5 • 828 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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In this week's episode, Sidney does a full breakdown of the 2014 masterpiece As Above So Below and discusses the parallels to Dante's Inferno and how it inspired the storyline and the characters journey through hell.
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0:00.0 | Hello? |
0:02.0 | Hello, Sydney. |
0:06.0 | Hello, my spooky people, and welcome back to yet another episode of the Hello Sydney podcast, |
0:38.1 | a podcast for horror lovers where we discuss any and all things horror. It's me, your girl, Sydney. |
0:43.2 | This is episode like six, I think. I feel like we are just flying through, but I also feel like |
0:48.6 | I have just been doing this forever. I already told you guys, I got a new laptop, and I also got a new |
0:53.2 | mic this week, So we are like |
0:54.8 | a real podcaster now. So again, for those of you who have been listening and are still listening, |
1:00.2 | thank you for your never-ending support. I love you guys so much. Speaking of loving things, today we |
1:04.9 | are going to be talking about one of the horror movies that I love the most in this world. It is one of |
1:09.9 | my favorite found footage movies of all time, |
1:12.2 | and I'm talking about none other than as above so below from 2014. This is one of those movies |
1:18.4 | that just has dumb, low critic scores. And you guys probably hear me say this shit all the time |
1:23.9 | if you follow me on TikTok, but like I personally am not a fan of that elevated |
1:27.6 | horror. So like specifically hereditary midsummer, the witch like 824 shit basically. And I can't |
1:33.7 | stand. It is one of my biggest horror pet peeves when people say, oh, you just didn't understand it. |
1:38.7 | When I tell them I didn't like it. Like no, I fucking understand it. I just still don't fucking like it. But when I talk about as above so below, |
1:45.4 | I don't think it's that you need to understand it to like it. But I think understanding the |
1:49.9 | deeper message behind it just gives you a newfound appreciation for it. And I think if the critics |
1:54.6 | understood that, the scores would not be so low for this one. And the reason I say that is because |
1:59.6 | this movie is so smart and so well |
2:01.9 | written because it is a really creative retelling and interpretation of Dante's Inferno. |
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