‘Summer of ’84’ Review: Nostalgia Runs Out of Steam in Disappointing Diet ‘Stranger Things’ [Sundance]
Posted on Sunday, January 28th, 2018 by Ethan Anderton
While nostalgia for the 1980s has run rampant for years now, in a post-Stranger Things world, movies looking to capture the spirit of the decade and still deliver some thrills and chills need to try a little bit harder to stand out. With the intriguing plot involving the possibility of a serial killer living next door to a teen boy, Summer of ’84 looked like it could be a more mature, bloodier and satisfying piece of genre filmmaking. Unfortunately, it mostly coasts by on nostalgia alone and doesn’t bring much of anything new to the table. Read More »
