Stranger Things wears its influences on its 1980s sleeves. From the Duffer Brothers’ love of Spielberg movies via Stephen King, to classic ’80s sci-fi and horror, the Netflix show is brat-packed full of warm and fuzzy moments of 1980s nostalgia, (s)lashings of sci-fi horror tropes and a ton of teen friendship drama. We’ve picked, of course, Eleven movies to watch if you count yourself as a ‘Stranger’.
THE THING (1982)
John Carpenter’s Kurt Russell-starring, with Season 4 taking a lot of influence from the movie. We know the Duffers are fans and were first influenced to use old-school practical FX such as animatronics for their own creature-feature by Rob Bottin’s work in bringing shape-shifting horror to life.
