How ‘Dust Bunny’ Went From an Unused ‘Amazing Stories’ Episode to Bryan Fuller’s Dazzling Feature Directorial Debut

It is a word routinely trotted out to describe things that evoke a very specific time and place – chiefly the movies that Steven Spielberg and his partners at Amblin produced in the 1980s that casually mixed real-world problems with otherworldly awe and terror. These were the movies that seduced you at the video store with their eye-catching box art and were best watched in the living room, six inches from the TV, sitting cross-legged in your favorite pajamas. “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.” “Poltergeist.” “Gremlins.” That kind of thing.

“Stranger Things” has, rightfully, been described as Amblinesque, as has Disney+’s recent “Star Wars” series “Skeleton Crew.”

But “Dust Bunny,…