just yesterday Netflixrevealed the new trailer for the season 4 from stranger thingsand among various novelties and surprises, the series of NetflixThey introduced us to their new great and terrifying enemy, which they intend to defeat with the help of raise and his friends, but despite the fact that what was revealed to us is little, we already know that this new enemy has in common with the previous ones: he will share a name with another classic villain from Dungeons & Dragons.
It was like this, like yesterday, Netflix released a new trailer for the upcoming, fourth and final season of stranger thingsthat although as we have been able to observe, the series will have a lot of mystery and horror, one of the biggest surprises came with the revelation of a new enemy, which is a humanoid creature with pale and shiny skin and an empty nasal cavity .
This new creature warns someone: “Your suffering has almost come to an end”during the trailer and appears to be a new entity tied to the Upside Down; and just like its predecessors: Mind Flayer Y demogorgongot their name from the classic monsters of Dungeons & Dragonsthis new entity also takes its name from the tradition of d&d.
Since, according to IGN, the new enemy is called neighborand for those who do not know the franchise, neighbor is a famous lich and one of the most iconic villains in Dungeons & Dragonswith roots in the early parts of the game, this iconic Eye and Hand of neighbor were legendary artifacts that first appeared in Eldritch Wizardryan initial supplement of Dungeons & Dragons.
neighbordid not appear until 1990 in the famous adventure Vecna Lives, and at the end of that adventure, neighbor is banished to ravenloftbut appears in many other adventures later on, and among his most recent appearances, neighborappeared in the ending of Critical Role and appeared in the animated film The Legend of Vox Machina What The Whispered Onean undead deity trying to cross over to the material plane.
Now, since we take out demogorgon Y Mind Flayer to theme, were represented through CGI, the Duffer Brothers point out that neighbor is mainly practical effects and was inspired by characters like freddie kruger and Pinhead, “Something else we really wanted was to go back to Season 1 and make a monster that we could actually make in practice.“, said Ross Duffer in his interview recently.
“What you see here are [efectos] 90% practical. And Vecna, throughout the season, is 90% practical. We wanted a presence on set that our actors could react to, whereas in season 3 they reacted to a beach ball. We wanted something in there that we could film, and I think that makes this villain scarier and more real and tangible, and we’re really excited for people to see him this season.”the IGN interview concluded, Ross Duffer.
Stranger Things Season 4: Part 1 will debut in Netflix the may 27thand the Part 2 will premiere on 1st of Julyso the series does not plan to make his followers wait long, well done Netflix.