There are about to be some new nightmares in Hawkins, Indiana: “Stranger Things” has announced the actors who will be joining its cast for its fourth season, and they include horror legend Robert Englund, who is best known for playing Freddy Kreuger in the “Nightmare on Elm Street” film series. Englund will play a recurring role on the popular Netflix show as Victor Creel, a man who has been in a mental hospital since the 1950s for a gruesome murder.
The other new “Stranger Things” cast members are Jamie Campbell Bower (“Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald”), Eduardo Franco (“Booksmart”), Joseph Quinn (“Catherine the Great”), Tom Wlaschiha (“Game of Thrones”), Sherman Augustus (“Into the Badlands”), Mason Dye (“Bosch”), and Nikola Djuricko (“Genius”).
“Stranger Things” is inspired by the sci-fi and pop culture of the ’80s, so Englund follows in the very apropos footsteps of ’80s darlings Winona Ryder and Sean Austin in making a visit to the fictional Hawkins.
How ‘Stranger Things’ Got Made The Netflix show also released descriptions for the other new characters. Bower, who is joining as a series regular, will play Peter Ballard, an orderly at a psychiatric hospital who may be inspired to take a stand after witnessing medical malpractice. Quinn joins as Eddie Munson, an ’80s metalhead who runs the Hellfire Club, Hawkins High’s official Dungeons & Dragons club. According to the show, Eddie is “at the terrifying epicenter of this season’s mystery.”
“Stranger Things” was recently renewed for Season 4 and a teaser was released. Filming had begun at the beginning of 2020, with some scenes filmed in Lithuania, but had to be shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Production resumed in September and filming will begin again in December at Netflix’s newly expanded studios in Albuquerque (the show previously filmed a majority of its scenes in Atlanta). Season 4 will premiere in 2021, though a date has not been set.
“Stranger Things” has visited alternate dimensions, will hellish dreamscapes be next? We’ll have to see.