Netflix‘s new original series Stranger Things is literally a gift to anyone who grew up loving sci-fi/horror in the 1980s, be it the suburban supernaturalism of Steven Spielberg (E.T., Poltergeist, Close Encounters of the Third Kind), the minimalist paranoia of John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing, Starman), or the small-town characters who populated Stephen King‘s work (“Salem’s Lot,” “Carrie,” “It”).
The story starts with a monstrous creature…
