And, finally, this is the episode where Will’s body is found in the quarry. They start with crushing cans, but soon escalate to them trying to get Elle to hurt other living things. In flashback, we see Eleven back at the lab with her “Papa,” being forced to use her powers in experiments. It’s not just the present day stuff that’s scary, either. While lights blinking aren’t inherently terrifying, knowing what it means for Will and what Holly sees come out of the wall definitely adds to this episode’s creepy factor. Later, we follow Holly Wheeler down a creepy hallway thanks to Joyce’s Christmas lights obsession. And it’s, well, "terrifying" is putting it mildly.
We get our first hands-on experience as we watch Barb try and fail to escape the Upside Down. The events of Stranger Things Season 1, Episode 3, “Holly, Jolly” are some of the scariest of the entire series. It built the Upside Down into the nightmare-inducing alternate universe it truly is. Just trying to have some fun and that’s what Netflix seemed to respond to.”Ĭameron’s work can be found on his Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok accounts.In some respects, Stranger Things Season 1 is the scariest of them all. “I wasn’t really trying to make a career. “They just really like the idea that it was just dad working at home during the pandemic, off work, and just trying to keep busy and create some smiles…” he said. Although they found him through his Schitt’s Creek work, Netflix were also interested in Cameron as a person, he said. He said they were open to his suggestions and made sure he was comfortable. This is Cameron’s “first paid gig” as an artist and his first time having to sign a “big, long contract” related to his art.
“So I just watched the series over again and just let my inspiration take me where it would.” “They just told me the characters that they wanted, they gave me a couple little directions, but for the most part just let me take the scenes and interpret it in my own way…” he said.
“I’m an ‘80s kid myself so really enjoyed having that be my first project for them.”Īside from his usual figurines and toy sets, this time Cameron repurposed an action figure from the movie Alien as the monster from Season 1 and used Lite-Brite pegs to simulate Christmas lights in one of the show’s “iconic scenes.”
“Not only do I love the show but it’s all this ’80s nostalgia: ’80s actors and toys and movies from the ’80s and the music is ’80s,” he said. and The Goonies, is “the perfect first project” for him. “And so within just over a year to have Netflix knocking on my door and saying they want to work with me, I’m still trying to wrap my head around it.”Ĭameron said taking on Stranger Things, a program in the mould of ’80s movies like E.T. It was only a year and a half ago that I really started even considering myself an artist,” he said. Cameron caught the streaming service’s attention with his vintage toy recreation of Schitt’s Creek scenes, which have been popular on social media. man to play with his toys.Įarlier this month, Netflix shared on its social media channels scenes from its program Stranger Things recreated by Nanaimo’s Todd Cameron using vintage toys.