By Sean T. Collins.
Fortunately, we live in an age where a multitude of options are available for scratching that Stranger Things itch, all from a variety of popular streaming services. The representation of Silent Hill, the town which, after the sounding of the sirens, is being transformed into an infernal place you don’t want to be anywhere around (fairly resembling Stranger Things’ Demogorgon lair), is pure visual design done right. The scenes inside the place where the alien leads its victims are amongst the most terrifying ever and an unmistakable influence on the alternate reality Stranger Things’ El enters, when put inside the psychic water tank. Continue at your own risk.).
We did some top-level political brainstorming. In his 1970s stylized and intriguingly premised shocker, a suburban family who faces financial hardships are visited by a mysterious scar-faced man, who offers them a box and a numbing dilemma: should they press the button inside it, they will receive one million dollars, but somebody in the world whom they don’t know will die.
Beyond that, though, it’s a story of an everyday parent awed by evidence of other worlds, and like Stranger Things, it uses children menaced and abducted by these forces as emotional linchpins.
An ’80s throwback long before it became one of Hollywood’s favorite aesthetics to mine, DD sees something uncanny in the blue skies, green lawns, and stonewashed jeans of its setting and era — something strange enough to rewrite the rules of reality itself. But from its superpowered young female lead (Drew Barrymore) to her origin in shadowy government experiments, Firestarter has a whole lot in common with Stranger Things.
During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash while shooting a super 8 movie. Below, you’ll find 30 movies that exist in Stranger Things’ twilight zone, spiraling outward from its most obvious and direct inspirations and influences to neglected and forgotten flicks that deliver on the Duffer bros’ promise. (He’s a way less wacky guy in the original than he becomes in subsequent installments, for what it’s worth.)
Including a few spooky picks for October. If Nancy were Stranger Things’ psychic superweapon rather than Eleven, you might have wound up with something close to Carrie. The film stars Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman in his final film role. Sound familiar? In defiance of the family in question's economic difficulties, the wife is not willing to give up their big house. While its teen characters are a more mature demographic than Stranger Things’, Winona Ryder’s Joyce Byers and Natalia Dyer’s Nancy Wheeler feel like they could be the older and younger sisters of star Jamie Lee Curtis’s “final girl.”.
We’ve done the hard work for you and assembled a list of 13 titles that will (hopefully) satisfy that post-Stranger Things craving. Oscar Isaac to Play Bearded ’70s Francis Ford Coppola Alongside Jake Gyllenhaal, Armie Hammer Debuts Divorce Mustache in British GQ. Hoo boy, Craven and company stumbled across a deep, fetid swamp of teenage terrors. Even with its darkness, the film aptly comments upon the human condition and the everlasting search for connection and love, evidently vital to all life. Under the Skin is a dark, dark film, a tense travelogue of a confused being destined to prey upon human souls, ideally incarnated by Johansson in probably her best performance to date. The best Netflix original series that you can stream right now, The best horror movies on Netflix right now, The best family movies on Netflix right now, How to use Netflix’s secret category codes to find what you want to watch, The best free PlayStation 4 games available today, The Witcher season 2: Everything we know about the Netflix series’ next adventure, The 20 best new movies to stream on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and HBO, Wonder Woman 1984: Everything we know about the movie so far, What is YouTube TV? With a body-horror subtext worthy of Cronenberg and a ridiculously impressive voice cast (Mia Farrow, Jeff Bridges, Christopher Lee, Angela Lansbury, and Alan Arkin), it’s like a cross between Stranger Things and a story from the Dungeons & Dragons game its characters play. is its John’s Gospel: It may be less directly influential than other films in terms of the show’s surface-level horror-film aesthetic, but it has the heart and soul that moved people more than its more straightforwardly spooky analogues — and which ST is clearly attempting to evoke. So that’s it: You’ve finished the second season of Stranger Things and now find yourself struggling to fill the massive void in your life that was formerly occupied by the events transpiring in and around (and under) Hawkins, Indiana. Yes.
This year’s blockbuster theatrical adaptation changes the time frame to the 1980s, hitting the same nostalgic sweet spot as Stranger Things.
