Stranger Things 2: Behind the sequel's big, bad 'shadow monster'

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Its not like others have gone through this.

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No one has ever gone through this before, explains Schnapp.

So [Wills] confused, hes scared, and hes trying to cope with everything.

Our big reference for [the demogorgon] season 1 was mostlyJaws, says Matt.

Its a shark and, the other dimension is the underwater.

So there has to be something more sentient and thats that big thing in the sky.

I think the difference is you dont really see how its all tied together until later, Ross says.

Will is the way through which were able to understand whats going on.

Inspiration for this new behemoth came from horror classics.

Says Matt, Theres an H.P.

Lovecraft sort of approach, this inter-dimensional being that is sort of beyond human comprehension.

We purposely dont want to go too much into what it is or what it wants.