'Stranger Things' newcomer Myles Truitt says the new season doesn't have demodogs, but it does have 'hella bats'

• Myles Truitt, who plays Patrick in "Stranger Things 4," teased one of the season's new monsters.
• He said that the new season of the show has "hella bats."

Myles Truitt, a newcomer who plays Patrick in the upcoming fourth season of "Stranger Things," told Insider that while the new season doesn't have the vicious demodogs of season two, it does have "hella bats."

The new season, which premieres on Netflix on Friday, takes place several months after the end of the show's third season, which was released in July 2019. Split between Indiana, California, and Russia, the show's cast must come together once again to defeat a new horror from the Upside Down dubbed Vecna.

Truitt plays Patrick, a star on the Hawkins High basketball team who becomes a friend to Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) in the new season. In an interview on the "Stranger Things" premiere red carpet in Brooklyn on May 14, Truitt told Insider that this season was more "mature" than previous ones.

He also said that the new season has "hella bats."

"Not demodogs," Truitt said, referencing the small, demogorgon-like monsters from the show's second season. "But there's hella bats."

"Stranger Things" showrunner team Matt and Ross Duffer previously teased the show's new monsters in a virtual set visit, IGN reported in April.

"We always like to introduce a new Demo-Creature as you will, and so we were excited about introducing Demo-Bats," Matt Duffer told IGN. "Maybe one of them alone is not very dangerous, but when there's hundreds and hundreds of them coming to you at the same time, they're very, very deadly, and they also have the ability to act as spies."

Truitt told Insider that his character, Patrick, has his own "signature weapon" — a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire.

"There's a lot of shit going on, man," Truitt said of the new season. "As much as you guys are anticipating it and the audience is, I am too."

All seven episodes of "Stranger Things" season four, part one will premiere on Netflix this Friday.