Before you rewatch Stranger Things, Netflix is adding a beloved Guillermo del Toro monster movie to its lineup in January 2026.

The series finale of Stranger Things will stream on Netflix and screen in movie theaters on New Year’s Eve, but some viewers say Season 5’s production values aren’t cinema-worthy. In fact, a popular Reddit thread sees viewers complaining about the low-budget “Netflix look” of such a high-budget show.

Netflix has confirmed the theater locations that will screen the series finale and that it will run for over two hours

A woman accused of trespassing at the 'Hawkins lab' filming site from 'Stranger Things' was found dead. What to know

The series finale of Stranger Things arrives on Netflix (and in some movie theaters) on New Year’s Eve, promising an epic conclusion to the story that began in 2016 with the abduction of Will Byers in Hawkins,

After keeping us in the dark for almost 10 years, Stranger Things has finally revealed what the Upside Down actually is – and as Dustin Henderson says in season 5, all our theories about the dark realm have been "dead wrong" so far. Well, unless you've seen the stage show, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, that is...

Joe Keery, who plays Steve Harrington in Stranger Things, cites a major influence on the show as a "perfect" film.

The Gate stars Stephen Dorff (yes, that Stephen Dorff) as a 12-year-old boy named Glen who, along with his heavy metal-loving, nerdy friend Terry, discovers a gateway to Hell in his backyard. The removal of a pesky tree opens the portal, and as soon as Glen's parents head out of town for the weekend, weirdness ensues.

All that looked set to change going into the Netflix show's ongoing final chapter, with creators Matt and Ross Duffer teasing a tearjerking closer and warning longtime fans that it'd boast "the most violent death of any season". Turns out, though, we may not lose anyone in the two hours and eight minutes that remain...

Bower’s “Stranger Things” character, Vecna, may be a monstrous humanoid creature who lives in the Upside Down, but he has a human backstory. He was born Henry Creel, a boy with psychic and psychokinetic abilities.

This story contains spoilers from Season 5, Volume 2 of "Stranger Things, now streaming on Netflix. In one week, we’ll have all the answers. But for now, we’ve got a lot of questions. During the Christmas Day release of Volume 2 of “Stranger Things 5,