8 ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 Callbacks to Beloved ’80s Movies You Might Have Missed

Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 1 is here, and with it comes a fresh wave of shocks, nostalgia, and long-awaited answers that push the story toward its final chapter. It also brings a huge heaping amount of pop-culture movie references to let fans know that Ross and Matt Duffer are still tipping their hats to the films that inspired the series from the very beginning.

According to Matt Duffer, “The movies I think that are worth watching in preparation would be — and this is going to sound all over the place — Children of Men, The Great Escape, The Lost Boys, Home Alone, The Cell with Jennifer Lopez, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Back to the Future always, The Terminator for Linda (Hamilton). Those are the big ones.”