School’s Out In Stranger Things 3… Richard Edwards Heads Down To Hawkins’ New Mall To Find Out How The 1985-set Season Is Shaping Up
IT’S ONE OF THOSE INDISPUTABLE FACTS of life that summers when you were a kid were way better than they are now. Halcyon days when you had no worries about getting up for school or work in the morning, those endless evenings with nothing more pressing to do than hang out with your mates, talking about absolutely nothing – nobody would have dreamed of complaining about the weather being too hot. And if you grew up in the States you can probably ratchet up that nostalgia factor by a few notches, seeing as those summer months are unlikely to have been ruined by quite so many mediocre “rainy day” activities.
So for Stranger Things, a precision-engineered nostalgia delivery mechanism in the form of an ’80s-set sci-fi drama, the fact that the upcoming third season is leaving the show’s traditional autumnal haunts behind to bring summer to Hawkins, Indiana, should see the deification of the good old days turned up to, well, Eleven.
“We always knew we wanted to set season three in the summer,” says Stranger Things executive producer and occasional director Shawn Levy, gamely talking to SFX on the phone as he boards a flight. “We wanted the fun and the kind of unique freedom that summers in the mid-’80s seemed to have. [This setting] brings the freedom that comes from not being in school, and that means summer camps, cookouts, barbecues and the swimming pool. It’s just a different ethos, and it allows season three to really start from a fairly fun, light-hearted place before it eventually devolves into far darker plotlines and threats.”
TIME AFTER TIME
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Making Alien - Jaws in Space - Forty-five years on from its original release, Alien continues to terrify. We dissect what arguably remains the most chilling instalment in the saga
The seven-strong crew of the commercial mining spacecraft the Nostromo seal their fate after reluctantly responding to a mysterious distress signal on a hostile planet. Here, a face-hugging alien from a derelict ship impregnates and later kills executive officer Kane (John Hurt) after its offspring is birthed onboard. After being unleashed, the fearsome newborn with acid for blood proceeds to dispatch the remainder of the crew.Ridley Scott's much more convoluted prequels have yet to reveal how the knowledge that led to this initial interception was acquired. However, the premise of the original Alien is perfect in its uncomplicated purity.
PURE AND SIMPLE
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TO CAP IT ALL OFF
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FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE WALKING DEAD SPIN-OFF SHOWRUNNER DAVID ZABEL ON BEING GIVEN THE TOUGH TASK OF REUNITING DARYL AND CAROL IN FRANCE
SILENT KILLERS
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BRING OUT YOUR DEAD
THE GHOST WITH THE MOST RETURNS FINALLY - IN BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
TEENAGE DREAM
JOE LOCKE HITS THE ROAD RUNNING
MOB RULE THE PENGUIN
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SEASON OF THE WITCH
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Ghouls Allowed
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