Stranger Things still has "movie touch points" in season 5, but its creators were more concerned with doing justice to the story it began almost a decade ago

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The Duffer Brothers on how Stranger Things 5 is looking back to season one

Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair and Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield in Stranger Things 5.
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The final season of Stranger Things is just a few short weeks away. As the hype for the last ever episodes of the beloved adventure show builds, the Duffer Brothers have been talking up the new episodes and why, this time around, the new season is not specifically inspired by a classic horror movie.

"We talked a lot for season four about Nightmare On Elm Street and Hellraiser for the fact that the really psychological '80s horror was our touch point," said Ross Duffer in the latest issue of SFX magazine.

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Will Salmon is the Streaming Editor for GamesRadar+. He has been writing about film, TV, comics, and music for more than 15 years, which is quite a long time if you stop and think about it. At Future he launched the scary movie magazine Horrorville, relaunched Comic Heroes, and has written for every issue of SFX magazine for well over a decade. His music writing has appeared in The Quietus, MOJO, Electronic Sound, Clash, and loads of other places too.

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