Stranger Things: "GoT" star Tom Wlaschiha is new in season four

Two "men without a face" are hiring for the new "Stranger Things" season: Tom Wlaschiha and Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund.

The fourth season of the popular mystery series "Stranger Things" has some well-known names. As the US-American site "Variety" reports, the German "Game of Thrones" star Tom Wlaschiha (47) will join the cast in the new episodes. He is supposed to play a Russian prison guard who befriends a very specific US prisoner – all fans of season three should know who is meant by that.

But a true horror icon also lands in the fictional small town of Hawkins, where "Stranger Things" is set. Robert Englund (73), whom most people probably know, love and fear as the burned nightmare figure Freddy Krueger from the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series, also got a role. In keeping with his reputation, he is said to play a psychopath named Victor Creel, who is incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital for the murder of his wife.

When does season four appear?

Other newcomers include Jamie Campbell Bower (31, "Sweeney Todd"), Eduardo Franco (23, "Booksmart"), Sherman Augustus (61, "Into the Badlands") and Mason Dye (26, "Bosch"). An exact start date for the fourth season is not yet known. Autumn 2021 is assumed to be a possible period.