Netflix has dropped the trailer for the Stranger Things Season 5 finale. Vecna’s and Eleven are in for the fight of their lives.

Titled “The Rightside Up,” the finale is the eighth episode in the show’s fifth and final season. Netflix released the first four episodes of Season 5 on Thanksgiving Day as “Stranger Things 5: Volume 1″ and then the subsequent three episodes on Christmas as “Volume 2.”

Volume 2 ended with Episode 7, where Max (Sadie Sink), successfully brought back to consciousness, reveals archvillain Vecna’s plan to merge the world with a parallel dimension on the other side of the Upside Down, dubbed the Abyss. The plan is to go there, rescue Vecna’s kidnapped children and then blow the whole thing to smithereens¹.

In the final scene, Vecna— still disguised as the human Henry Creel—has his brainwashed victims join hands in a spellbinding séance as they are transported to the Abyss.

Stranger Things is one of Netflix’s most popular shows of all time, and it recently surpassed 1.2 billion total views.

The finale has a runtime of two hours and five minutes and will be the franchise’s first big-screen outing, playing in more than 500 theaters across the United States and Canada. The first screenings will begin on New Year’s Eve at 5 p.m P.T., coinciding with the episode’s release on Netflix. It will play in theaters through Jan. 1.

Matt and Ross Duffer created Stranger Things nearly a decade ago, and Netflix released the first season in July 2016. The series has also spawned a stageplay, “Stranger Things: First Shadow,” which premiered on London’s West End in 2023 and is currently playing on Broadway.

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1. If anybody knows what a ‘smithereen’ is, please let us know in the comments. -ed ↩︎