Films and TV shows that feel like People Are Strange by Echo and the Bunnymen
A moody, outsider's night drive through a neon-lit town where everyone looks a little wrong and you don't quite belong, which is both unsettling and seductive.
The Lost Boys (1987): The song's home: Echo and the Bunnymen's cover plays as the new kid arrives in the vampire-haunted boardwalk town of Santa Carla.
Fright Night (1985): Another 80s suburban vampire story with a seductive neighbour, and the same mix of horror, humour and neon.
Near Dark (1987): A dark, dusty vampire road-gang film from the same year, with a strong sense of a drifting family of outsiders.
Stranger Things (2016): 80s small-town weirdness, misfit kids and a supernatural dread, set to a post-punk and new wave soundtrack.
Donnie Darko (2001): It uses Echo and the Bunnymen's 'The Killing Moon' and shares the song's strange, alienated suburban feel.
The Craft (1996): Outcast teens find dark power in a world that finds them strange, with a goth, moody edge.
Edward Scissorhands (1990): A gothic outsider in a pastel suburb where the song's line about feeling out of place fits perfectly.
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