Stranger Things back in 2016, we’ve been caught in a storm of 1980s nostalgia, cemented by 2017 It’s runaway success. Mullets, glam rock, power dressing and so much more have cycled around to become culturally relevant again, and in no small part due to the grip this decade has on sci-fi and horror media.
A big part of 1980s nostalgia’s powerful allure is that rather than literally recreating the decade, it instead invokes a reflective spirit of how we imagine the period to be – The Babysitter’s neon glows and high school stereotypes or AHS: 1984’s decadent buffet of 80s looks and sounds are our own idealizations of the period reflected back at us, which makes it so appealing.
It’s a period doubly-reflected, first through our own understanding of the decade through the works of John Hughes and Spielberg, and then the distillation of the period down to those cultural snapshots.
The actual media of the 1980s was a lot more dark and gruesome, Scarred for Life’s 2nd volume is a great tome of the unsettling and creepy vibes of even 80s kids’ television.
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