The stars of “Stranger Things” often hype up the latest season of the series by proclaiming it the “darkest” and/or “scariest” to date in interviews with the press, and Finn Wolfhard is well aware that such things have become common and downright repetitive at this point. But that’s not stopping him from making sure you know Season 4 is indeed going to be a dark one.
Recently speaking with CBC Listen, brought to our attention by Complex this week, Wolfhard teased that the upcoming new season of the show yet again amps up all possible stakes.
“Every season it gets darker. Really, I will say with Season 3 I was like, this is the darkest season that there’ll ever be, like the exploding rats and everything. But really, Season 4 so far, it’s the darkest season there’s ever been,” Wolfhard explains. “Every year, it gets amped up. Every year it gets funnier and darker and sadder, and everything. Every year, they amp it up.”
Co-star Gaten Matarazzo had similarly told US Weekly, “I think most would probably say it’s the scariest [season] out of the previous three, which I love because it’s very fun to film.”
What we know of Season 4 thus far is that Hopper is still alive, “imprisoned far from home in the snowy wasteland of Kamchatka, where he will face dangers both human…and other.”
“Meanwhile, back in the states, a new horror is beginning to surface, something long buried, something that connects everything….”
“Season 4 is shaping up to be the biggest and most frightening season yet, and we cannot wait for everyone to see more,” the Duffer Brothers had said back in February of last year.
The season’s cast includes Robert Englund, who will play Victor Creel, a disturbed man who is imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital for a gruesome murder in the 1950s.