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The faceless creature in Stranger Things combines design elements and traits from Predator and the first two Alien movies. For one, there’s the sticky residue that the creature both leaves in its wake and uses to trap its victims. Whenever characters enter into the creature's netherworld, they first have to claw their way through the goo. In episode eight, we learn it uses humans as live incubators, pinning them down and impregnating them with a snake-like analogue to Alien’s “face-huggers.” (The final scenes, which suggest a sequel of sorts, hint at a possible dinner scene like John Hurt’s in the original film.) And speaking of the face-huggers, they spring out of an egg that peels back into four corners when it opens; in Stranger Things, the creature’s face does likewise.