Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 Trailer Just Surfaced — What's Lurking in the Snow? - Netflix Tudum

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    The Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 Trailer Just Surfaced

    So, what’s lurking beneath the snow?

    By Keisha Hatchett
    March 26, 2026

With the gate to the Upside Down finally shut, life in Hawkins can return to normal, right? At least, that’s how things start out in Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, the upcoming animated series from Eric Robles (Glitch Techs, Fanboy & Chum Chum) and executive produced by the Duffer Brothers.

But judging by the full trailer, which you can watch above, things for the Hawkins crew are anything but ordinary. Something must have survived from the Upside Down, and now it’s up to the group to stop the fearsome new monsters that are surfacing all over town.

Dustin, Max, Lucas, Mike, Eleven, Will, and Nikki in ‘Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85’
A creature in ‘Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85’
Max and Lucas in ‘Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85’

“It’s like Hawkins Lab science meets Upside Down matter,” Robles, who serves as showrunner, writer, and executive producer, told Tudum. “When you put them together, those are the kinds of creatures we have in our world.”

That includes the sharklike monster hiding in the snow, which Robles reveals was inspired by the classic 1975 horror film Jaws. “I grew up watching [that movie], and we play with the same trope in the sense [that] underneath all that snow, there’s something lurking, and you just never know where that thing’s going to come out and grab you,” he explains.

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Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 follows our heroes Eleven (voiced by Brooklyn Davey Norstedt), Mike (Luca Diaz), Will (Benjamin Plessala), Dustin (Braxton Quinney), Lucas (Elisha “EJ” Williams), and Max (In Your Dreams’s Jolie Hoang-Rappaport) in the winter of 1985. Something terrifying has awakened beneath the ice, and it’s up to our crew to solve this mystery and save Hawkins in this new story set in the Stranger Things universe.

Max, Mike, Will, Eleven, Lucas, Dustin, and Nikki in ‘Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85’
Steve and Dustin in ‘Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85’
Eleven and Hopper in ‘Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85’

More familiar friends will be along for the ride, too, including Hopper (Brett Gipson) and Steve (Supergirl’s Jeremy Jordan). Plus, a new companion — the pink-haired Nikki Baxter (Marty Supreme’s Odessa A’zion) — is poised to join the party. Janeane Garofalo also lends her voice as Anna Baxter as well as Lou Diamond Phillips as Daniel Fischer, Robert Englund as Cosmo, Alysia Reiner as Karen Wheeler, Alessandra Antonelli as Nancy Wheeler, Valeria Rodriguez as Rosario, and Jack Griffo as Jeff.

Robles executive produces the series via Flying Bark Productions, along with the Duffer Brothers and Hilary Leavitt via Upside Down Pictures, Shawn Levy via 21 Laps, and Dan Cohen.


Stream Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 when it premieres April 23 on Netflix. You can be among the first to watch the series before it debuts by attending a special early screening. Plus, get all the key intel on the series here, and read up on what else to expect in this interview with Robles.

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