. And I love that. I love seeing him him in movies I love when he pops up I love

2:02.0

him so he is going to be one of our main characters in this movie which is one of the many reasons

2:06.1

why I love it but without further ado let's jump into the cleansing hour so this movie came out

2:12.2

in 2019 it's about an hour and 34 minutes it has a six a six period six period, six out of ten on IMDB, and a 73% on

2:20.6

Rotten Tomatoes, which not too bad for a horror movie. I honestly think this movie deserves a little

2:25.4

bit more because, again, I think it's really unique and different and unlike any possession

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