Chapter One: The Hellfire Club

"Chapter One: The Hellfire Club"
Stranger Things episode
Promotional poster by Butcher Billy[1]
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 1
Directed by	The Duffer Brothers
Written by	The Duffer Brothers
Featured music	"California Dreamin'" by The Beach Boys "Object of My Desire" by Starpoint "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" by Kate Bush "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" by The Cramps "Fever" by The Cramps "Play with Me" by Extreme "Detroit Rock City" by Kiss
Original release date	May 27, 2022 (2022-05-27)
Running time	77 minutes
Guest appearances
Logan Riley Bruner as Fred Benson Joe Chrest as Ted Wheeler Catherine Curtin as Claudia Henderson Mason Dye as Jason Carver Amybeth McNulty as Vickie Elodie Grace Orkin as Angela Gabriella Pizzolo as Suzie Grace Van Dien as Chrissy Cunningham Martie Blair as young Eleven Christian Ganiere as Ten Tristan Spohn as Two Hendrix Yancey as Thirteen Myles Truitt as Patrick McKinney Elizabeth Becka as Dr. Ellis Regina Ting Chen as Ms. Kelly Julia Reilly as Tammy Thompson
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"Chapter One: The Hellfire Club" is the fourth season premiere of the American science fiction horror drama television series Stranger Things, and the 26th episode overall. Set in 1986, months after the events of the previous season, it shows the changes and challenges of Eleven, Mike Wheeler, and their friends in their freshman year of high school, while a new supernatural monster begins attacking the inhabitants of Hawkins. The episode was written and directed by the series' creators, the Duffer Brothers.

The episode stars Winona Ryder, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Brett Gelman, Priah Ferguson, Matthew Modine, and Cara Buono, all returning from previous seasons, alongside new cast members Jamie Campbell Bower, Eduardo Franco, and Joseph Quinn.

"The Hellfire Club" was released on May 27, 2022, on Netflix. It received mostly positive reviews, with particular praise going towards the horror elements and Quinn's performance.