We get another door scene connection when a flayed Bruce (Jake Busey) punches through the window of the hospital room door in pursuit of Nancy and Jonathan, and greets them with a menacing, “Hi there,” a.k.a. Building upon the work I did for seasons 1. The Duffers even told actor Dacre Montgomery that they wanted a villain like Jack Torrance when they cast him in the role of Billy. I was commissioned by Netflix to create the key art for season 3 of Stranger Things. In the next episode, the moment when Billy smashes through the glass window of the sauna door and tries to attack Max with a shard of tile is reminiscent of Jack’s (Jack Nicholson) infamous door breakdown in The Shining. When El tries to find out what happened to Heather using her telepathic powers, the way the red door to Heather’s house materializes in her vision looks a lot like the Shining scene when blood bursts out of the elevator doors, except in reverse.
The Duffer Brothers’ homage to Stephen King continues with yet another nod to The Shining.
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Seth Brundle’s (Jeff Goldblum) gruesome transformation into a man-fly hybrid in Cronenberg’s 1986 movie inspired by George Langelaan’s 1957 short story.īilly’s pleas for Max to help him after the group traps him in the sauna also sound eerily similar to Brundle’s when he’s realizing that his science experiment has gone horribly wrong. Driscoll began exhibiting the physical effects of the Mind Flayer inhabiting their bodies, that truly recall Dr. So when Hawkins’ rats begin horrifically transforming into writhing masses of sentient blood and guts in episode 1, it seems likely that the town has a Cronenberg situation on its hands.īut it’s the closing minutes of episode 4, when both Billy and Mrs. In today’s world, to “Cronenberg” something means to turn it into a grotesque being that resembles one of the mutilated creatures from the director’s movies. Although the Duffers appear to pay homage to several of “ body horror” master David Cronenberg’s movies in season 3, the one that seems to have influenced them the most is The Fly.
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