'Stranger Things' Season 4 Will Lean into "Horror Movie Territory"

Get a first look at the show's new episodes before their May arrival

BY Calum SlingerlandPublished Mar 23, 2022

After a teaser trailer promised the "best Spring Break ever" for the return of Stranger Things, we now have another look at the show's fast-approaching fourth season.

Netflix has shared a set of first-look images from the upcoming season which you can find below. As previously revealed, season four of Stranger Things will be broken into two parts: Volume 1 will debut on May 27, while Volume 2 will follow on July 1.

In a forthcoming episode of podcast Present Company With Krista Smith [via Netflix], the Duffer brothers — Ross Duffer, specifically — share of the fourth season, "I think [fans will] be happy when they see it. It's very, very long, which is why it's taking us a very long time." 

He would add of the new episodes, "When we pitched it to Netflix all those years ago, we pitched it as the kids are...The Goonies in E.T. ... That's their storyline. And the adults are in Jaws and Close Encounters and then the teens are in Nightmare on Elm Street or Halloween. But, this year, we don't have the kids. We can't do The Goonies anymore. And so, suddenly, we're leaning much harder into that horror movie territory that we love. It was fun to make that change."

Revisit the Stranger Things 4 trailer and episode titles here.






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