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

“Season 5 will be big and epic,” Matt Duffer added, echoing Ross’s promise for the final season. “.”

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.”

 and 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…