“Stranger Things” Returns With A Scarier, Mature New Season | #CineBuzzIndica

The second season of “Stranger Things” had already served up a good dose of scares and horror scenes, but the fourth year of the series arrives in an even more terrifying atmosphere, now that its main threat attacks the characters’ minds and the danger may be at hand. anywhere.

After almost three years, the science fiction series from Netflix returns with a new season, which will be divided into two parts: the first wave of episodes was released this Friday (27) and the second arrives at streaming only on the 1st of July. And both promise to keep the public awake at night.

In this fourth season, episodes begin with the Hawkins teenagers separated. Not just because of the distance, since Joyce (Winona Ryder) decided to leave the city after the “death” of Hopper (David Harbor), but especially for the lack of sync and the internal wounds that the battle at Starcourt left. Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), Will (Noah Schnapp) and jonathan (Charlie Heaton) try to adapt to life in California; Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) are now part of a Dungeons & Dragons group; and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) wants to leave his nerdy side behind, especially with the end of his relationship with Max (Sadie Sink).

Even with the initial distance, one thing that Duffer brothers, the creators of “Stranger Things”, do very well is to work individual cores and tie all the ends in a central event, which this time is marked by the mysterious and macabre deaths of Hawkins students. Certain that the supernatural creatures have found a new portal to invade their reality, the friends once again prove their chemistry and connection as they work together to discover how the Upside Down is involved in these mysterious deaths.

After the Demogorgon and the Breaker of Minds, the main responsible for installing the atmosphere of terror in the streets of the city is Vecna, a monster with a conscience that feeds on the pain, regret and fear of its victims. And if the second season was inspired by “Attack of the Cursed Worms” (1970), “The Exorcist” (1973), “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977), “The Scarecrow’s Revenge” (1981) and “Young Witches” (1996), the fourth has “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (1984) as its main reference. These horror elements don’t make the new chapters repetitive, but they open up a more enriching, deep and nerdy narrative, just the way the characters themselves like it.

It’s not just the flashing lights scenes, the jump scares as in “The Haunting of Hill House” and the victims’ bodies having their bones shattered in graphic moments, which contribute to increasing the atmosphere of tension. The soundtrack also plays an effective and spectacular role that even gives shivers of fear, going through “Dream a Little Dream of Me”, “Running Up That Hill”, “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” to the sound of the clock warning that the characters’ lifespans are running out.

Now that Eleven has lost her powers, the plot makes room and highlights the characters to contribute even more to the mission to save the world. And that power falls into the hands of Max, nancy (Natalie Dyer), robin (Maya Hawke) and Suzie (Gabriella pizzalo), given that Joyce and Murray (Brett Gelman), who would be the adults responsible, embark on a suicide mission to rescue Hopper from Russian prison, and the duo’s journey serves more as comic relief than advancing the story.

The first part of “Stranger Things 4” materializes the end of the protagonists’ childhood and it is not only the obstacles – increasingly dangerous – that show this, but when each one needs to reflect on who is the person they want to become and become. they will let fear stop them from achieving that goal. To make it out of this adventure alive, they’ll have to make sacrifices, get back to working as a team, and trust their potential to end the curse that haunted Hawkins for decades.