Part horror, part nostalgia, part love letter to every 80s film you grew up with. How much of Hawkins do you actually remember?
Stranger Things works because it hits two things at once: genuine dread and pure nostalgia. The Duffer Brothers hid E.T., Stand By Me and Stephen King references everywhere. This quiz finds out if you noticed.
Stranger Things is not just a monster show. It is a careful recreation of a specific feeling: being twelve years old, watching something you probably should not have been allowed to watch, on a Friday night in 1983. The show is packed with references to E.T., Stand By Me, The Thing and nearly every Spielberg and Stephen King moment that defined a generation.
This quiz goes beyond the main plot. It tests the details: the names, the dates, the music that saved Max's life, the laboratory you were never supposed to know about. If you were paying attention to the world around the story, this is your quiz.