Bollywood: Stranger Things Season 4 Trailer: 11 Reveals In First Look Teaser

Netflix's first look teaser for Stranger Things hinted at massive changes for the show's lore - here's a full breakdown of all the reveals it offers. The streaming wars are heating up, leading Netflix to launch their TUDUM event (named after the sound of the Netflix loading screen that plays at the beginning of each program). Naturally, Stranger Things, the streaming giant's flagship sci-fi TV series, appeared, with a teaser trailer centered around a new Stranger Things location called the Creel house.

The Stranger Things teaser trailer is delightfully atmospheric, with several callbacks to early seasons. Netflix knows viewers are already eager to see season 4, which is due for release in 2022, and they seem to be encouraging audiences to view each trailer as another jigsaw puzzle piece. In this case, the Byers family and even Eleven are entirely absent - a mark of how confident Netflix can now be about the entire cast, as trailers for earlier seasons focused entirely on Eleven's arc. Instead, this remains in Hawkins, confirming that the troubled town's story is far from over.

It's easy to miss, but the Stranger Things season 4 teaser trailer suggests season 4 may rewrite the franchise's lore. It offers subtle hints that the Upside-Down has been affecting Hawkins for a lot longer than anyone thought, potentially rewriting everything that has happened before. Here's the full breakdown of the Stranger Things season 4 teaser trailer.

The Stranger Things season 4 teaser trailer opens with a scene that's clearly set in the 1950s, with the Creel family arriving at their new home in Hawkins. They're deliberately presented as though they're the perfect American family, a married couple with two children, a boy and a girl. The husband - Victor Creel - will be an important figure in Stranger Things season 4, with an older version of the character played by established horror actor Robert Englund. He's best known for playing the iconic serial killer Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street film franchise.

Naturally, this is Stranger Things, so it's safe to assume the future is bleak for the Creel family. But the flickering of the lights is unexpected because in Stranger Things this is usually a sign of the Upside-Down exerting its influence on the world above. Until now, it had seemed as though Hawkins only became vulnerable to creatures from the Upside-Down when Eleven opened the portal at Hawkins Lab, but it now seems as though the fabric between this dimension and the Upside-Down may have been thin all along, meaning Eleven only created the gate when her powers interacted with a pre-existing weakness in reality. This further raises the disturbing possibility that the Mind-Flayer can continue to affect Hawkins, even now the various gates have been closed.

Even more sinister, the daughter in the Creel family discovers the bloodied corpse of a rabbit left outside the house. In Stranger Things season 1, lights flickered whenever a Demogorgon jumped between the world and the Upside-Down, and it's possible a Demogorgon is hunting in the area around the Creel house. Demogorgons hunt for pleasure as much as for food, seeming to enjoy terrorizing their prey, so it's not hard to imagine a scenario where one of those creatures killed a bunny and left its body behind. It would surely only be a matter of time before such a Demogorgon became interested in the house's occupants.

The Stranger Things season 4 teaser trailer shows the effects of the Upside-Down increasing at the Creel house, with a fully-fledged power cut. Again, referring to season 1, power fluctuations on this scale were seen when a creature tore through from the Upside-Down to the real world, and this kind of effect would really be expected if one had emerged in the house itself. It seems something from the Upside-Down was breaking through to Hawkins in the 1950s, and even terrorizing some of its citizens. It is curious, though, that all this appears to be focused on the Creel house - much more localized, meaning whatever is going on probably isn't related to a portal gate, but rather a much smaller weakness in reality.

Tragedy seems to have struck the Creel family, with the two children lying dead - and their father stood at the doorway, his posture stooped and sinister. Back in 2020, Netflix took to Twitter to reveal Victor Creel "is imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital for a gruesome murder in the 1950s." This suggests he is blamed for the deaths of his children, and perhaps his wife as well, but it's possible he was not truly responsible for his own actions as the Mind-Flayer has the power to possess human hosts. It may well have taken control of Victor, turning the family man into a murderer. This would explain why he wound up in a psychiatric hospital; naturally, back in the 1950s, nobody around Hawkins would have been able to understand his crimes.

Fast-forward to the 1980s, and it seems the Creel house has been abandoned for decades. The Hawkins gang breaks into it looking for clues, although the teaser trailer avoids any hints as to just what mystery has led them to the Creel house. Every season of Stranger Things draws inspiration from different horror films, and here it looks as though the show is drawing upon various haunted house tropes. Meanwhile, the Byers family and Eleven are absent, suggesting their adventures are elsewhere, at least during this time. As its cast grows, Stranger Things has shown a tendency to run multiple story arcs featuring smaller groups whose tales only intersect toward the end of the season. Most viewers had assumed Stranger Things would be leaving Hawkins with the Byers family and Eleven, or at least that the town would become less important, but the addition of the Creel house suggests that won't be the case.

The Stranger Things season 4 teaser trailer has some nice nods to previous seasons, with Dustin dropping a rucksack on the floor in the Creel house - one that features a number of Easter eggs. The Hawkins gang has always used radios to communicate, so it's no surprise one is being stored in the rucksack, but it looks a little newer and more expensive than the ones they used to use. Meanwhile, the Ghostbusters sticker evokes memories of Stranger Things season 2, when the kids dressed up as Ghostbusters for Halloween.

The Hawkins gang turns on the lights, which are still working but flicker ominously. This is a standard haunted house trope, and it may simply mean the power is cut, but it's also possible the Upside-Down is continuing to exert an influence over the Creel house. If that is indeed the case, these kids are much more likely to figure out what's going on than Victor Creel and his family were - although, again, it is very curious indeed to speculate what has drawn them to the Creel house in the first place.

It seems Dustin has become a Sherlock Holmes fan, because when asked what clues the gang should be looking for, he can't resist quoting (or, rather, slightly misquoting) The Hound of the Baskervilles. "The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes," he responds in a faux-English accent, before explaining the source of the quote (appropriately, he's wearing his baseball cap in the same manner Holmes is traditionally shown wearing his deerstalker). It's an amusing moment, not least because of the looks of blank incomprehension on the faces of Dustin's friends, but in the context of the Stranger Things season 4 teaser trailer it perhaps serves as a hint to look closely at every detail.

The Stranger Things season 4 teaser trailer builds to a climax, focusing on a clock that appears to be stored in an upstairs room in the Creel house. This clock has featured prominently in marketing for Stranger Things season 4, and the trailer establishes that it exists in both the real world and the Upside-Down, perhaps hinting this is somehow the source of the weakness in the fabric between the dimensions. It's impressive to see the clock still going decades after the house was abandoned, again suggesting a supernatural influence of some sort.

The final shot of the Stranger Things season 4 teaser trailer shows the clock breaking. The shot seems deeply symbolic, perhaps indicating time itself has broken in some way. There have been theories Stranger Things season 4 is a time travel story, with the concept of time travel becoming common in popular culture back in the '80s, the decade of Back to the Future and The Terminator. It's difficult to say how this would fit in with the broader themes of Stranger Things season 4, though, which already has an awful lot of ideas to balance out.

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September 27, 2021 at 02:46AM

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