This is the second direct callback to the classic slasher franchise this season. When fugitive Eddie is running around the trailer park, he wears a Michael Myers mask from the original two Halloween movies. A movie that Winona Ryder also starred in.
Not exactly an ’80s reference, but the Russian lab full of confined Demodogs and other creatures from the Upside Down is very reminiscent of a similar scene in 1997’s Alien: Resurrection.
The most famous of these was Mysteries of the Unknown, which ran ads on daytime TV nonstop in the ‘80s. Joyce is selling Encylopedia Brittanica’s by phone, and she makes a snarky remark about another popular 80s “order by phone” series. Speaking of John Hughes movies, when Eddie Munson points out the school caste system in a rant in the cafeteria, he pretty much boils it down to the character breakdowns from The Breakfast Club – the jocks, the freaks, the nerds, the popular kids, and the criminals. We guess this was the Broderick specialty in the ’80s. And also his changing his absences in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (which came out in 1986, when Stranger Things 4 takes place). This is a reference to Matthew Broderick changing his grades in War Games. Suzie, Hacker genius and Dustin’s girlfriend, hacks into the Hawkins High School school computer and changes her “Dustybun’s” grades. And they make the first of two references on this show to Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and Phoebe Cates’ infamously “paused on VHS” topless scene in the movie. While carpooling to work, Robin and Steve are listening to “ Object of My Desire” by Starpoint. We can just hear him reciting his “ what is best in life” speech just looking at it. When we first see Mike Wheeler back home in Hawkins towards the start of Chapter One, he’s got a Conan the Barbarian movie poster hanging on his wall, showing Arnold in all his musclebound glory.
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