As one of the pop culture sensations of last year, Stranger Things was destined to make a splash at Comic-Con. And so it proved, with a fun panel and a brand new trailer for Season 2, evocatively set to Michael Jackson's Thriller.
The music, complete with chunks of Vincent Price's atmospheric narration, was perfect for a new look at the latest season, which finds Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) seeing apocalyptic visions and teasing the return of Millie Bobby Brown's Eleven.
While the cast, which included the kids plus David Harbour, Matthew Modine, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton and new recruits Paul Reiser, Dacre Montgomery and Sadie Sink, were largely forbidden from dropping too many hints about what is to come (though Harbour promised "sexy times" for Jim Hopper), the panel was mostly focused on looking back at shooting the first season and moderator Patton Oswalt's good-natured ribbing of almost everyone. Prime among his targets were Harbour ("Hellboy has a dad bod!") and Modine ("You look like you just finished selling ecstasy"), plus Finn Wolfhard (whose name he considered to be a future porn star moniker, while Wolfhard snapped back just as much). The show might be scary, but the set seems like a fun place to be...
Stranger Things returns to Netflix on 27 October.