SlashBack Cinema
by Ryan Dreimiller and Shanny Luft
TV & FilmE · Explicit
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About this podcast
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
Episodes
The newest 20 of 61 episodes
- Spookies (1986): Emergency Protocol... Is This the Worst Movie We’ve Ever Seen? · 19 min · Season 2 Episode 61Happy Halloween folks!! This week we watched Spookies 1986... There’s bad. There’s so-bad-it’s-good. And then there’s Spookies. We tried to review it normally. That lasted about…
- Lair of the White Worm (1988): Fangs, Bagpipes & Pure Ken Russell Insanity · 19 min · Season 2 Episode 60Giant snake gods. Four-inch fangs. Psychedelic religious hallucinations. A strategically deployed mongoose. Hugh Grant with a six-foot sword. And Peter Capaldi somehow producing…
- Phantasm II (1988): Bigger Guns, Golden Balls & Chainsaw Mayhem · 30 min · Season 2 Episode 59Nine years after Phantasm introduced us to the Tall Man, killer silver spheres and an army of hooded alien dwarves, Don Coscarelli came back with a bigger budget and apparently…
- Evil Dead 2 horror...or comedy? · 21 min · Season 2 Episode 58Ryan 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…
- Lifeforce (1985) | Space Vampires & Peak 80s Sci-Fi Horror · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 57If 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…
- The Wicker Man (1973) | Is This the Citizen Kane of Horror? · 22 min · Season 2 Episode 56If 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…
- They Live (1988) OBEY. CONSUME. PUT ON THE GLASSES. · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 55“We’re here to chew bubblegum and podcast… and we’re all out of bubblegum.” This week on SlashBack Cinema, we finally put on the sunglasses and take a hard look at They Live the…
- The Stuff (1985) You Ate It. It Ate You Back. · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 54Everyone's eating it. Nobody knows what it is. Nobody cares. This week on SlashBack Cinema, we're grabbing a spoon and digging into The Stuff (1985), the cult horror where a…
- Poltergeist (1982): Suburban Hell, Real Skeletons, and Peak Gen X Trauma · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 53This week on SlashBack Cinema, we channel Poltergeist...the suburban nightmare that made every flickering TV feel like a portal to hell. We dig into the behind-the-scenes madness…
- Piranha (1978): This Movie Bites! Killer Fish and Summer Camp Chaos + Retro Trivia · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 52This week on SlashBack Cinema, we head into the water with Joe Dante’s Piranha (1978) the scrappy Jaws-inspired cult classic where genetically engineered killer fish turn a quiet…
- C.H.U.D. (1984) The 80s Sewer-Dweller Toxic Waste Cult Classic · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 51This week on SlashBack Cinema, we head into the New York City sewers to revisit C.H.U.D. (1984)—aka Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers. We break down government…
- My Bloody Valentine (1981): The Slasher That Ruined Valentine’s Day · 33 min · Season 2 Episode 50In this episode of SlashBack Cinema, we revisit My Bloody Valentine (1981)—the Canadian slasher that proved Valentine’s Day is a terrible time to throw a party. Set in the mining…
- House (1985) Haunted House Chaos, Interdimensional Closet Demons & The Greatest American Hero · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 49The Greatest American Hero, a haunted house, Vietnam flashbacks, and some of the strangest creature effects of the 80s collide in House (1985). We revisit this horror-comedy cult…
- Flatliners (1990): Because Med School Wasn’t Scary Enough + Retro Trivia · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 48This week on SlashBack Cinema, we flatline with Flatliners—the glossy 90s thriller where med students stop their own hearts to see what comes next… and don’t love what follows…
- Silent Night Deadly Night (1984) Santa trauma & One Naughty Kill Count · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 47This week on SlashBack Cinema, we ask the question: Ho ho ho? Or no no no? we unwrap Silent Night, Deadly Night, the controversial 1984 Christmas slasher that turned mall Santas…
- Christmas Evil (1980) – Yuletide Horror & Cult Legacy · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 46What happens when you really commit to being Santa? This week on SlashBack Cinema, we unwrap Christmas Evil (1980) a grimy, slow-burn (or is it no-burn??) holiday horror film…
- Night of the Creeps (1986) Why This Cult Sci-Fi Horror Still Rules · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 45Alien slugs, zombie frat boys, and Tom Atkins dropping scorched-earth one-liners. This week Shanny and Ryan pop in the cult classic Night of the Creeps. Don't forget to bring…
- Hack-O-Lantern (1988) When a Pumpkin-Obsessed Grandpa Runs a Satanic Cult · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 44Get ready for Hack-O-Lantern (1988) A schlocky, satanic, headbanging mess packed with awkward family moments, cheap cult rituals, and enough bad acting to fill a pumpkin patch…
- Uninvited (1987) So bad, it's good...A surprising horror comedy · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 43Hey Slashers - you're officially invited to join SlashBack Cinema as we dig into 1987’s shlock-tastic horror oddity Uninvited! Not to be confused with Uninvited (2024), The…
- Happy Birthday to Me! (1981) Private Schools, Shish Kebab Skewers, and Peak Slasher Logic · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 42Sharpen those skewers--it's time to celebrate with one of the most infamous slashers of the early '80s! In this episode, we slice into Happy Birthday to Me (1981), the Canadian…
