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- Yes, you can point, if you want to, to the many iconic film monsters that Stranger Things ’ monster stands in for. (It sounds like the Predator, for instance, and it makes the walls bulge like the evil spirits in Poltergeist.)
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Stranger Things does manage to showcase some direct homages to one of the greatest sequels of all time. Homages. Characters in Stranger Things mention a "Lando" analogy while referencing another character. A Millennium Falcon toy is featured; A Yoda action figure is featured; Mention of Eleven's "Jedi-like" powers; Altered States (1980)
Jun 1, 2022 · Stranger Things made its name on ’80s pop-culture references and homages to the ’80s movies, TV shows, and books that inspired it, and its fourth season proudly continues that tradition.
Jul 20, 2016 · Not every reference in Stranger Things resorts to full-blown homage however: lots of other 80s properties are referenced with more of a passing nod than a frame-by-frame re-enactment.
- 'A Nightmare On Elm Street' (1984) Perhaps the most obvious eighties movie reference in Season 4 is Wes Craven's A Nightmare On Elm Street. Big Bad Vecna/Henry/One's (Jamie Campbell Bower) MO is strikingly similar to Freddy Krueger's.
- 'Hellraiser' (1987) In Clive Barker's Hellraiser, a mystical puzzle box opens a gate into an alternate dimension populated by the Cenobites — a race of sadomasochistic beings unable to differentiate between pleasure and pain.
- 'Halloween' (1978) Starting with John Carpenter's first installment in 1978, twelve films make up the Halloween franchise, but it's a scene from the first film that gets the Stranger Things treatment.
- 'Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back' (1980) What's an homage to eighties cinema without Star Wars? When Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) plays Dungeons and Dragons with the Hellfire Club, the group huddles to vote on a risky move.
Jul 25, 2019 · Stranger Things is, if anything, a montage of the best sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and 1980s action films. There are kids with special powers, trippy underworlds and monsters, and government...
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Aug 31, 2016 · Though Ridley Scott's film "Alien" technically came out in 1979, I would still count it as a huge piece of '80s pop culture. The obvious reference to it in "Stranger Things" comes from the...
Jul 21, 2016 · Matt and Ross Duffer’s new Netflix series Stranger Things is full of nostalgic nods to the decade and its pop-cultural products, but it’s also uncommonly rigorous about getting the details just...
