Netflix has dropped the trailer for Stranger Things season 5 Volume 2 and the action is more intense than ever

Everything we thought we knew about the Upside Down has been, well, upside down. At least that’s what a bloodied, defeated-looking Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) says in the new trailer for Stranger Things 5, Volume 2. Fans have been watching the first episodes of season 5 in droves (and the first four seasons) and we can safely predict more of the same to come.

What’s the story behind the Volume 2 trailer [spoilers for the first four episodes]

From the press release:

In the final season’s second chapter, which premieres on Christmas Day with three episodes, our heroes race against the clock to unravel Hawkins’s darkest secrets.

“We failed,” Will (Noah Schnapp) tells Joyce (Winona Ryder). “We never stood a chance.”

His mom, taking him in his arms, disagrees.

“It’s not over,” Joyce says. “Not by a long shot.”

And, indeed, the two-minute trailer delivers thrill after thrill, from a fight-to-the-death pact between Dustin and Steve (Joe Keery) to an electrocuted (!) Demogorgon.

Note the release is on US time and will be very early in the morning of Boxing Day in the UK. The finale likewise appears early New Years Day here. One last point — in the trailer’s final moments, Vecna creeps closer as he declares that it’s time for a “new world.”

Watch and enjoy: