pretty overrated

Yeah same... I only see trailers when I'm stuck in a theater. October is a long time... but just watch a few other shows and it will be here before you know it.

I think people up it so much because of how well it captures the 80s. It's a little bit of time travel to make people in the late 30s early 40s feel like the did as kids.

I think that's a good way to do it. Although I'd be more likely to say something was good on a message board than in person. But yeah, if it's a friend... "Go check it out" is a good way to not oversell it.

Literally any half decent horror movie... stanger things is a kids series, a watered down E.T... You dont need to be Alien to beat it...

But i'll play along... Sinister, The Purge, Get Out, Incidious, Th Conjuring (1 & 2), When A Stranger Calls (yes, even the remake), The Invitation, Cabin In The Woods (did the referencing thing better and played with the concept in an interesting way), The Witch, Split, The Babadook, etc... the list goes on... far too many to mention...

All of these movies are more scary, disturbing or creepy than Stanger Things... many of them play with genre tropes in interesting ways... most of them are shot better than Stranger Things... they all have more mood and atmosphere than that TV show... and for nearly all of them, one can buy into the risk and consequences of the characters actions... they make you feel it...

I'm not saying Stranger Things is bad, it just can't hold a candle to even an average horror movie... Even a flawed movie like The 9th Life of Louis Drax , which has a central child character and deals with the similar family relationships as in this show, does it so much better... it's actually creepy and haunting and takes it in a truly horrifying direction (worth watching), whereas Stranger Things is a mock 80s kids series, there is no real consequence, you feel no real danger, because its too cute... It's the all action family sequel like Aliens, instead of the original horror movie like Alien...