Running Up That Hill Scene Behind The Scenes

Max undoubtedly went through Hell when she got sucked into Vecna’s Mind Lair, but what exactly was it like for Sadie Sink to film this terrifying, iconic scene? We’ll be spilling all the tea on the special effects that went into it, the beautiful set that was mostly created by the art department, and of course, why the Duffer Brothers chose Running Up That Hill to be Max’s escape song. In Stranger Things, the cast and crew do a great job of keeping us on the edge of our seats. There’s a ton of blood, sweat, and tears that go into giving us the verisimilitude we desire when watching a TV show, but would you believe how much glycerin and muddy, bloody water went into creating this scene alone? We’ve got a lot of thanks to give Sadie’s stunt double for taking some intense wipeouts and being mounted up onto a pillar after being dragged by a rope. We’ll also be talking in detail about what was real in that scene, and what was not even there. You’d be surprised at how much brilliant acting and reacting Sadie had to do when it came to imaginary obstacles and gore. Stranger Things 4 was filled with beautiful, emotional, and straight-up terrifying moments, so stick with us so we can take you behind the scenes of every step involved in the making one of the show’s most iconic scenes.


Chapters:

00:00 Intro
00:38 The Effects
02:10 The Set
03:55 Sadie’s Performance
04:51 Outro

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Written by: Ace Louzon
Narrated by: Kydra Ryan
Edited by: Olena L

[rajgogoi]

It’s an Emmy performance from Sadie. Would be surprised if she isn’t nominated for this.

[trinaq]

The best scene in the show to date, and Sadie gave a brilliant performance.

[xkellyxx]

Every single actor/actress in this show have serious talent. This is one of the best shows I have ever seen. It’s VERY HARD for a show to hold my interest and I have rewatched this whole series multiple times.

[emsfz]

I will never get over how amazing the vecna and Max scenes are

[atelimakaveli]

This scene particularly made me very emotional. Seeing Max run for her life, I feel like at some point we are all running for
our lives and pulling ourselves out of a dark place. Then to play the instrumental cover of the song and seeing how Steve, Lucas, and Dustin all huddle over her. Such a great way to end the scene!!

[brittanywalko]

Her and Eddie’s guitar performance were the best

[melissaa]

She's such a good actress. This scene makes me cry every time I see it.

[ellaic]

All I can say is that Sadie did a great job, she did her acting so well.

[simonaginkuviene]

That's why stranger things so impressive just look at the details they put it in and a lot of work. Every season was worth of waiting, because they want to make every season so memorable.

[noeroa]

This sequence will go down in pop culture history as one of the best and most iconic scenes to have ever appeared in a TV series.

[lordvenjix]

Stranger Things 4 comes to a close with a (mostly) terrific, visually spectacular Volume 2 that'll leave fans waiting breathlessly for its fifth and final season in the future.

[TheMultiMom]

This song literally made me cry. I honestly did not think she was going to make it. I said "No, this show isn't that kind, she's not gonna make it!" and the tears welled up.

[kaikouchickamatsu]

Seeing how things happened before editing and how she portrayed what was happening to her, she did a pretty freaking awsome job. Everyone did. That art department did fantastic.

[Internetvideos]

The insane amount of effort the whole Stranger things team and has put in is just incredible.

[profscarlett]

All of these young actors delivered outstanding performances.

[Hatsumi_kazuno]

Sadie's scenes are just amazing as hell, she did a really good job, not only Sadie but all the actors have done their role really well and stranger things is literally the best and nothing can surpass this, and i wish i could work on this project this is just amazing

[lg_bonnie]

I loved this scene so much especially with the music it made it 10x better

[mndfckd]

Sadie is a the best actor amongst all the teens, she is just so convincing.

[p.b.hhannie]

This scene had me in tears actually, i got goosebumps as well, its so emotional, on top of that, i love the moment when all her memories with el, lucas, mike, dustin, .. rushing back, i can do nothing beyond clutching the edge of my pillow.And the best thing is the song, running up that hill may be the exclusive song for Max

[strangerblades]

That honestly looks really cool, this makes a lot of sense