Victor Creel

2022 - 5 - 28

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Horror icon Robert Englund—best known as Freddy Kreuger—joins the 'Stranger Things' for season 4 as Victor Creel.

With Wes Craven's 1984 horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street, Englund began playing one of the most iconic villains in the horror genre: Freddy Kreuger. Freddy is one of the most popular Halloween costumes year-in and year-out for good reason, and that reason is that he's absolutely terrifying. In this case, we got to see Englund as more of a Dr. Loomis (from the Halloween films) than Freddy himself. “The fact that he came to us in a season that’s so deeply inspired by the Nightmare series and by his performance especially in those movies, it felt like fate,” Matt Duffer said. Englund only appears in one single episode of Stranger Things Season 4, but it's a vital role that is referenced both before and after his actual appearance. Ahhh! Yeah, that was us when we saw how ol' Victor looked in the image above when he was introduced in Episode 4 of Stranger Things Season 4. The people behind Stranger Things have never been shy about how much they like paying tribute to two things: the horror genre and the 1980s.

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For the bulk of Stranger Things 4, the Hawkins gang is trying their damndest to figure out a totally new mystery revolving around the demonic murderer, ...

Spoiler alert: The rest of this post contains major spoilers from Stranger Things 4 Episode 7, the final episode in Vol. 1. In her fight against him, Eleven was able to unlock her full power for the first time, opening up a gate to the Upside Down and sending him through it. While Nancy and Robin visited Victor in the asylum where he was imprisoned, Victor confirmed Nancy and Robin’s suspicions that Vecna was the true murderer behind his family members’ demises. Through her memory training, Eleven was able to unlock her repressed memory of helping One escape Brenner’s control, only to realize his evil intentions. Here’s what you need to know about Victor Creel in Stranger Things 4, because he really is central to the mystery. Through research, Nancy and Robin learned Victor was charged with murdering his family in gruesome, ritualistic ways shortly after moving to their new home in Hawkins back in 1959.

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Despite playing an important role in the season when it comes to understanding what and who Vecna is, Englund's Victor Creel only appears in one episode. After being accused of their deaths, Victor is taken to Pennhurst psychiatric hospital and put in a cell. Victor tries to escape the house with his kids but is soon caught in a trance. In his dream-like state, he's transported back to the horrors of the war. What does he have to do with Vecna? What happened to his eyes? Both his character and his former house play a huge part in the Hawkins storyline.

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The local Hawkins legend has it that Victor Creel murdered his family in cold blood in the late 1950s or early 1960s. After some questioning after the ...

On their last night together, the mother is raised to the ceiling and killed in the same fashion as the victims in present-day Hawkins. Victor is then put in a trance and revisits when he accidentally ordered a bombing of a private home in the Allied country of France. That is where he saw a baby burning in the bassinet. When Robin and Nancy do some archival research at the local library, they being to wonder if Victor Creel killed his family at all. So, he sneaks a razor into his cell and cuts them out. A mansion in Hawkins. They soon feel the home must be cursed or haunted because weird things begin to happen. The local Hawkins legend has it that Victor Creel murdered his family in cold blood in the late 1950s or early 1960s. They bought a forever home with a family inheritance.

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Stranger Things season 4 stars actor Robert Englund in a cameo and his character Victor Creel has a horrifying backstory.

As Victor is trapped in his horrific memories, viewers learn that while serving in the war, he thought German soldiers were hiding inside a home. Victor tries to burst the front door open, but the monster (Vecna) traps him in a dreamscape. Finally, one evening, the demon attacks, killing his wife, and Victor is charged with murder.

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One of the most important—and most anticipated—new characters is Victor Creel, played by the horror icon himself Robert Englund. In Volume One, we meet him and ...

Or maybe it’s better that he doesn’t know that his son is the pure evil that killed his wife and daughter. And will Victor Creel get out of Pennhurst Asylum or will he die? So now we know that Vecna, One, and Henry Creel are the same entity. This perfectly explains why Vecna’s Upside Down spot is the Creel House. It is the place where he discovered his “purpose” and he can hang out there with his deadly spiders and gain strength from taking lives. The crew heads into the abandoned and dilapidated Creel House to gather some clues. But Henry Creel did not die in the hospital like Victor believes. Victor said he could feel the demon hiding in his home and cursing the town. After speaking with Victor, Nancy and Robin reunite with Steve, Max, Lucas, and Dustin. They eventually piece together that there must be a connection with Vecna and the Creel House. Of course, we know this house is in Hawkins so they can easily investigate. But we can safely assume that the final episodes will still mention and include him in some way, especially after big revelations about his family. We finally have some definitive answers about the Creel family, why Victor is in Pennhurst Asylum, and how the Creel House fits into all of this Vecna terror. He notes that Chrissy was killed in a similar way by someone who must be “pure evil.” Wayne believes that Victor Creel broke out of Pennhurst Asylum much like Michael Myers did in Halloween. With that expansion comes a host of new characters and separate storylines that will all converge in some way.

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To save his kids, he tries to ram the front door open, but when it opens, he falls into a dreamscape of Vecna’s making. Victor, his wife, son, and daughter move into an idyllic mansion in Hawkins, where everything is like “a fairy tale” for the first month. By the end of his story, Victor whimpers in despair about how the “angel” that saved him didn’t let him join his family in death. Through Victor’s narration, Stranger Things 4 unspools a sequence of flashbacks that reveal who Victor is and what happened back at Creel House back in 1959. But now, the two beloved franchises cross over in a new, unexpected fashion, with Freddy Krueger himself appearing in Stranger Things 4. Nightmare on Elm Street and Stranger Things have quite a few things in common.