The opening minutes of the newly released fifth season of Stranger Things transport viewers back to the very beginning of the Netflix smash series. A young, terrified Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) is hiding out in his makeshift fort in the Upside Down, having been kidnapped by evil forces. It’s been almost a decade since we’ve seen Will at this age with that signature bowl cut, but his bulging eyes instantly take us back to the terror he felt during his Season 1 abduction. (The sequence was filmed using a body double , with a digital version of Schnapp’s face superimposed via visual effects.) As he is forced to flee a Demogorgon, he runs through a dark forest, climbing a tree as red lightning flashes around him. Then, when he must leap to a different tree as the monster continues its cha

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