Here’s a spooky treat just before Halloween: a new trailer for Stranger Things 5, teasing our best look yet at the final season of Netflix’s mega-smash blockbuster series. And, as you’d expect, it looks suitably huge – bringing all-out war to the town of Hawkins, Indiana in the final fight against Vecna and the hordes of the Upside Down, with considerable peril for our human heroes. Gulp. Check out the trailer here:
It certainly looks like the lengthy wait post-Stranger Things 4 has been for good reason – this looks to be the biggest outing for the show yet (and that’s saying something, given the gargantuan scale of the previous run) as it reaches its endgame. We have soldiers flooding the streets of Hawkins battling against demogorgons; we have Lucas on a seeming rescue mission to bring the hospitalised Max to safety; we have Mike and Joyce leading kids through danger-packed streets as war breaks out; and we have Eleven displaying some of those souped-up Force-like powers too.
Not only that, but this trailer offers our best look yet at the promised ‘Vecna 2.0’, with a crawling-vine visual refresh for the humanoid villain – and, most alarmingly, it looks like the Upside Down still has its claws in poor old Will Byers, being summoned by Vecna to do some dark bidding. Can’t that kid catch a break?
Who will live? Will any fan favourites die? What’s the record selection like in the new WSQK radio station set? Answers to some of those questions will be provided when Stranger Things 5 starts streaming on Netflix from midnight on 26 November (into the 27th). The second volume will arrive at midnight on Christmas into Boxing Day; and the finale will drop as the fireworks pop on Christmas Eve night.
And, if you can’t get enough Stranger Things 5, be sure to pick up the new issue of Empire, on sale now – featuring insights from inside Stranger Things HQ with the Duffer brothers, and an all-new oral history with the cast. Order one online here.
