The small town of Hawkins has become a television enigma as well as a pop culture icon. The nerve center of all the mysteries of the Serie stranger things, returns for the new season with a new layer of symbols. And if in the first deliveries you define the limit between a ghost town and something more complex, now it becomes the epicenter of terror. In one of its curious plot twists, the script for stranger things he decided to include the usual haunted house trope within his story.
But it is not just a cursed construction under the stalk of fearsome forces or even a terrifying space. He also unravels several of the curious mysteries that Hawkins still seems to hold in his long list of oddities. How could it be otherwise, again the series appeals to the fact of references to support his reinvention of the codes of pop culture. And Creel House ends up being something more than a construction. It is actually the tip of the iceberg of something more complex, dark and gloomy. And without a doubt, the total announcement that the tone and rhythm of stranger things just completely changed.
As many other places in Hawkins, Creel House seems to be haunted by a circumstantial past that turned it into a terrifying center. According to local legend, the house is the scene of inexplicable situations and a turbulent past. So the Duffer brothers take a step towards the larger idea of the haunted house in horror movies. in the manner of The Haunting of Hill Hunting and The Haunting of Bly Manor by Mike Flanagan, Creel House is the first step in a long journey towards a dark tale.
A new space to understand the maturation of the series
But Creel House is not just an oddity in the story of the fourth season of stranger things. It is also the bridge between the new chapters of the series and the connection with the latent mystery that has always been part of history. With surprising skill, the script managed to incorporate the story of the Creels and sustain a discourse about unspeakable horrors.
From inside the house (which is so reminiscent, and in so many ways, of the one Pennywise inhabits in Item), to the notion of what lives under its macabre facade. The new point of terror stranger things has an illustrious past. From being an opulent mansion, little by little it became the center of inexplicable circumstances. But more than that, it is also the center of a phenomenon that kills animals, something that could already be seen in the trailer. In addition, it turns the house into the scene of a series of violent crimes. Children murdered in the midst of unexplained circumstances. It is impossible not to draw parallels between the story of what happens in Creel House and a classic saga of horror movies.
The references — and substance — of the iconic Nightmare The M Street gravitates on the history of Creel House. To the extreme, that the parallelism reaches a new and disconcerting level. In chapter four of stranger thingsVictor Creel, former owner and a terrifying mystery to Hawkins is at the center of the story. And he’s played by none other than Robert Englund, known for playing Wes Craven’s Freddy Krueger. And just like the monstrous character, Victor is framed for a series of monstrous crimes.
It is evident that the Duffers decided to create a story within a story. Not just for staging the horror that awaits in hawkins, this time more related and related than ever to the Other Side. At the same time, it also strengthens the mythology of the program. As if that weren’t enough, Creel house evades the clichés of the typical seasonal mystery. If in the third season, the Starcourt shopping center was something more sinister than a building, Creel house is more than a legend. Y stranger things it brilliantly plays with that perception until it makes a clever connection with all the real muscle of its central story.
Stranger Things, the best for last
Of course, it is clear that Victor Creel, who committed heinous crimes and insisted he was pushed by a vengeful demon, it’s more than meets the eye. But this time, stranger things will prove that the supernatural connection in Hawkins is more disturbing than might be supposed. Much more poisonous and disturbing than ever shown before.
Hawkins is cursed and this is a fact that the season of stranger things makes it clear from its first chapters. But where does the curse come from? Finally, stranger things is about to reveal all its secrets. And to do it with an unexpected elegance that once again makes the series an event.