In the first episode, which begins with victim No. You can go to sleep to it now,” he muses. “There’s YouTubers out there who made an hour- or two hour-long video of that clock with a still picture of the clock from one of the episodes. He’s just got this really rad-sounding processing that is just chilling.”Īnd while Henighan knew the clock sound that accompanies him would play a big role in Vecna’s legacy and lore, he’s taken aback by the passionate reaction from the Stranger Things audience, which helped the show score two record binge-watching weekends on Netflix and gave a soaring streaming life to the Kate Bush 1985 song “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God).” “He’s not supernatural he’s not super deep and growly. “If you can’t understand him, it doesn’t matter how the processing works,” he points out. The sound designer says that, thanks to the natural pitch and frequencies in Bower’s voice, he was able to quickly come upon the right processing chain to make Vecna sound menacing yet understandable. He’s going to be relentless and in my brain any time he speaks or is around.” “This voice has to hit a certain way coming out of speakers that makes everyone think: I know this bad guy. “I want it to go down in a historical context of bad guys,” he says of Bower’s monster living among cinema villain royalty.īower put hours into crafting the right voice, which the sound team then took over in editing. Henighan initially put the most pressure around creating Vecna’s voice. Now, we can add the clock and Vecna to that list.” “Because we’ve done so many seasons now, there’s a fantastic palette of signature sounds with the Upside Down. You Stranger-ize it a little bit: What makes it feel like it’s part of our world?” he says. “All of these ideas are born out of the realistic nature of sounds, but we bend them into the world of Stranger Things. A lot of times, it’s not the big, aggressive, gory horror sounds, it’s the simplicity of a clock and the psychological thing of Vecna being in your mind and playing around with your memories,” he says of his team’s task with the penultimate season, which was released in two parts, with the final two episodes that make up Volume 2 releasing July 1. “This season’s sound is almost a touchstone of what we as humans get really piqued on and really freaked out by. If season three was “gore,” season four is “psychological.” From those early conversations, Henighan says he and his sound team took the descriptor and ran with it. Courtesy of NetflixĪs a creative starting point each year, the Duffer Brothers provide Henighan with adjectives to describe the season. The clock that haunts the teen victims of Hawkins was inspired by a house grandfather clock that Vecna encountered when he was a boy, then named Henry Creel, and realized he was in touch with the supernatural. His victims know they are being hunted when the grandfather clock and its ominous chime appear in hallucinations. When he re-emerges in season four, he does so by infiltrating the minds of his victims and preying on their trauma. Brenner’s (Matthew Modine) Hawkins Laboratory program that Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) is later a part of, evolves into the slithering, psychological demon that viewers meet in season four after Eleven, as a younger child, overpowers him and banishes him away into the hidden world of Hawkins, where he would go on to hone his powers for years. The Upside Down monster, who is revealed to be the first child patient with telekinetic powers in Dr. The clock ends up playing a large role, as it signals Vecna’s arrival and that time is running out. At that time, I didn’t know the clock we have in season four was going to be such a storyline.” “I still remember Shawn listening to it and being like, ‘Is that a clock? Why do we have a clock in there?’ But Matt and Ross really liked it and we just went with it. “I actually used the chime, and I didn’t really know this until I thought about it,” Henighan, re-recording mixer and supervising sound editor, tells The Hollywood Reporter.
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