Stranger Things season 4 is “scary” and “truly messed up”

Every season, Netflix’s Stranger Things seems to up the ante: the world expands, new monsters arrive, the stakes are raised, and so on. And with the fourth season on the way, things are only going to get crazier.

The end of season 3 felt almost as if it had a definitive ending. After Hopper’s apparent “death” (a teaser subsequently revealed him to be alive somehow), the Byers family — including Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) — decided to move away from Hawkins to get a fresh start elsewhere. But however far they move, it seems the past will continue to haunt them.

“We say it every year like, ‘This season’s scarier. This season’s scarier,’” star Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler) said during an appearance on The Matt Wilkinson Show. He’s not wrong — the show does tend to get scarier with each passing season. “This season is like truly messed up, and it’s going to freak people out a lot,” he added.

Wolfhard also hails show creators Matt and Ross Duffer for their ability to continuously reinvent the story in a way that keeps it fresh and engaging. “You know the Duffer Brothers are doing things that people haven’t seen before in the show, which is really refreshing because if the show has been going on for as long as it has, you want people to still care.

Amid concerns from fans that Mike won’t play a big role in the season given he hasn’t appeared in any of the teasers, Wolfhard cleared things up. “There’ll be stuff out soon where I’m in it eventually,” he said.

Stranger Things 4 will be “unexpected, romantic and exhilarating”

All that said, “scary” isn’t the only thing Stranger Things trucks in. Noah Schnapp, who plays Will Byers, told People that the new season will be “unexpected, romantic and exhilarating.”

"I was with a great group of people and I bonded with everyone a lot and I had a good time. I think this season is going to be the best one yet. It’s something to be excited about.Every season we have different storylines and different people that I get to work with. I think this season, it was the most unexpected. [There were] certain people I’d never worked with before. It just really opened my eyes and I had such a good time doing it."

“Romantic,” eh? Pairs well with terrifying.

Watch the newest teaser for Stranger Things season 4

The latest teaser for season 4 was released during Netflix’s recent ‘TUDUM‘ event, and features some of our group creeping around the old Creel House, which seems to have some kind of link t the Upside Down.

We don’t have a release date for Stranger Things season 4 yet. That said, we do know that the season premiere is titled “The Hellfire Club” and that it will air sometime in 2022.

In the meantime, Wolfhard will soon appear on the big screen in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, coming out November 18!

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