Netflix debuted a new teaser trailer for Stranger Things season 4 as part of its Tudum event on Saturday. It opened on a family going into an old-timey house, but in classic Stranger Things fashion, things quickly got spooky and, well, strange.
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Previous teasers hinted at the world growing beyond Hawkins, Indiana, and confirmed one big theory regarding Officer Jim Hopper (David Harbour). The new clip gives us a glimpse of what’s happened to the rest of the cast back in Hawkins since the end of the third season. More specifically, the teaser showed off the Creel house, a terrifying haunted house that the Hawkins gang have to investigate during the season. Like any good haunted house it seems that this one has a dark past and a very creepy clock.
The third season of Stranger Things ended with Hopper sacrificing himself by walking into the Upside Down, but a post-credit tease set in Soviet Russia hinted that he was still alive, just in enemy hands. The first footage of the upcoming season — released all the way back in February 2020 — confirmed that he survived, though he’s probably not in particularly good condition.
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The fourth season has been a long time coming. Stranger Things’ third season debuted more than two years ago, on July 4th, 2019, so fans have been waiting for quite a while to see what happens next in Netflix’s hit series. (Season 3 was quite popular — just four days after it launched, Netflix said that 18.2 million accounts had watched the whole season.)
The company has already shared a few very fleeting hints about what to expect in season 4, though. In February 2020, a teaser revealed that a fan-favorite character would be returning. A teaser from May appeared to show a brief glimpse of Eleven’s past. And an action-packed 30-second teaser shared in August provided a lot of brief flashes of the new season and gave a non-specific 2022 release window.
Stranger Things season 4 is set to premiere in 2022.