What Vecna’s Red Smoke Area Really Is (It’s Not The Upside Down)

However, not all victims can reach the red smoke area, as Max and Nancy had infiltrated his mind. This is why Chrissy, Fred, and Victor Creel’s possessions saw them transported into traumatic moments within their own minds, suggesting Max and Nancy had a significant power when being able to see the personal lair of Jamie Campbell Bower’s Vecna. Max and Nancy had discovered a backdoor to Vecna’s mental world that could allow them to escape their possessions, with the answer to defeating Stranger Things season 4’s villain perhaps being in his own traumatic connection to Creel House.
As Dustin mentions, Vecna’s red smoke area is comparable to Freddy Krueger’s boiler room in A Nightmare on Elm Street’s dream world, which served as Freddy’s lair both in life and death. Like Vecna, Freddy became stronger through the memories of trauma and emotions of his victims, with Freddy’s victims also becoming part of him in the dream world. The boiler room in the dream world isn’t tangible and simply serves as a place for Freddy to trap and murder his victims, similar to the powerful Henry Creel’s mental red smoke area in Stranger Things season 4. Just as the only escape from Freddy’s dream world is to be woken up or injured by a non-sleeping person, Vecna’s possessed victims in the red smoke area can only escape through their favorite song blasted into their ears and the happy memories of those they love.

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Unlike the Upside Down, which may be impossible to destroy since the full truth of its history is unknown, Vecna’s red smoke area will be eliminated alongside Henry Creel/Number One, as it only exists within his own mind. Since the physical body of Vecna still resides in the Upside Down’s version of Creel House, it seems the reason why the home’s pieces float in the red smoke world is that this location is a major source of the Stranger Things season 4 villain’s power. If the characters destroy Vecna’s connection to Creel House and, of course, the villain himself, his mental red smoke area would cease to exist.

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