Directed by Matt Duffer Ross Duffer Written by Matt Duffer   Ross Duffer   Jessie Nickson-Lopez   Cast Winona Ryder ... Joyce Byers David Harbour ... Jim Hopper Finn Wolfhard ... Mike Wheeler Millie Bobby Brown ... Eleven Gaten Matarazzo ... Dustin Henderson Caleb McLaughlin ... Lucas Sinclair Natalia Dyer ... Nancy Wheeler Charlie Heaton ... Jonathan Byers Cara Buono ... Karen Wheeler Matthew Modine ... Martin Brenner Joe Chrest ... Ted Wheeler Joe Keery ... Steve Harrington Rob Morgan ... Officer Powell Ross Partridge ... Lonnie Byers Shannon Purser ... Barbara Holland John Reynolds ... Officer Callahan (as John Paul Reynolds) Noah Schnapp ... Will Byers Mark Steger ... The Monster Chris Sullivan ... Benny Hammond Stefanie Butler ... Cynthia David Dwyer ... Earl Catherine Dyer ... Agent Connie Frazier Randy Havens ... Scott Clarke Tobias Jelinek ... Lead Agent Charles Lawlor ... Mr. Melvald Bethany Anne Lind ... Sandra Anniston Price ... Holly Wheeler Tinsley Price ... Holly Wheeler Chester Rushing ... Tommy Hagan Susan Shalhoub Larkin ... Florence Chelsea Talmadge ... Carol Perkins Robert Walker Branchaud ... Agent Repairman (as Robert Walker-Branchaud) Uncredited Cast Owen Beam ... Middle School Student Stephen Dean ... Hawkins Police Officer Isabel Chanel Freeman ... Middle School Kid Shelby Christine Freeman ... Middle School Kid Jim Heard ... Townsperson Walter Hendrix III ... Lab Tech #1 John Archer Lundgren ... Search Party Jaxon McHan ... Fighting Kid Max Perethian ... Lab Tech #2 Brady Rogers ... Firefighter Leticia Sabater ... Salchipapa Singer (spanish promo) Produced by Dan Cohen   Justin Doble   Matt Duffer   Ross Duffer   Karl Gajdusek   Rand Geiger   Cindy Holland   Shawn Levy   Jessica Mecklenburg   Emily Morris   Iain Paterson   Alison Tatlock   Matthew Thunell   Brian Wright   Original Music by Kyle Dixon Michael Stein

Additional Info Premiere: July 15, 2016 DVD Release: October 17, 2017 Blu-ray Release: October 17, 2017 Country: Distributor: Netflix Websites: Production Companies 21 Laps Entertainment Monkey Massacre Netflix Distributors Netflix   (2016-) (World-wide) (video) (SVoD) Warner Home Video   (2017-) (USA) (Blu-ray) Rating Stats Overall Rating -- / 10 Our Rating 7.3 / 10 Your Friends -- / 10 Male Users 6.6 / 10 Female Users 6.4 / 10 Site Ranking #42 / 20,736 Ratings Breakdown Perfect 4 total ratings Almost Perfect 1 total rating Site Ranking