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 last Friday of May. Happy last episode of May. Last episode of Heartbreak

horror. We got through it, guys. We lived. We may have shed a few tears,

but we made it. We're here. And today, by popular demand, we're covering Pan's Labyrinth,

which I watched for the first time for this episode. And I think my life is better. I think it's

worse, but better. I think it's worse because, yes, it is devastating, but I think my life is better. I think it's worse, but better. I think it like, it's worse because, yes, it is

devastating, but I think it also has a kind of a weirdly happy ending. Like, it's kind of a positive

ending at the same time. Absolutely devastating. Absolutely beautiful. Absolutely incredible. I

finally understand why people talk about this movie all the time and why it's so highly regarded. I can't believe I didn't watch it sooner. I kick myself in the ass for that. Honestly, what a beautiful, incredible, wonderful movie created by a wonderful, incredible, beautiful, lovely man, aka Guillermo del Toro, who wrote and directed this movie. And before we start

talking about the movie, I want to give a little background of what he went through to get

this movie made and just how passionate he was about it, because it just, I've always respected

him as a filmmaker, but learning all of this just made me love him and respect him even more.

And he's just, he's, he's, he's one of those directors that I feel like is like David Lynch.

Like he like transcends human existence. Like his mind is just so creative and just so out there.

And I feel like sees a plane of existence that we can't. And that's where he kind of, like, gets his ideas from.

I don't know. That might sound weird, but heremito Toro. This movie came out in 2006,

Pan's Labyrinth, and he started writing the movie and started getting ideas from the movie in

1993. So it took him 13 years to actually see his ideas be recognized, which the patience in that

alone is incredible. But I also really admire that because it's like he didn't rush to make this.

Like he knew he had something special and he really took his time with it. So he started writing

ideas for this movie in 1993, 13 years before it ever came out.

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