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Netflix ’s video - game horrorChoose or Dieprovides a Robert Englund voice cameo , beatingStranger Thingson its cast whoremaster . Choose or Dieis director Toby Meakins ' feature - length introduction and stars Iola Evans in her first movie role as the final - lady friend lead Kayla . focus on around a text - based retro ' 80s computer plot called CURS > R , Choose or Diepays homage to the era ’s horror genre in many direction . Robert Englund serves as one such homage , as he was made celebrated for his role as the fabled pipe dream - haunt killer spirit Freddy Krueger inANightmare on Elm Street . InStranger Things , Englund will playthe reprehensible psychiatric infirmary inpatient with a homicidal past , Victor Creel .
CURS > R is a survival revulsion game in which players are forced to make choices that are deadly for the people around them . Helping Kayla is her love interest , the computer - programming friend Isaac who is play by one ofChoose or Die ’s more well - known actors , Asa Butterfield . Kayla discovers CURS > R in a pile of clearance items at Isaac ’s flat and calls a number on its packaging for instrumentalist to win a $ 125,000 cash prize . The number instigate a Robert Englund voice message , congratulate the histrion for bring in the cash plunder and asking for a four - digit peg . While Kayla is unaware of his implication , Isaac excitedly oppose to Robert Englund ’s cameo inChoose or Diethrough a Freddy Krueger impression . Choose or Dieplays the same spokesperson substance later when Kayla and Isaac receive themselves at the position where CURS > R was program .
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Choose or Diereleases an Englund cameo beforeStranger Things , thereby get the show in that regard . However , Robert Englund’sChoose or Dievoice cameo significance also beatsStranger Thingsby utilizing his ' 80 fabled position more like a shot . While his nefarious Victor Creel roleconnects to aStranger Thingsseason 4 locationand will service a more important part in the story , Stranger Thingswill likely be less effective with referencing his horror significance . Meanwhile , hisChoose or Dierole use him as a mention with a more thematic connection that creates its own plot element . CURS > R ’s ancient swearword in its computer programming invades its player ' aliveness and kills the people around them , therefore hold it similarities to Freddy Krueger , who kills his victims by invading their dreaming . choose to have Englund bet a fictionalized version of himself strengthen the connexion even further .
Englund approachedStranger Things’creators and ask them to give him a part in season 4 . Casting him in the show , then , is more deliberate than it may seem . However , it would be hard to blame someone for thinking that his ' 80s iconography alone put him on the show , asStranger Things’use of 1980s actorscan sometimes seem more like a nostalgia tactic than anything else . That say , Englund’sChoose or Diecameo is unapologetically nostalgia - bait , yet by being upfront about this , the cameo in this lawsuit becomes more effective . BecauseChoose or Dieused its Englund cameo purposefully for nostalgia , it can get out with this .
Still , while Englund being inStranger Thingsholds some ' eighty referential significance , his character will be more purposeful to the story than his office inChoose or decease . Therefore , Stranger Thingsseason 4 will be use him more as an actor than an ikon . Being Freddy Krueger cemented Englund as a repulsion moving-picture show fable thatChoose or Dieeffectively references , but to see him in a part that goes beyond the nightmare killer will be refreshing to see .
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