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The Hawk Theater was a movie theater located in downtown Hawkins, in the town square.

History[]

1960s[]

The Blob and The Mummy were both seen playing at the Hawk during the early 1960s.[2]

1983[]

In November 1983, the Hawk started showing All The Right Moves.

Hawk graffiti

The defaced marquee

On November 12, Steve Harrington, Tommy H and Carol Perkins sprayed derogatory messages on the Hawk's front billboard, calling Steve's girlfriend Nancy "Nancy 'the Slut' Wheeler", after Steve thought he saw Nancy sleep with Jonathan Byers. This led to a confrontation between Nancy, Jonathan, and Steve in an alley next to the cinema, ultimately ending in a fistfight and the arrest of Nancy and Jonathan.

Later that day, a regretful Steve volunteered to remove the graffiti from the Hawk Theater billboard.

1984[]

In October 1984, the Hawk Theater was showing a newly released blockbuster called The Terminator.

Robin Buckley worked at the Hawk for part of 1984 before later being fired.>[1]

1985[]

After the opening of the Starcourt Mall in 1985, stores in downtown Hawkins financially suffered from a lack of customers; the new mall even had its own cinema, called "Starcourt Cinema".

Staff[]

Behind the scenes[]

According to visual effects supervisor, Paul Graff, the initial outline for the third season's finale would have seen the Spider Monster wreck the Hawkins town square during a Fourth of July parade, damaging the Hawk theater in the process:

We heard this idea that the spider monster was going to crash the Fourth of July parade in Hawkins. It would be a real Godzilla-type story, or like the T-Rex in Jurassic Park, chasing the kids in a car. In my mind, I was seeing shots of people running away and screaming, and this mad panic. Maybe you'd see a tree getting knocked over or a car flying through the air and landing in the Hawkins movie theater. Maybe the Duffers would put the title of an '80s film they don't like on the marquee and we’d throw a car at it. I don't know — maybe that was a stupid idea.
— Paul Graff[3]


Trivia[]

  • In the first season, Jonathan Byers failed to make sure Will came home the night he disappeared because he was working late. While his job is never stated in the series, the Montauk bible states that he worked at the town's movie theater. If taken to be canon, it can be assumed Jonathan quit the job following the first season, as it's never mentioned in the second season and he begins working as an intern at the Hawkins Post in the third season.
  • Bradley's Olde Tavern, located at 2 Oak Street, Jackson, Georgia was used as the exterior for the theater. A false theater marquee was added for filming purposes.
  • The alley where Steve and Jonathan had a fistfight in season 1 is located directly behind Bradley's Olde Tavern.
  • In Stranger Things: Rebel Robin, it is mentioned that Robin Buckley worked at the Hawk Theater in 1984 and was later fired.>[1]

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