Bleeding Edge and Stranger Things

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

"The Montauk Project is every horrible suspicion you've ever had since World War II, all the paranoid production values, a vast underground facility, exotic weapons, space aliens, time travel, other dimensions, shall I go on?" (Bleeding Edge, p. 117)

In Bleeding Edge, the Montauk Project is a significant element whose ontological status remains unclear; considering the novel's architecture, there seems to be a mutual reflecting of 9/11 and Montauk Project.


In Stranger Things, the Montauk Project is explicitly linked to MK Ultra, which as such was real. The serial's way of telling the story, with its many Spielbergian references to the 1980s, makes the narration more fantasy-like and less political than Pynchon's novel, though.

Eleven kills the Monster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4dzQ4_MI3s


http://www.businessinsider.de/what-inspired-stranger-things-montauk-project-2016-9?r=US&IR=T

> ... We've had fun naming all the movies that "Stranger Things" is paying homage to, but it's equally fascinating to see how it's playing with decades-old government conspiracy theories ... <

Do the Duffer brothers read Pynchon?

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