See Vecna Come to Life In Amazing Stranger Things Season 4 BTS Video
Caution: This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 4, part 1
A new behind-the-scenes video showcases the rigorous special effects process for creating Stranger Things' terrifying new villain, Vecna. Netflix's record-breaking series recently returned to the streaming platform after a three-year absence marked by pandemic-related delays and quickly dominated viewership. Season 4's narrative buildup toward the show's final season thrusts Eleven and her friends back into the middle of an even bloodier supernatural war spanning the Upside Down, Russia, and several cities across '80s America. Now teenagers, the Hawkins clan of monster-fighters must contend with a new evil.
Season 4 sees the introduction of Vecna, a malicious being akin to Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street, who preys on the past traumas of children and murders them from the Upside Down with telekinetic powers. Vecna is easily the most cunning and humanoid creature the heroes have faced yet, inspired by the cold and calculated design of the Night King from Game of Thrones. Originally thought to be legendary Freddy actor Robert Englund under the proverbial hood, part 1's finale reveals Vecna as a transformed One from Hawkins Lab.
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Jamie Campbell Bower, who makes his franchise debut playing One/Vecna in Stranger Things season 4, punches up the antagonist's dread-inducing drawl and nightmarish visuals by committing to a long makeup application process that brings the character to life as opposed to relying on CGI. The official Stranger Things Twitter page shares an exciting BTS video showing Bower going through this procedure, overseen by makeup department
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