Above all, it’s a suburban fantasy film and one that perfectly captures symbols of suburbia with the idiosyncrasy of his troubled, but brilliant main character, Donnie, and his visions of a giant rabbit and the apocalypse. Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo from his comic-book series of the same name, Akira was one of the most successful and influential anime films of the decade; in America, it was, for many years, almost the only game in town. Stranger Things started streaming this month on Netflix, to a wave of overwhelming feedback both by critics and viewers, which quickly drove to the announcement of several more seasons. *Sorry, there was a problem signing you up. Adapted by William Peter Blatty from his novel of the same name, it’s one of a handful of films — also including Peeping Tom, Psycho, Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jaws, Halloween, and Alien — that establish the grammar of contemporary horror filmmaking. With a vibrant cast from across the entertainment spectrum — Kiefer Sutherland! From the “Vertigo Shot” closeup on Brody during an unexpected shark attack to the “we’re gonna need a bigger boat” jump-scare to Robert Shaw’s legendary USS Indianapolis monologue (“Anyway, we delivered the bomb”), this movie contains moments of the rawest, purest genre-film power. We're counting down the movies from the past forty years that best capture Stranger Things' suburban fantasy spirit.
Tickets available here. One the most iconic sci-fi movies of all time, this straight dose of spellbinding Spielberg brilliance features the blueprint for the Stranger Things playbook: A group of kids thrown into an adventure with a strange creature and pursued by sinister government agencies. Written and directed by “splatterpunk” auteur Clive Barker (adapting his own novella, The Hellbound Heart), this BDSM-influenced landmark pushed horror’s evolution toward the extreme by introducing Pinhead, one of the all-time-great monster designs, to an unsuspecting world. Am I comfortable saying this is the best movie on this list? JJ Abrams does not care to hide his influences, nor his idolizations. Dianne Wiest! Cult media sucker. The granddaddy of sci-fi and supernatural storytelling on television, this anthology series launched in 1959 with host Rod Serling was many Americans’ introduction to the classic stories and tropes of the sci-fi genre that would go on to inspire generations of storytellers in various media. Movies like Bird Box and single episodes of shows like Stranger Things are free to watch now on the Netflix website. A fascinating slice of sci-fi psychedelia, this singular collaboration between writer Paddy Chayefsky (Network) and director Ken Russell (The Who’s Tommy) did not end well for the two artists. Read on, log in, and stream away … if you dare…. One of the all-time great populist collaborations, this teen-adventure classic was written by Chris Columbus (Gremlins, Home Alone, Harry Potter) and directed by Richard Donner (The Omen, Superman, Lethal Weapon) from a story by Spielberg himself. I didn't even understand what that meant. The second Richard Kelly entry in the list, The Box is an adaptation of Richard Matheson’s short story Button, Button and another indicator of the director’s love for sci-fi/horror literature.
Fortunately, we live in an age where a multitude of options are available for scratching that Stranger Things itch, all from a variety of popular streaming services. The representation of Silent Hill, the town which, after the sounding of the sirens, is being transformed into an infernal place you don’t want to be anywhere around (fairly resembling Stranger Things’ Demogorgon lair), is pure visual design done right. The scenes inside the place where the alien leads its victims are amongst the most terrifying ever and an unmistakable influence on the alternate reality Stranger Things’ El enters, when put inside the psychic water tank. Continue at your own risk.).
We did some top-level political brainstorming. In his 1970s stylized and intriguingly premised shocker, a suburban family who faces financial hardships are visited by a mysterious scar-faced man, who offers them a box and a numbing dilemma: should they press the button inside it, they will receive one million dollars, but somebody in the world whom they don’t know will die.
Beyond that, though, it’s a story of an everyday parent awed by evidence of other worlds, and like Stranger Things, it uses children menaced and abducted by these forces as emotional linchpins.
An ’80s throwback long before it became one of Hollywood’s favorite aesthetics to mine, DD sees something uncanny in the blue skies, green lawns, and stonewashed jeans of its setting and era — something strange enough to rewrite the rules of reality itself. But from its superpowered young female lead (Drew Barrymore) to her origin in shadowy government experiments, Firestarter has a whole lot in common with Stranger Things.
During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash while shooting a super 8 movie. Below, you’ll find 30 movies that exist in Stranger Things’ twilight zone, spiraling outward from its most obvious and direct inspirations and influences to neglected and forgotten flicks that deliver on the Duffer bros’ promise. (He’s a way less wacky guy in the original than he becomes in subsequent installments, for what it’s worth.)
Including a few spooky picks for October. If Nancy were Stranger Things’ psychic superweapon rather than Eleven, you might have wound up with something close to Carrie. The film stars Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman in his final film role. Sound familiar? In defiance of the family in question's economic difficulties, the wife is not willing to give up their big house. While its teen characters are a more mature demographic than Stranger Things’, Winona Ryder’s Joyce Byers and Natalia Dyer’s Nancy Wheeler feel like they could be the older and younger sisters of star Jamie Lee Curtis’s “final girl.”.
