The Clash, Toto, and Echo and the Bunnymen all feature on the nostalgic Stranger Things soundtrack. But if director and executive producer Shawn Levy had to describe the juggernaut sci-fi show’s season-four plot with just one song title from the ’80s, it would be a Duran Duran classic. “I’m going to go with a shocker, perhaps,†Levy said at season premiere. “‘Hungry Like the Wolf,’ in regards to the voracious, evil appetites of our villain.â€
“When you watch the full season, you’re going to go, Damn, Shawn gave me the hint ‘Hungry Like the Wolf.’ I thought it was because he used that song in his movie Big Fat Liar,†Levy joked. “But, no, it actually applies to the villain plot.†The show’s latest big bad — a foreboding, corpselike, Freddy Krueger–esque monster named Vecna after one of the most powerful undead villains in the Dungeons & Dragons universe — makes several appearances in the season-four trailer. At one point, the creature breathes out that the Stranger crew’s “suffering is almost at an end,†and at another he announces that someone has “broken everything.â€
Speaking of that needle drop, though, I’d like to see a Stranger Things monster as terrifying as Paul Giamatti cosplaying as Veruca Salt.