A few years ago, Netflix created a pop culture phenomenon that has now, as of this last season, become their most successful original show to date. Stranger Things season 3 debuted on July 4th this year and has flayed any other summer television competition. What makes this show so resonant with viewers? Why is it that the pull of 1985’s nostalgia draws even non-genre fans… especially to a show that is filled with monsters, murder, and mad scientists? Join David and Tim for a Johnny Has the Keys Special Episode discussing the lure of memory lane and this welcome the addition to the canon of genre television. Listen… as we merely brush the surface of a treasure trove of keys that all fit the magical door to Stranger Things.
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- Stephen King
- Steven Spielberg
- John Carpenter
- The Goonies (very young Sean Astin)
- Explorers
- Stand By Me
- It (original)
- Carpenter music (sound familiar?)
- McCammon’s Boy’s Life
- Wayward Pines
- Sean Astin (Bob Newby)
- Radioshack
- The Blob (1980’s remake)
- Clive Barker
- Lovecraftian monsters
- Magnum P.I.
- The Terminator
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- The Secret of My Success
- Day of the Dead
- Jaws Chief Brody
- E.T.
- It
- Red Dawn
- Roadhouse
- First Blood
- National Lampoon’s Vacation
- Working Girl
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Dr. Strangelove
- Jennifer Martin
- Gwinnett Place Mall (Starcourt stand-in)
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