‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 Teased By Creators Matt & Ross Duffer, Director-EP Shawn Levy: “A Culmination” Of All That’s Come Before

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Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer have expanded on what fans can expect from the fifth and final season of their ’80s-set Netflix phenomenon.

During a Sunday night FYC panel at the streamer’s Tudum Theater in Los Angeles, the twin filmmakers were asked if they have new ’80s pop culture influences in mind that will shape the final season, in the way A Nightmare on Elm Street and its villain Freddy Kreuger shaped Season 4.  “[Season] 5, the way we see it, is kind of a culmination of all the seasons, so it’s sort of got a little bit from each,” Ross Duffer told a packed house. “Whereas before each season was so distinctly, you know… 3 is our big summer blockbuster season with big monsters, and 4 was the psychological horror, I think that what we’re trying to do is go back to the beginning a little bit, in sort of the tone of 1. “But also scale-wise, it’s more aligned with what 4 is,” he added. “So, hopefully, it’s got a little bit of everything.” A primary difference in Season 5 compared to past efforts, per Matt Duffer, is that the danger facing our teen heroes and the world as they know it is now “all kind of out in the open” — whereas most adults had, in the past, been oblivious to evil forces at work.

Stranger Things is a sci-fi drama that follows a group of kids from Hawkins, Indiana, as they battle supernatural forces connected to an alternate reality known as The Upside Down.

The show’s latest season, released in two volumes over the summer, picks up months after the Battle of Starcourt, which brought terror and destruction to Hawkins.