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Friday, November 7th, 2025

Live Poll: Movies That Inspired Stranger Things

<p>https://www.imdb.com/poll/L4bufynWefhSh4SHk31ONQ/</p>

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6 days ago

Rewrite:

From which of these movies does [link=tt4574334] take the most inspiration?

Also add quotation marks to the title:

Movies That Inspired "Stranger Things"

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done.

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5 days ago

Did you use a source to find these movies?

I think the question could be hard to answer (maybe not everyone knows which scenes were inspired by which movie).

Many more can be found here:

https://strangerthings.fandom.com/wiki/Influences_%26_references

I would definitely include:

Jaws

Indiana Jones trilogy (1981 - 1989)

Star Wars original trilogy

WarGames

Akira

Mad Max

Jurassic Park

Ghostbusters

The Shining

Halloween

Hellraiser

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At first no,  because the similarities with some 80s movies are pretty obvious, but then I did a little digging. It is hilarious that in 'A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors' there is a kid named Will who frightens Freddy Krueger and then he gains confidence and becomes something like a magician and fight the villain just like Will from ST

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