Films and TV shows that feel like Little Dark Age by MGMT
A theatrical, tongue-in-cheek goth dance number that dresses real dread about a darkening world in glossy 80s synths.
- Stranger Things (2016): Synth-soaked 80s nostalgia with a creeping supernatural dread underneath.
- The Lost Boys (1987): Campy, gothic 80s vampires and neon-lit nightlife match the song's playful menace.
- What We Do in the Shadows (2019): Deadpan gothic comedy where the macabre is mined for jokes.
- It Follows (2015): Pulsing synth score and suburban dread in a decaying, timeless America.
- The Neon Demon (2016): Glossy, hypnotic, synth-driven nightmare with icy stylized beauty.
- American Psycho (2000): Satirical 80s sheen hiding something rotten and darkly funny.
- Donnie Darko (2001): Suburban 80s setting, apocalyptic unease and ironic gloom.
- Dark Shadows (2012): Gothic camp meets a fish-out-of-time sense of fading eras and dark humor.
