SlashBack Cinema

About SlashBack Cinema

Technically a horror podcast. Actually, a time machine. Remember the video store horror section? The sleepover dares? The practical effects that grossed us out? SlashBack Cinema is two Gen X dads going back — humor, nostalgia, trivia, and the scenes, memories, and VHS-era oddities that made them unforgettable

Publisher

Ryan Dreimiller and Shanny Luft

Category

tv & film · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

29 Oct 2024

Latest episode

10 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

60 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Jul 2026

   Evil Dead 2 horror...or comedy?

   Ryan calls it the greatest horror comedy ever made. Shanny says it's basically a live-action Looney Tunes cartoon filmed with terrifying commitment. Somewhere between the possessed hand, Henrietta's basement hijinks, gallons of mulit color blood, and Bruce Campbell absorbing more physical punishment than any actor should, they try to answer the question. Episode Highlights: Why horror fans are still split on Evil Dead 2 The Warner Bros. cartoon theory Freddy Kruege...

2. 

   25 May 2026

   Lifeforce (1985) | Space Vampires & Peak 80s Sci-Fi Horror

   If you've ever been in a toxic relationship with a space vampire, this is the episode for you. This week on SlashBack Cinema, Ryan and Shanny tackle Lifeforce (1985), Tobe Hooper's gloriously unhinged sci-fi horror epic that somehow combines space vampires, psychic powers, zombie outbreaks, alien bats, Patrick Stewart, and the end of the world into one movie. What starts as a mysterious mission to Halley's Comet quickly spirals into apocalyptic chaos as an otherworldly energy vampire arrives ...

3. 

   3 May 2026

   The Wicker Man (1973) | Is This the Citizen Kane of Horror?

   If you need to get away from it all… Summerisle is waiting. This week on SlashBack Cinema, we head back to 1973 to break down The Wicker Man a folk horror classic that trades jump scares for slow-building dread… and delivers one of the most unforgettable endings in horror history. What starts as a simple missing person case quickly turns into something far more unsettling, as a devout Christian police officer finds himself trapped in a world of pagan rituals, strange traditions, and a communi...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

14 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

86

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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