We’ve done the hard work for you and assembled a list of 13 titles that will (hopefully) satisfy that post-Stranger Things craving. Oscar Isaac to Play Bearded ’70s Francis Ford Coppola Alongside Jake Gyllenhaal, Armie Hammer Debuts Divorce Mustache in British GQ. Hoo boy, Craven and company stumbled across a deep, fetid swamp of teenage terrors. Even with its darkness, the film aptly comments upon the human condition and the everlasting search for connection and love, evidently vital to all life. Under the Skin is a dark, dark film, a tense travelogue of a confused being destined to prey upon human souls, ideally incarnated by Johansson in probably her best performance to date. The best Netflix original series that you can stream right now, The best horror movies on Netflix right now, The best family movies on Netflix right now, How to use Netflix’s secret category codes to find what you want to watch, The best free PlayStation 4 games available today, The Witcher season 2: Everything we know about the Netflix series’ next adventure, The 20 best new movies to stream on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and HBO, Wonder Woman 1984: Everything we know about the movie so far, What is YouTube TV? With a body-horror subtext worthy of Cronenberg and a ridiculously impressive voice cast (Mia Farrow, Jeff Bridges, Christopher Lee, Angela Lansbury, and Alan Arkin), it’s like a cross between Stranger Things and a story from the Dungeons & Dragons game its characters play. is its John’s Gospel: It may be less directly influential than other films in terms of the show’s surface-level horror-film aesthetic, but it has the heart and soul that moved people more than its more straightforwardly spooky analogues — and which ST is clearly attempting to evoke. So that’s it: You’ve finished the second season of Stranger Things and now find yourself struggling to fill the massive void in your life that was formerly occupied by the events transpiring in and around (and under) Hawkins, Indiana. Yes.
This year’s blockbuster theatrical adaptation changes the time frame to the 1980s, hitting the same nostalgic sweet spot as Stranger Things.
Above all, it’s a suburban fantasy film and one that perfectly captures symbols of suburbia with the idiosyncrasy of his troubled, but brilliant main character, Donnie, and his visions of a giant rabbit and the apocalypse. Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo from his comic-book series of the same name, Akira was one of the most successful and influential anime films of the decade; in America, it was, for many years, almost the only game in town. Stranger Things started streaming this month on Netflix, to a wave of overwhelming feedback both by critics and viewers, which quickly drove to the announcement of several more seasons. *Sorry, there was a problem signing you up. Adapted by William Peter Blatty from his novel of the same name, it’s one of a handful of films — also including Peeping Tom, Psycho, Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jaws, Halloween, and Alien — that establish the grammar of contemporary horror filmmaking. With a vibrant cast from across the entertainment spectrum — Kiefer Sutherland! From the “Vertigo Shot” closeup on Brody during an unexpected shark attack to the “we’re gonna need a bigger boat” jump-scare to Robert Shaw’s legendary USS Indianapolis monologue (“Anyway, we delivered the bomb”), this movie contains moments of the rawest, purest genre-film power. We're counting down the movies from the past forty years that best capture Stranger Things' suburban fantasy spirit.
Tickets available here. One the most iconic sci-fi movies of all time, this straight dose of spellbinding Spielberg brilliance features the blueprint for the Stranger Things playbook: A group of kids thrown into an adventure with a strange creature and pursued by sinister government agencies. Written and directed by “splatterpunk” auteur Clive Barker (adapting his own novella, The Hellbound Heart), this BDSM-influenced landmark pushed horror’s evolution toward the extreme by introducing Pinhead, one of the all-time-great monster designs, to an unsuspecting world. Am I comfortable saying this is the best movie on this list? JJ Abrams does not care to hide his influences, nor his idolizations. Dianne Wiest! Cult media sucker. The granddaddy of sci-fi and supernatural storytelling on television, this anthology series launched in 1959 with host Rod Serling was many Americans’ introduction to the classic stories and tropes of the sci-fi genre that would go on to inspire generations of storytellers in various media. Movies like Bird Box and single episodes of shows like Stranger Things are free to watch now on the Netflix website. A fascinating slice of sci-fi psychedelia, this singular collaboration between writer Paddy Chayefsky (Network) and director Ken Russell (The Who’s Tommy) did not end well for the two artists. Read on, log in, and stream away … if you dare…. One of the all-time great populist collaborations, this teen-adventure classic was written by Chris Columbus (Gremlins, Home Alone, Harry Potter) and directed by Richard Donner (The Omen, Superman, Lethal Weapon) from a story by Spielberg himself. I didn't even understand what that meant. The second Richard Kelly entry in the list, The Box is an adaptation of Richard Matheson’s short story Button, Button and another indicator of the director’s love for sci-fi/horror literature.