It's decent. Two unnecessarily slow episodes at the start, but once it gets going it's good fun, breakneck pace. It's basically a copy of all the stuff that OP mentions (along with dozens more, but it's mostly King, Spielberg, Craven, Carpenter IMO): whole scenes to settings to clothes to lines to monsters to props etc etc. They've attempted to recreate the feel of that time (78-85) and they've probably done as good as job as you would hope. I wanted to love the soundtrack, but it was a bit of a let down, and found it bizarrely off in the first couple of episodes. *
It's fun, especially if you were an eighties kid, but ultimately not that impressive.
Recommend though. Duffer Brothers were involved in Wayward Pines, and while you could attempt to make an argument that was a little more original, it was craaaaap. This is also just 8 episodes, which was a relief.
7/10. Watch it