Picking up nine months after the events of Season 3 , our young heroes take on their two biggest threats to date - terrifying villain Vecna and late adolescence.
Creators Matt and Ross Duffer continue to take us on a dark path amid a pounding eighties soundtrack and do a great job maintaining our interest in characters we could easily have been getting sick of by now.
It’s clear A Nightmare on Elm Street was a huge inspiration for this fourth season; there are nightmarish visions complete with a nursery rhyme-esque score, claw and tentacle-spouting antagonists, one of the cast newbies is called Fred and Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund, pops up in an important, edgy cameo.
