Netflix has teased fans with a first glimpse of the fourth season of Stranger Things ahead of its release next year.
A clip for the next installment of the sci-fi drama was shared on social media on Friday.
The first season of the hit programme was released on the streaming service in 2016 and was a hit with those nostalgic for the 1980s.
"The world has been watching," the clip states. "In 2022, the global phenomenon returns."
Set in the 1980s, Stranger Things follows a group of teenagers in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, battling an evil monster – who comes from the underworld known as the Upside Down.
The show stars Winona Ryder, Millie Bobby Brown, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink, Noah Schnapp and Gaten Matarazzo.
Sink, who plays Max Mayfield, previously said the fourth series will be "really dark".
Speaking in June, she told the PA news agency: "It's definitely a really, really dark season.
"Each season the production scale gets bigger and bigger and the stakes are really, really high this year, as they are always.
"But there’s something about this season, it’s really intense."
