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thrift stores, and voila: the Byers are in sunny SoCal. Back in Hawkins however, Max's life has taken a decidedly darker turn. To create her new "neighborhood," the production took over a large swath of an existing trailer park outside Atlanta that had been cleared out by a tornado a few years before. ou can't make this stuff up. e brought in a dozen trailers of our own and brought the place back to grim reality. Max's trailer, one of my personal favorites this season, was finished, interior and exterior, on location, which allowed for great realism, much to the chagrin of the shooting crew, who didn't exactly love being trapped in a trailer park for days and nights on end. Across the street from Max lives Eddie Munson, local metal head dungeon master, and important new addition to the Stranger Things gang of misfits. Eddie's interior trailer was built in duplicate on stage to accommodate otherwise impossible interdimensional back-and-forth, allowing for one of the trippiest tricks we've ever pulled off with the interplay between its upside down/right side up versions. The Art Department explored the opposite end of the domestic architectural spectrum as well. The Creel house, our take on the classic "haunted house," lies quite literally at the dark heart of season four. We traveled near and far in search of the perfect location and ultimately found it in Rome, GA. The house, a Second Empire Victorian mansion with a mansard roof, had such a uniquely imposing air that we committed to traveling nearly two hours to shoot practical exteriors. On stage, we painstakingly recreated the intricate interior details of the three-story masterpiece down to the hand-carved bookcases and mantelpieces, ornate newel posts, and the beautifully hand-painted wall safe. We invented our own labyrinthine layout for the upper floor and attic to accommodate the extended explorations and climactic showdown that take place there. The house appears pristine in a series of s flashbacks, and then is seen dark and infected in the Upside Down, but it's true glory, and some of the best scenic work I've ever seen, is in its fully dilapidated, present- day look. It wasn't enough, though, to have the Creel House in the past, the present and the Upside Down. In keeping with the exponential expansion of our world characteristic of season four, we pushed it into full psychological abstraction, making it the exploded architectural framework of Vecna's mind lair, possibly the most fantastically horrific set in Stranger Things history, a testament to the formidable skill of our sculptors and a beautiful A. MAX RUNS BACK TO HER NEW TRAILER HOME. (ON LOCATION IN ATLANTA). PRODUCTION STILL. B. HAWKINS' POLICE RESPOND TO A CALL OUTSIDE EDDIE'S TRAILER. (ON LOCATION IN ATLANTA). PRODUCTION STILL. C. MAX LEAVES FAREWELL NOTES IN HER NEW LIVING ROOM. (ON LOCATION IN ATLANTA). PRODUCTION STILL. D. CHRISSY FEARS THE WORST IN EDDIE'S LIVING ROOM. (ON LOCATION IN ATLANTA). PRODUCTION STILL. A B C D