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I will talk about new plot details regarding Vecna, the new main villain in Stranger Things 4.
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The Stranger Things franchise has introduced us to villains based on characters from Dungeons
and Dragons. These villains include the Demogorgon, the Mind Flayer, and now,
Vecna. In the context of the fantasy role-playing game, Vecna, also known as the Whispered One or
the Undying King, was a powerful lich, which is basically an undead wizard.
In the context of Stranger Things, Vecna was once a human who mutated into a monster
from overexposure to the Upside Down. In the same virtual interview presentation
where we heard from Finn Wolfhard and Millie Bobby Brown talking about Stranger Things 4,
the show's production designer, Barrie Gower, talked about the villainous new creature.
"What's happened is he's been subjected to all the environments and all the surroundings of
the Upside Down basically for 20 odd years. So, the look for Vecna is, he's humanoid but
we are basically integrating lots of shapes and textures and form from the Upside Down. There's
a lot of roots and vines and very organic shapes and fibrous muscle tissue and what have you."
To understand who and what Vecna is, you must first understand the Creel House
and what happened decades earlier in the 1950s with a man named Victor Creel. Robert Englund,
the horror actor that played Freddy Krueger in the “Nightmare on Elm Street” movies,
is portraying a blind and elder Victor in the main events of season 4. As mentioned by Entertainment
Weekly, Victor was like your typical suburban family man when he moved to a new home in Hawkins
with his wife and two kids, until strange things started to happen. The lights would flicker,
animals would show up dead in their yard. Then one night, the man seemingly killed
his family in gruesome fashion and has been in a psychiatric hospital ever since.
"What occurs in that house is pivotal to understanding what has been happening in
Hawkins all of these years," noted Stranger Things co-creator Ross Duffer. According to
the Duffer Brothers, Vecna is the boogeyman that resides in the Creel House attic.
"Part of the drive and tension of this season is that we have this big new evil emerge in
Hawkins and for the first time ever, Eleven is not there. And not only is she separated by distance,
but at the end of season 3, she's lost her powers, so even when she learns about what
has happened in Hawkins, she is unable to help them in the same way she has before."
To bring this evil to life, Barrie Gower began with a life cast of the actor to ensure all the
prosthetic work would be skin tight. He and his team then spent the next several weeks
using fiberglass and epoxy resin molds to craft warped shapes around the form.
"It's still very much a human beneath it, and we still have panels of flesh which are very pale,
almost anemic looking. And the idea really is that the exposed flesh
that is pale is human skin that hasn't seen sunlight for the last 20 years."
Vecna also leads an army of new Upside Down creatures known as the Demobats.
Matt Duffer explained, "We always like to introduce a new demo-creature, as you will,
and so we were excited about introducing demo-bats. Maybe one of them alone is not
very dangerous, but when there's hundreds and hundreds of them coming to you at the same time,
they're very, very deadly, and they also have the ability to act as spies,
so you may not even see one in the tree, and it spies you, and then suddenly because everything
is a hive mind in the Upside Down, every monster in there knows that you're there."
To summarize, the beauty of Vecna is that he is done almost completely by practical effects,
he is a prosthetic creation. The Duffers seem to have done an excellent job at creating who
seems to be the “final boss” of the Stranger Things franchise. I also don’t think that Victor
Creel is Vecna anymore, but rather an unfortunate victim who got his life ruined by seeing something
so evil and malignant. I do find it interesting that he’s been subjected in the Upside Down for 20
or so years. We shall see who really is the real identity of Vecna. Overall, very exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today.
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