(Paris) Fans have been stamping for three years, they will be served: the hit fantasy series Stranger Things returns to Netflix on Friday for an explosive fourth and penultimate season, longer and above all “scarier”, assured its actors Noah Schnapp and Priah Ferguson to AFP.
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Postponed due to the pandemic, seven episodes from approximately 1:10 a.m. to 1:40 a.m. will be broadcast on the streamingbefore a second part on 1er July, two episodes of 1h25 and 2h30.
We find the gang of friends from the fictional town of Hawkins in 1986, six months after the battle of Starcourt Mall, facing a new supernatural threat.
“It’s stronger, more frightening”, promises the young Noah Schnapp, 17, who came to Paris this week with Priah Ferguson, 15, on the occasion of a preview screening in front of 500 fans at the circus of ‘Winter.
“The public must be prepared for something frightening and bloody, so much so that it is sometimes necessary to look away,” he insisted to AFP.
In fact, where the first season of this series-homage to the 1980s was rather reminiscent The Gooniesan adventure film for children, the fourth leans more towards The claws of the night by horror master Wes Craven.
Robert Englund, the interpreter of Freddy Krueger, who kills his victims in their nightmares, also makes an appearance there.
Adopted by Joyce (Winona Ryder) after the supposed death of Hopper (David Harbour), Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) followed Will (Noah Schnapp) and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) to California, where she discovers the harsh life of a high school student without his powers, far from Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Max (Sadie Sink), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and his hilarious little sister Erica (Priah Ferguson), remained in Indiana.
“In real life too, as you grow up, the world becomes darker”, commented Priah Ferguson to explain this turn taken by the series, more adult like its cast and its fans, “who grew up at the same time that she has since 2016.
They will have to learn to live without it at the end of the fifth season, its creators, the brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, having already warned that it would be the last.
“It’s starting to look like the beginning of the end,” lamented Priah Ferguson.
Faced with an unprecedented drop in its number of subscribers, Netflix has pulled out all the stops to promote one of its most popular works, including a dedicated “festival” in Paris. On the menu, roller-disco, arcade games or even an excursion to the “upside down world”, where 10,000 fans are expected from 26 to 29 May.