Just going to say this once, because I need to get it out of my system.
Stranger Things Season 3 in an elevator pitch?
Imagine film director John Hughes shares a joint with
Stephen King. They scheme up a kids’ small-town horror backdrop fetishizing
mid-1980’s nostalgia.
King immediately suggests a tortured young antagonist who is a borderline sociopath, albeit an impressionable, self-involved sociopath who drives a Camaro and likes him some hard rock music - an archetype plucked from King's horror work from the eighties.
Hughes posits many scenes involving the young teenage protagonists in mercilessly awkward, and often humorous, plot points, augment by a relentless (and often enjoyable) soundtrack of 1980's pop music.
King and Hughes concur - the story will be resplendent with tributes including (but not limited
to) Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1980’s action films, The Goonies, the 1950’s The
Blob (1958, with Steve McQueen), the lesser-known The Stuff (1985), John Carpenter’s
The Thing (1982), The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (any from the series), and
Red Dawn (1984).
There. Now that feels better.
But watch it and decide for yourself, of course, true believers.
