Stranger Things: Tales From ’85

Matt Roush says...

Surely you didn’t think Netflix would let its hit horror franchise go away so easily. A colorfully animated juvenile spinoff rewinds the clock a bit to the winter of 1985. The characters are mostly the same (though featuring a new voice cast), with the gate to the Upside Down temporarily closed and the Starcourt Mall yet to open. But there’s no such thing as downtime for Eleven and her friends, when the Indiana town of Hawkins is besieged by a fresh set of monsters lurking under the snow and in the trees, erupting like a mutant version of a fairy-tale beanstalk. “Well, this is a horror movie waiting to happen,” says their new acquaintance, punk rebel Nikki (Marty Supreme‘s Odessa A’Zion), and of course she’s right.

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