Stranger Things season 4

A big bad villain has arrived in the Stranger Things season 4 trailer — or is it two big bads?

In fact, it looks like the first (and possibly last) of the creepy forces from the The Upside Down that will give the kids and their trusted elders a true test. This would all tie together for a view of seasons 4 and 5 as a two-parter if one of these monsters is to be stopped in each season. While there's no schedule for when we'll get that season, this Stranger Things season 4 trailer gives us a lot of reason to believe this and next season are going to be more tightly connected than before. In this most vulnerable time, a new and horrifying supernatural threat surfaces, presenting a gruesome mystery that, if solved, might finally put an end to the horrors of the Upside Down." The lab at the end of the season 3 finale is in shatters, and a menacing voice growled "you broke everything, your suffering is almost at an end." And that Eleven is crucial for "winning this war."

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Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Stranger Things season four will be split into two parts on Netflix: Volume 1 is out on 27 May and Volume 2 starts streaming on 1 July. The new season will be split into two parts: Volume 1 is out on 27 May; Volume 2 starts streaming on Netflix on 1 July.

The Duffer Brothers have provided some details regarding the monstrous new villain, with rumors suggesting it could have a shocking link to Eleven.

The Journey-infused trailer will get you hyped for season 4 of the hit Netflix series about 1980s kids struggling with the supernatural.

One of the teasers showcased the Creel House, complete with clock. On Tuesday, a trailer for the new season dropped. Part 1 of that season comes to Netflix on May 27, with the second half arriving July 1.

Sherman Augustus teased his role as Lt. Colonel Sullivan in Stranger Things season four, describing the character as a man with many "layers."

"The scale is humongous," he teased. The 63-year-old actor also enjoyed being transported back to the '80s in the series, noting that it was "surreal" to recreate some of the films he grew up watching. "You'll say something to somebody like when it's coming out, and you get a phone call: ‘Don't say that!'"

Stranger Things' season 4 trailer has arrived and it features a whole load of shredding and gnarly monsters.

In this most vulnerable time, a new and horrifying supernatural threat surfaces, presenting a gruesome mystery that, if solved, might finally put an end to the horrors of the Upside Down." What's more, this season looks like it's going to be riddled with monsters. We NEED to know.

Our heroes in Hawkins are worlds apart and the Stranger Things season 4 trailer shows how they'll come back together.

Considered one of the most iconic villains in the game, Vecna was a powerful wizard who became a lich (undead creature). Through many editions of D&D continuity Vecna has appeared as a fearsome foe, even ascending to Godhood at one point. What would a Stranger Things trailer be without our old friend, the Demogorgon? After serving as the big bad in season 1, this flower-headed freak became more of a miniboss in season 2 and 3. It now says “William Hargrove” instead of “Billy Hargrove.” (Can anyone remember a single time Billy was referred to as “William” on this show?) Could the alternate tombstone mean that we’re actually getting a glimpse into a parallel universe, one where Max suddenly has powers? But perhaps he was subjected to unimaginable Lovecraftian horrors and it was really those horrors that killed the Creels in the first place. In the context of season 4, it would appear that bored Russian soldiers make their Siberian prisoners battle the (or “a”) Demogorgon for their own amusement. Getting an American citizen from deep in the Siberian tundra to the Midwestern USA at the height of the Cold War has to be one hell of a logistical challenge. Perhaps now is a good time to mention the song in this trailer is “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” by Journey. That’s fitting given the scattered nature of the show’s characters going into the season. At one point, the clock is embedded into the wall of a hallway (likely in Hawkins High School) and appears to be bursting forth from the Upside Down itself. Eventually the Creel family patriarch Victor (played by Robert Englund) lost his mind and murdered his whole family in cold blood. The narration in this trailer makes it clear that the shadowy powers-that-be in the U.S. need help from the whole Hawkins team, Hopper included, to confront a new threat. First introduced as a devastatingly handsome bully in season 2, Billy became a full-on supervillain in season 3 when the Mind Flayer took over his body. The trailer opens with a helpful reminder of how season 3 ended.

Notably, Winona Ryder's Joyce Byers is back and making a very worried phone call; Millie Bobby Brown's Eleven looks happy skating in one image and then, in ...

For more, check out the best Netflix shows available to stream right now. He added that the Byers have left Hawkins, instead heading to California. " Click through the gallery below for all the images from the new season.

It's been almost three years since the irrepressible gang of Stranger Things kids concluded their last adventure with the Battle of the Starcourt Mall, ...

