It's impossible to get out of your head once you've seen it, and it definitely deserves a spot on this list.Ī minor storyline, but still pretty scary, this episode shows the culmination of Steve and Dustin’s hunt for Dart. Before long, the Mindflayer takes advantage of the opportunity and attacks Will in a thoroughly horrifying manner. He bursts outside to escape it, but decides to stand his ground on the soccer field behind the school. While running around looking for Dart, Will finds himself thrust back into the Upside Down, and being chased by a dark, ominous cloud through his school hallways. That advice comes to fruition in the episode’s scariest moment. Earlier in the episode, Will asks Bob for help, and while Bob innocently misunderstands, he gives Will the worst advice ever for dealing with an extra-dimensional mind-controlling monster. While the Demogorgon was scary in Season 1, it doesn't begin to terrify the way the Mindflayer is capable of.īut, that’s not our only chance to see the Mindflayer in all its glory. Its imposing size is enough to scare the heck out of anyone. Thanks to another drawing Will had done earlier, she is able to learn that this creepy creature is the one we know as the Mindflayer. For a brief moment, Joyce notices a shape in the relief of the sky behind Will. In “The Pollywog,” Joyce uses Bob’s help to watch the camera footage that Will and his friends captured while they were trick-or-treating. He packs it up and takes it with him to school, to show the other members of the party, but it quickly levels up and gets loose in the school, which leads us to the real reason this episode made our list. RELATED: 'Stranger Things' Spinoff Shows Are Being Discussed, Says Netflix Head Ted Sarandosĭustin discovers a slimy, new friend in his trash can, but it quickly grows to something out of his control. This is one absolutely terrifying episode from start to finish. Not because seeing the actual body is scary, but believing that Will has been overpowered by the Upside Down is incredibly scary. After everything we’ve seen in “Holly, Jolly,” that’s almost the worst part. And, finally, this is the episode where Will’s body is found in the quarry. They start with crushing cans, but soon escalate to them trying to get Elle to hurt other living things.
In flashback, we see Eleven back at the lab with her “Papa,” being forced to use her powers in experiments. It’s not just the present day stuff that’s scary, either. While lights blinking aren’t inherently terrifying, knowing what it means for Will and what Holly sees come out of the wall definitely adds to this episode’s creepy factor. Later, we follow Holly Wheeler down a creepy hallway thanks to Joyce’s Christmas lights obsession.
And it’s, well, "terrifying" is putting it mildly. We get our first hands-on experience as we watch Barb try and fail to escape the Upside Down. The events of Stranger Things Season 1, Episode 3, “Holly, Jolly” are some of the scariest of the entire series. It built the Upside Down into the nightmare-inducing alternate universe it truly is. In some respects, Stranger Things Season 1 is the scariest of them all.
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