Achieving an iconic villain is no easy task, and Stranger Things had already set the bar very high with the demogorgon. However, the biggest enemy in the Netflix series is not them, but rather Vecna, a very powerful creature shrouded in mystery that we will get to know in more depth later on. fifth season which just arrived on streaming.
I won’t go in big spoiler about the last season of Stranger Thingsbut I will mention how it is Vecna’s triumphant appearance this doesn’t happen until the last episode of Volume 1.
Vecna enters the Military Access Control Zone (MAC-Z) through a portal that opens from the World upside down. At first we only see his shadow passing through the reddish opening, and then he shows himself to us in all his evil.
To create this scene that should have a great emotional impact, the Duffer Brothers They took as a reference the triumphal entry that Darth Vader makes in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016).
“We knew that when it arrived, we wanted it to feel like an important moment” he explained Ross Duffer. “The moment he walked out that door, he felt the power of Vecna. “You felt how scary it was.”
Hellraiser and Star Wars gave rise to the Stranger Things villain
But Vecna is not just about image, her voice is also a powerful element. Jamie Campbell Bowerthe actor who plays the villain of Stranger Thingsdidn’t catch Darth Vader as a reference on this occasion, but the interpretation of Douglas Bradley like Pinhead in the movies creator of hell.
“Doug is amazing how Pinhead and these first three films are amazing,” he shared the actor Vecna in Stranger Things of Netflix. “I often sent the Duffers the gif of Hellraiser IIIin which he says, “I am the way” before the windows explode. “I used to put that at the end of emails.”