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"Stranger Things" Season 2 References and Easter Eggs

by IMDb-Editors • Created 7 years ago • Modified 7 years ago
"Stranger Things" Season 2 is packed with references to movies and TV series from the 1980s. Here's a selection that we spotted.
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Tom Cruise in Risky Business (1983)Dan Molina, Michael Rye, Vera Pacheco, and Dave Spafford in Dragon's Lair (1983)Dig Dug (1982)Arnold Schwarzenegger, Darrell Mapson, Patrick Pinney, Bill W. Richmond, and Bob Ritchie in The Terminator (1984)Kiefer Sutherland in Stand by Me (1986)Courtney Gains in Children of the Corn (1984)The Shining (1980)Drew Barrymore and Pat Welsh in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)Wyatt Oleff, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Jaeden Martell, Finn Wolfhard, and Sophia Lillis in It (2017)Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future (1985)Susan Backlinie and Bruce in Jaws (1975)Michael Keaton, Taliesin Jaffe, Miriam Flynn, Ann Jillian, and Frederick Koehler in Mr. Mom (1983)Cary Guffey in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, and Pat Welsh in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson in Ghostbusters (1984)Bill Murray in Ghostbusters (1984)The Terminator (1984)Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay in Risky Business (1983)Johnny Depp, Heather Langenkamp, Jsu Garcia, and Amanda Wyss in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)John Belushi in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)Nick Castle and Tony Moran in Halloween (1978)Boris Karloff and Marilyn Harris in Frankenstein (1931)Ted White in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)Heather O'Rourke in Poltergeist (1982)Sigourney Weaver in Alien (1979)Henry Thomas and Pat Welsh in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)Howie Mandel in Gremlins (1984)Bill Skarsgård in It (2017)Megan Follows in Anne of Green Gables (1985)Ted Danson and Shelley Long in Cheers (1982)Al Pacino in Scarface (1983)Henry Thomas in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)Richard Dawson in Family Feud (1976)Mel Gibson in The Road Warrior (1981)Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, and Ke Huy Quan in The Goonies (1985)Bridget Hoffman in The Evil Dead (1981)Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)Brooke Adams in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)Harrison Ford and Kate Capshaw in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)Stuart Hughes in It (2017)The Endless Summer (1966)Mark Hamill and Frank Oz in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)Soleil Moon Frye and Sandy in Punky Brewster (1984)Winona Ryder in Stranger Things (2016)Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, and Jason Miller in The Exorcist (1973)Sophie Turner in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

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