Who is this new architect of all the Upside Down chaos? The group are all now in high school, so at least the age factor hasn’t becoming glaring just yet. It’s been almost three years since the irrepressible gang of Stranger Things kids concluded their last adventure with the Battle of the Starcourt Mall, and you’d be forgiven for having forgotten some of the hazier details of the show’s history, given that it originally premiered all the way back in 2016.

The Cold War has always been an undercurrent of Stranger Things. In Season 3 in particular, the 80s-era tensions between Russia and the United States are ...

This is Stranger Things’ Infinity War, where the action — and the cast — has ballooned to massive proportions. When we last left the characters of Stranger Things, they were scattered to the wind. Here’s everything you need to know about the new trailer, and what it means as the show gears up for its last season.

Stranger Things' first season 4 trailer reveals how life is about to change for Eleven, Joyce, and Hopper in Volume 1 of the next chapter.

While Stranger Things has explored the larger world outside of Hawkins, Indiana, in the past, the show’s fourth season is set to switch things up by splitting its story across a handful of disparate, important locations. Though the story will presumably return to the Upside Down and catch up with Jim Hopper in Russia, Stranger Things’ first season four trailer makes clear that a significant part of its next chapter will unfold in California, where Joyce and the rest of the Byers family have moved. Even though we’ve seen a few teasers of Stranger Things’ upcoming fourth season, none of them really let on just how much larger and epic in scope this next chapter seems like it’s going to be.

It's been nearly three long years since we last saw Eleven, Mike, Lucas, Dustin, Steve, Will, Hopper, Nancy, Jonathan, Joyce, and any Stranger Things kids ...

Season four of Stranger Things will be split into two halves, with the first half premiering on Netflix on May 27. And he’s determined to start a war in Hawkins. Eleven is pulled back into the “eye of the storm” along with everyone else. Meanwhile, Max (Sadie Sink) is mourning her brother’s death, and at one point is levitating in the trailer.

Stranger Things trailer for season 4 brings back Millie Bobby Brown, the rest of the cast for a David Harbour rescue mission. Stranger Things season 4 will ...

Meanwhile, Max’s (Sadie Sink) brother Billy (Dacre Montgomery) gets possessed by a creature from the Upside Down who attempted to eat most of Hawkins’ residents, but was ultimately defeated by the gang. After all the action goes down, The Byers family, along with Eleven, move to a new town, separating the main cast of the series and setting up for this new season to jump between lots of different places to tell the story. The trailer also makes it clear that this season is going for a more classic horror-movie vibe, complete with an eerie haunted house the kids will have to explore.

Netflix has released the trailer for 'Stranger Things' Season 4, picking up with Eleven and her Hawkins friends.

Hopper (David Harbour) is revealed to be alive, but not doing very well as he’s imprisoned in Russia and forced to fight a Demogorgon with a ragtag group of soldiers. The smash-hit Netflix series, which follows the citizens of Hawkins, Ind., as they fight against supernatural phenomena, last dropped new episodes in 2019. The Duffers executive produce along with Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, Cindy Holland, Brian Wright, Matt Thunell, Karl Gajdusek and Iain Paterson. Over the past year, Netflix has released various teasers for the fourth season. They also confirmed that the series has been renewed for a fifth season, which will be its last. Your friends in Hawkins are very much in the eye of a storm,” Eleven is warned.

A post-credits scene revealed a mysterious “American” locked up in a Siberian prison cell where Soviets experimented on Demogorgons. Later, Netflix released ...

Looking for more details on Stranger Things Season 4? Thanks to the first official Stranger Things Season 4 trailer, we finally know the answer. We still don’t know how Hopper survived the Upside Down or why he ended up in Russia, but those details will likely be revealed in Stranger Things Season 4.

Steve Harrington (Joe Keery), Robin Buckley (Maya Hawke), Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink) and Dustin try to navigate high school life.

Yet, that is impossible, as Hawkins Laboratory executive Sam Owens (Paul Reiser) arrives and warns the young wunderkind that "a war is coming," and her friends in Hawkins are right in the middle of it. "It's also the beginning of the end," they wrote in a letter that revealed season four would drop in two parts before a future fifth and final season. And while we've had to wait three whole years for a peek at what's to come, it seems we won't be feeling upside down once volume one of the new season drops on May 27.

In addition, Shawn Levy will also return to the director's chair this season. Levy directed episodes 403 and 404. Like The Duffer Brothers, this should come as ...

Given that they are directing the final two episodes of the season once again, fans are sure to be in for a real genre treat. Lastly, the new director for the season is Nimród Antal who will be directing episodes 405 and 406. Like The Duffer Brothers, this should come as no surprise as the Stranger Things producer has directed six episodes of the series so far.