![]() ![]() Running through Stranger Things is the DNA of Stand By Me, one of the most iconic coming-of-age stories in cinema history. But could Stranger Things be such an effective period piece of sorts without the blueprints set out by the classic genre films of the decade? Visionary directors like John Carpenter, Stephen Spielberg and Joe Dante captured the imaginations, the heart and sometimes even the gag reflexes of American moviegoers and left a mark on cinema that persists in the horror and sci-fi genres as we know them today. The show owes so much to the 80s - here are the 15 80s Movies That Inspired Netflix's Stranger Things. Plunging viewers more than thirty years into the past is no easy feat, yet Stranger Things is able to pull it off with set pieces, plot details and a soundtrack that act as a time machine. Rounding out the cast is Winona Ryder as Will's distraught mother Joyce and David Harbour as dogged police chief Jim Hopper. ![]() Not long after his disappearance, Will's buddies Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) encounter a strange girl with a shaved head in the woods dubbed Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) who might hold the key to finding Will. After an unknown creature overpowers a scientist and escapes from the government-run Hawkins National Laboratory, young Will (Noah Schnapps) seemingly vanishes on a bike ride back home after spending the evening with his friends. Although it's 2016, anyone who has become immersed in Netflix's new sci-fi thriller, Stranger Things, released July 15, could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. Set in the 1980s and slavishly devoted to recreating everything about the feel of the decade, the events of Stranger Things unfold in a sleepy Indiana town that seems normal at first glance. ![]()
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