uThe trailers of movies and television series allow us to take a brief look at what we will see in them and, if they are used for something else, it is to generate desire for the day of the premiere to arrive. Some tell us more details about the plot and, for that reason, there are quite a few viewers who prefer to gobble up the films or episodes without knowing anything. But what Netflix has shown us about the new season of stranger things (since 2016) is very respectful in that regard.
The five trailers that have been released so far are limited to presenting certain situations in which the characters find themselves, from Millie Bobby Brown’s Eleven, through Joe Keery and company’s Steve Harrington, to David Harbour’s Jim Hopper, and the environments in which they are found. But in no way have they made us impertinent revelations, spoilers that they twist our expression of annoyance, nor have they dedicated themselves to summarizing what is happening like others.
And one of the elements that has been insisted on in the second trailer is a very disturbing grandfather clock, a carillon from the Creel house on which the creators of stranger things have spoken in an interview for IGN. “It’s a really essential part of the mystery that our group at Hawkins is trying to solve,” says Ross Duffer. “So I don’t want to give too much away other than to say that this watch plays a role. very, very important for the future”.
A strange clock in the haunted house of ‘Stranger Things’
“We’ve wanted to do this for a long time. the haunted house”, acknowledges Matt Duffer referring to the place where the protagonists come across this instrument to measure the passing of minutes. “Every year we try to do something different. This has been a more horror-oriented season. We had our children, who are obviously in high school, and it seemed very natural to us that they were in a horror movie.” And he adds: “And you don’t want to see the clock! If you see the clock, it’s not cool”.
Not surprisingly and frankly, it cannot be assumed that featuring Robert Englund in the fourth season of stranger things like Victor Creel is casual. Because having in this eighties fiction the interpreter who embodied one of the iconic monsters of that time, the oneiric freddy krueger, is a real hoot. Despite the fact that Matt Duffer declares that “it was like destiny”, that “it was destined to happen”. Nonsense, as Ebenezer Scrooge would say.
We can consider it very logical that they wanted him to join the cast “in a season so deeply inspired by the series of Nightmare in Elm street [1984] and, especially, for his performance in those films.” Although the Duffer Brothers assure that it was the Californian actor who suggested that they count on him for the next stranger things. In any case, it is due to having gotten into the ectoplasmic skin of the homicidal spirit in eight feature films.
The mystery of the clock, the Creel house, the Upside Down World and the new great villain
However, we don’t know if Robert Englund’s Victor Creel will be the one to reveal to us what the hell is going on with the damned clock in his family’s old home; nor its possible link with the Upside Down World, in which the characters will be “longer” than in the other seasons, which “excites them a lot”; or with the new great villain which they show us in the trailer. It is called Vecna and comes from “the hellraiser” from the filmmaker brothers.
They wanted to offer stranger things a horror figure with the category of Freddy Krueger himself, Pinhead or Pennywiseantagonist of Item [1986]. “Those were the monsters that really inspired us this season,” admits Ross Duffer. “Another thing we really wanted to do was go back to the first season and make a monster that we could mostly do practically. What you are seeing here is one ninth percent of [efectos] practical”.
“And Vecna, throughout the season, is 90 percent practical,” he continues. “We wanted a presence on set that our actors could react to, whereas in season three they reacted to a beach ball. We wanted something that we could film, and I think that makes this villain scarier, more real and tangible, and we’re really excited for people to see it this season.” Jon Favreau and Baby Yoda like this.