Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn says he was shocked Netflix didn't cut *that* brutal scene
Arguably the darkest installment of Stranger Things yet, season 4 features its fair share of death scenes. One is so brutal, though, that star Joseph Quinn was shocked to see it make the final cut.
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In a new interview with Screen Rant (opens in new tab), Quinn recalled a scene in the first episode of the fourth chapter, which sees his character Eddie Munson witness the death of cheerleader Chrissy Cunningham (Grace Van Dien). As Chrissy's consciousness becomes trapped in Vecna's Mind Lair, Eddie looks on in terror as her body starts levitating in the real world.
As the invisible villain takes a hold of her, she slams back-first onto the ceiling, and her fingers and limbs snap in different directions. Finally, Chrissy's eyes pop back into her head, leaving her with nothing but bloody sockets, and Eddie runs out of his trailer in fear. It's proper grisly stuff for Stranger Things' standards.
"I remember in the first session of ADR that I had, they were like, 'Should we show you the death?' and I was like, 'Yeah, sure', Quinn remembered. "They showed me and I was like, 'There's no way you're gonna get away with that, Netflix aren't gonna let you do that. But they did and yeah, I think it's fucking horrible."
The Netflix show's creators, the Duffer Brothers, have since expressed regret over killing off Chrissy so soon, partly due to Van Dien's unexpected chemistry with Quinn in a sequence they shot late into production.
"We always have those moments [of 'what have we done?']," Matt Duffer told TVLine (opens in new tab). "We shot the quote-unquote drug-deal scene
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