“I really was just having fun with all of the teen tropes of the eighties, that we would see in all those John Hughes movies and and that whole world,” says Khan, noting that doesn’t just reference ’80s culture but sharply comments on what’s changed.

Source: https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/10/totally-killer-is-slasher-science-at-its-prime/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=totally-killer-is-slasher-science-at-its-prime

It was the grimy, dead-souled antithesis to John Hughes' peppy tales of suburban woe.

Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/1235063/john-wick-4-and-why-keanu-reeves-is-so-important/

Then came 1983's "Jaws 3-D," a film that began as a parody written by none other than John Hughes (!) and titled "Jaws 3, People 0," prior to being restyled as a (sort of) more serious follow-up.

Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/1383208/netflix-september-2023-movies-steven-spielberg-jaws/

This is the first film not written by John Hughes, with screenwriter Elisa Bell instead behind the keyboard, and it shows.

Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/1476493/national-lampoon-movies-ranked/