Stranger Things

This weekend, Halloween approached and many people were excited for their beautiful, lovely, or even creepy costumes that they showed each other. This past weekend for me, besides hanging out with my friend, I watched the first episode of “Stranger Things” and wrote a blog post about it. When I chose to watch “Stranger Things”, I knew that this adventure would provide me with many unexpected and maybe even some dangerous experiences. However, you do not know what is waiting for you until you actually do it. Therefore, I was really enthusiastic to watch this show. In this blog, I will discuss horror elements of Chapter One: The vanishing of Will Byers.
The first episode started with a dark scene with the wind whispering. I began to watch the first episode at midnight; so believe it or not, I have already felt scary at the first minute of the movie. The filmmakers are really professional when combining the wind sound and the creepy music with the laboratory scene. Laboratory always makes the audiences visualize that something is really disgusting will jump out from the nowhere and kill the person in that scene. The scene in the movie happens exactly as same as the imagination of the audience. However, the filmmakers have predicted the audiences’ thought, so before that scene, they focused on filming the door without any sound. The effect of this trick is that the audiences may know that after this, there will be something comes out but they do not know when. Then, the door suddenly opens with a noisy sound. Be honest, I was panic, jumped out of my chair and paused the movie immediately. At that moment, I could hear the sound of my heart beating. It is really interesting that the thing comes out of the door is not an ugly creature. It is a scary scientist who tries to run away from anything. Once again, a legendary motive is used in this movie: trying to escape the creature by using the elevator. The filmmakers try to make the audiences think that the creature will grab the scientist from behind and drag him to it. Unfortunately, the catching scene, ironically, begins when the scientist entered the elevator and was ready to escape. What an unexpected way to begin the first episode.
Then in the scene when Will rides back home, it is really horrifying if there is something suddenly appears in the middle of the road. However, before that, the light from the bicycle turned off and then turned on in a few seconds, but this amount of time is enough to distract Will from the road. Then a dark, creepy, and unknown thing popped up. Will was scary and could not control the bike probably. He rode off the road and crashed. As same as another horror movie, Will ran home in frightening and called for help, but he could not hear anything from the opposite. He ran to the storage, loaded the gun and prepared to fight back. However, it was too late. Unlike the beginning of the movie which the scientist was caught when the creature was on the top of the elevator, this time the creature stood right behind him. The filmmaker can reveal the true identity of the mysterious living thing, but the camera only films the light bulb which is brighter and brighter. Then, bang Will disappear without any clue. The thing which the audiences know about this creature is his creepy voice.
The first episode only has two remarkable scenes but it helps me to make a decision: binge-watch this series now. Besides analyzing the horror element in this episode, I want to say one thing to my future family: if you can read this line, you have to know that do not be afraid of doing anything. You have to go with it, and maybe something bad will happens to you. However, sometimes, bad thing can become a good thing if you consider it as an experience.