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Steve and Robin still work at Family Video, a popular video rental store which only just closed its doors (and its online store) for good in March of this year. The cover appears to be from the Maissue picturing Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos and including a reference to the space shuttle Challenger disaster just three months earlier: “NASA’s Fatal Mistake.” The article in question, however, was probably adapted from a September ’85 Newsweek piece entitled, “Kids: The Deadliest Game” about the perils of D&D. Eddie reads to The Hellfire Club an article from Newsweek regarding the dangers of teens becoming obsessed with Dungeons & Dragons.But the X-Men’s Hellfire Club were a key factor in Jean Grey’s Dark Phoenix story, and considering how often Stranger Things has flirted with those elements in Eleven’s story, they’re probably having some fun with us, too.

Both the comics and historical Hellfire Club involved the elites of society, so Eddie has a fun sense of humor naming his club of outcasts that, even as it plays on the “satanic panic” around D&D. The Hellfire Club is a name with plenty of historical significance, but in the context of Stranger Things, it probably means more as an X-Men comics reference.The freaks always have the best taste in music. Former Black Sabbath and Rainbow singer Ronny James Dio’s solo albums had some truly legendary Dungeons & Dragons type album covers, so it figures that Eddie is a big fan. Eddie’s jacket is repping bands like Motorhead, WASP, and with a truly awesome Dio backpatch.Yes, that’s common knowledge in the soundtrack list, but people should be listening to The Cramps all the time (but especially around Halloween) so we figured we’d shout it out here. We hear their version of “Fever” a few minutes later, too. When we first meet Eddie Munson (think the name’s similarity to Eddie Munster is a coincidence?), we hear “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” by The Cramps playing.movie, itself a response to how Sam Raimi put a torn poster for Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes in the background of the workshed in Evil Dead!

#Island time 3 minutes to midnight cd movie

The first Evil Dead movie is playing on a TV in the first Nightmare on Elm St. It also plays into the Nightmare on Elm Street vibes of this season. Released in 1981, this Sam Raimi-directed cult horror classic would lead to Evil Dead II in 1987, Army of Darknessin 1992, and a lifetime of Bruce Campbell cameos in Raimi superhero movies. The Evil DeadĪ poster for The Evil Deadadorns Jonathan’s room. Alan TuringĪlthough we only see El’s hero diorama being presented in class, Will is seen carrying into school a poster board emblazoned with the name Alan Turing, the British scientist who despite his heroics in World War II was prosecuted for his homosexuality and chemically castrated. Of course, then everything goes off the rails. Brenner gives Ten to test his precog abilities feels a little bit like the (rigged) flash card test that Peter Venkman gives a hapless college student at the start of Ghostbusters. This toy was widely available in the ’70s and would experience a resurgence in popularity in the ’80s, although not until a year after the events of this season when Tyco Toys purchased the rights in 1987. What does it all mean? Uhhh…you tell us? Magic 8-BallĮlsewhere in the flashback to 1979, the young test subject known as Ten uses a Magic 8 Ball to answer an inquiry from Dr. All seem to be about “clever thoughts,” “fantastic” ideas, and “ingenious plans.” Interestingly, “idea” is also one of the crossword puzzle answers. The first two are advising keeping one’s ideas to oneself, while the other two are advising seeking input from others. Brenner reading in 1979, we can see four horoscopes, two of which contradict the other two. A scrappy player shakes up D&D night.” The Newspaper Stranger Things Season 4 Episode 1: “The Hellfire Club”