Welcome to SlashBack Cinema – a retro horror podcast where Shanny Luft and Ryan Dreimiller revisit the spine-tingling classics of 70s and 80s horror. The idea for the show was born after Ryan was laid off from his longtime corporate job and found himself in need of a creative reset. He hit the road on a cross-country trip and reconnected with Shanny in Wisconsin. Amid late-night conversations and shared memories, one idea kept rising from the grave: What if we finally made that podcast we always talked about? SlashBack Cinema became a creative lifeline—a way to revisit the movies that raised us, reconnect through the genre we love. Part nostalgic deep-dive, part comedy, and part cinematic therapy session, the show is a love letter to classic and campy horror—and a celebration of second acts for midlife Gen Xers. It’s proof that career detours can lead to creative roads less traveled… even if they’re paved in fake blood and fog machines.