‘Stranger Things 5’ Will Be Like Watching “Eight Blockbuster Movies” Back-to-Back

The fifth and final season of “Stranger Things” is headed our way here in 2025, and series creators the Duffer Brothers have offered up some fresh “Stranger Things 5” teasers.

As reported by Entertainment Weekly, Matt and Ross Duffer are hyping the final hours of the hit Netflix series less as episodes and more as a series of “eight blockbuster movies.”

“We spent a full year filming this season. By the end, we had captured over 650 hours of footage,” Ross Duffer said at a Netflix event today. “So, needless to say, this is our biggest and most ambitious season yet. It’s like eight blockbuster movies. It’s pretty, pretty insane.”

“Season 5 will be big and epic,” Matt Duffer added, echoing Ross’s promise for the final season. “There’s no time for a ramp-up. It’s going to be intense from beginning to end.”

The scale of “Stranger Things 5″ is bigger than the previous four seasons, but the brothers also tease that the season will somewhat mark a return to the vibes of the first season. “It’s also going to feel familiar,” Ross notes. “This season is the biggest it’s ever been in scale, but everyone’s back together in Hawkins, interacting the same way they were in Season 1.”

David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Winona Ryder and Maya Hawke are back for “Stranger Things 5,” being joined by new faces including Terminator icon Linda Hamilton.

Set in the fall of 1987, one year after the events of Season 4, “Stranger Things 5” will consist of eight episodes: “The Crawl,” “The Vanishing of ____,” “The Turnbow Trap,” “Sorcerer,” “Shock Jock,” “Escape from Camazotz,” “The Bridge,” and “The Rightside Up.”

While “Stranger Things 5” is the final season of the main series, the Duffer Brothers have consistently promised that the show’s universe isn’t closing up for business anytime soon.

“There are more Stranger Things stories to tell and in the works,” they tease.

Check out a new promo poster that Netflix released this morning…