Stranger Things: Season 4 has concluded, thus putting a cap on a new, Upside Down monster...sort of. (I mean, in the realm of monsterdom, can any such creature just fade away?)
This particular monster, aka Vecna/Henry (Jamie Campbell Bower), lures the leads into his lair (or is it more a matter of Vecna/Henry reaching out?), elbowing allusions to previous seasons and features (as mentioned in my May post) elements of The Keep, Aliens, The Kindred '87, The Fly '86, The Thing '81 and now that I consider it, Hellraiser, Hellraiser II: Hellbound, Flatliners (either version) and The Gate, though the weaving, Lovecraft/Fulci-esque wraparound owes its largest debt to A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.
In fact, the entire fourth season oozes of Freddy Krueger, and to drive this dreamy point home, Robert Englund's Victor Creel was stitched in, prompting the anguished Hawkins kids to mimic Elm Streeters to defeat their foe.
As with past Stranger Things seasons/stories, the fourth is elevated by its identifiable character queue: Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhead); El "Eleven" Hopper (Mille Bobby Brown); Jim Hopper (David Harbour); Nancy Wheeler (Natalia Dyer); Jonathan Byers (Charlie Heaton); Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo); Robin Buckley (Maya Hawke); Steve Harrington (Joe Kerry); Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink); Lucas Sinclair (Caleb McLaughlin); Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder); Will Byers (Noah Schnapp); Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn); Sam Owens (Paul Reiser); and Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine).
Since Season 4 has (by word of mouth and written testament) left a positive impression on fans, demands now aim for Season 5, enough so that it would be foolish for the Duffer Brothers and Netflix not to move fast on sequelization, especially with a number of anomalies yet unresolved. (Incidentally, the early-July, viewer onslaught for Vol 2's climax caused Netflix to crash. If that doesn't convey shoe-in interest, what the bloody hell does?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp43OdtAAkM
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