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All the cult movies' references inside Stranger Things Season 2

From 'The Exorcist' to 'Mad Max'

All the cult movies' references inside Stranger Things Season 2 From 'The Exorcist' to 'Mad Max'

You can’t survive to the ‘80s.

Stranger Things has consecrated them as the ultimate truth.

The series created by Duffer brothers is a blend of the best of that decade, of all the movies, books and video games, Anne of Green Gables to Dig Dug.

Just this nostalgic effect coupled with a fluid, enthralling plot and the protagonists able to conquer the audience is the secret of the planetary success of Eleven & co..

On Friday, October 29, Netflix broadcast the second season, nine new episodes that promise to reveal what happen to Will or to the Upsidedown  monsters, but try to introduce new dynamics and characters like Joyce’s boyfriend starring Sean Astin aka Mikey of The Goonies, sublimating the homage to Richard Donner film.

Among explicit quotes, such as Dustin, Mike and others masked by Ghostbusters for Halloween, and cryptic allusions like when D’Art eats Dustin’s cat recalling the alien Alf.

The game between the real fans of Stranger Things, also for the new season, is always the same: who can identify more tributes to the 80s?

nss tried too.

What do you think about? We did good?

 

Ghostbusters (1984)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

St Elmo’s street (1985)

Pretty in Pink (1986)

Risky Business (1983)

Nightmare on Elm street (1984)

Aliens (1986)

Stand by me (1986)

The Goonies (1985)

The Evil Dead (1981)

Firestarter (1984)

Poltergeist (1982)

The Terminator (1984)

Halloween (1978)

Children of the Corn (1984)

Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

The Warriors (1979)

Mad Max (1979)

The Exorcist (1973)

Jaws (1975)