Spiders, Body Armor, and Lube Touch-Ups: How Stranger Things Pulled Off Vecna’s Transformation

Warning: There are spoilers for season four of Stranger Things in the following article. Proceed at your own risk. To create the character of Vecna, Stranger Things’ humanoid nightmare monster who uses trauma like a scalpel and claims his victims with bone-snapping, exacting brutality, Jamie Campbell Bower first had to be cut up into dozens of little pieces. Or at least, a plaster cast of his body did. “We [made a cast of] Jamie’s body… just below the chin, down to the wrists, down to the ankles with him standing and holding supports,” Barrie Gower, special-characters-makeup-effects department head for the… Read Full Article