The Duffer brothers behind StrangerThings acknowledge a sort of longing for a time when they could let their imaginations run wild. Fortunately, they have a TV show where they can do just that.
Matt and Ross Duffer spent a good chunk of their ‘90s childhood in Durham, N.C., exploring — riding their bikes, seeing where the train tracks led, playing Dungeons & Dragons. Their parents gave them a Hi8 camcorder, cutting edge at the time, and they spent their summers making little film projects . Then there were the VHS tapes, starting with pretty benign stuff before graduating to scarier fare like “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Hellraiser” and the TV miniseries version of “It.
“Stranger Things” began in 2016 as the story of three grade-school kids, Mike , Lucas and Dustin , searching for their vanished friend, Will . They stumble upon a lost girl, Eleven , who has mysterious telekinetic powers. Will’s mother, Joyce , and the police chief, Jim Hopper , join the search, which leads to that strange lab, overseen by a dour doctor , and ultimately to the Upside Down, a dark, viscous land of floating spores and predatory vines.
They grow up so fast, don’t they? The core “Stranger Things” actors are either in their 20s or getting there fast. They look like young adults because that’s what they are. Watching the show is reminiscent of coming back to a new “Harry Potter” movie after a couple of years and wondering: Who’s that?
Although the brothers didn’t grow up in the ‘80s , they got there as fast as they could, via a steady diet of the decade’s pop culture. A very partial list of “Stranger Things” influences includes “The Goonies,” “E.T.,” “Red Dawn,” Stephen King, John Hughes, Freddy Krueger, John Carpenter and “Ghostbusters.” They were mesmerized by the trailer for Tim Burton’s first “Batman” movie in 1989, and they pestered their mom until she let them see the PG-13 movie.
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