Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. I just spent a few days with my kids in Santa Cruz, where the 35th anniversary of “The Lost Boys” was being celebrated. They do so because it was filmed there and people cherish vampire movies because murder was legal in the ’80s and vampires went…

How do you do, fellow “Stranger Things” kids? Original photo courtesy Tina Rowden/Netflix. What a season-ender for “Stranger Things.” It was big. And I think I finally figured out why it’s not just so good, but how a how a show set in the bright, plastic, superficial ’80s works…