Creepy New STRANGER THINGS Concept Art Offers Alternate Version of Barb's Last Scene

Warning: spoilers ahead.

Another piece of concept art has surfaced for Stranger Things and this one features a version of Barb's demise that's different than what made the final cut. This vision of her death is even more jacked up than what we ended up seeing in the series. Check it out:

The art was created by Aaron Sims, and in an interview with ScreenCrush, he explained what the original plan for Barb's death was:

“Based on our original discussion with the Duffers on this design, we wanted to go really graphic with it to highlight the horrific aspects of Barb being eaten, and something then growing on top of her—thus, the ribs poking out of her stomach in the first shot.”

There's another piece of concept art that you can see below with a few different changes. For example, she's got a spider crawling out of her mouth. Sims explained why:

“In the script for that episode, there was specifically a description of a spider coming out of her mouth, which we incorporated into the design of that second shot.” 

So why didn't they go with these designs of Barb's death in the series? It was because she was too unrecognizable. Sims went on to say:

“It wasn’t an issue of it being too graphic, but rather, that the viewer needed to see something that was very recognizably dead.”

I think anyone paying attention while they were watching the show would have recognized who it was, but the Duffer Brothers wanted to be safe. The creators of the series previously talked about Barb and how there will be justice for her in the second season. You can read about that here.

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