Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023)

• Year: 2023
• Released: 27 Oct 2023
• Country: United States
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4589218/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/five_nights_at_freddys
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p, 1080p
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Horror
• Runtime: 110 min
• Writer: Scott Cawthon, Seth Cuddeback, Emma Tammi
• Director: Emma Tammi
• Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lucas Grant
• Keywords: restaurant, night shift, diner, security guard, based on video game, duringcreditsstinger,

	5.7/10
	25% – Critics
	89% – Audience

Five Nights at Freddy’s Storyline

Mike Schmidt, a mall cop, loses his job after assaulting a negligent father who he confused for being a kidnapper. He is sent to visit career counselor Steve Raglan, who offers him work as a night guard at an abandoned family diner known as Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. Though initially reluctant, Mike accepts the offer after social services threaten to take custody of his younger sister Abby, and pass her over to his estranged aunt Jane, due to concerns of Mike’s emotional stress.On the first night, Mike falls asleep and has a dream where he witnesses the kidnapping and presumed murder of his brother Garrett, whom was taken away by an unknown man. Mike is then met by five unknown children whom allegedly witnessed the kidnapping, and promptly run away. On the second night, Mike meets police officer Vanessa Shelly, who shows him around the restaurant and tells him that the place closed in the 1980s after five children were murdered there; the bodies were never found. Mike’s dream is repeated, though after Mike attempts to confront one of the children, he is attacked and wakes up to find himself wounded physically, though his wounds are treated by Vanessa.On the third night, Jane hires a group of delinquents to vandalize the restaurant in order to get Mike fired, an act which would enable her to gain custody of Abby. As the break-in occurs, the restaurant’s animatronic mascots – Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Foxy and Bonnie – come alive and murder the delinquents. One of the vandals happens to be Abby’s babysitter Max, which requires Mike to bring Abby to his next shift. The animatronics become active once more, being hostile towards Mike though being friendly towards Abby. The animatronics befriend her, though Vanessa and Mike are hesitant, with the latter discovering that the animatronics are possessed by the ghosts of dead children, whom are led by a boy with blonde hair and allegedly talk about a “yellow rabbit” consistently.In between shifts, Mike explains the disappearance of Garrett when he was young, which became a cold case and that he had been taking sleeping pills every night in order to repeat his dreams and find who kidnapped his brother. After panicking from Abby’s increasing relationship with the animatronics on the fourth night, Vanessa warns Mike to not bring her to the restaurant again. Mike gets Jane to babysit Abby, much to her frustration, as he goes back to the restaurant during the day and overdoses on his sleeping pills.Inside the dream, the five children appear again and tell Mike that he can stay with Garrett forever, in exchange for Abby. At Mike’s house, Jane is murdered by “Golden Freddy”, a variant of Freddy Fazbear possessed by the blonde boy, who takes Abby back to the restaurant. Mike is attacked several times inside of his dream and wakes up strapped to a torture device that attempts to tear off his face. He escapes the machine and flees the restaurant, but is critically injured until Vanessa arrives to help him.After Mike details his dream, Vanessa reveals that she is the daughter of the serial killer that murdered his brother and the other five children, William Afton, and that the animatronics and souls of the children are under his control. She also tells him that they will likely attempt to murder Abby, much to Mike’s dismay. He drives to the restaurant with the necessary equipment to disable the animatronics and save Abby, who is taken into a backroom by Chica. Chica tries to kill Abby by stuffing her inside of an animatronic suit with springlocks, though Mike disables most of the animatronics and saves Abby. However, he is attacked by Chica’s cupcake and is separated from Abby, who is attacked by Foxy but is saved by Vanessa. Both animatronics are defeated, but as the group try to leave the restaurant, William, revealed to have been posing as “Steve Raglan” and having murdered Garrett, appears wearing the now-decaying Spring Bonnie suit, knocks Mike unconscious, and re enables the animatronics.Knowing that they need to understand the truth, Abby begins drawing a picture of William murdering the children, while Vanessa distracts and shoots him but is afterwards stabbed. Abby shows her drawing to the animatronics, causing them to turn on William. Surrounded by the pizzeria’s main mascots, part of his suit gets bitten off by the cupcake animatronic, triggering the springlock machinery inside of it and crushing his body as he is dragged into the back room of the restaurant and locked away. Mike and Abby carry a wounded Vanessa out of the restaurant, though she falls into a coma afterwards and is taken to a hospital. Mike continues to look after Abby and they return to their normal lives.In a mid-credits scene, Golden Freddy watches as the dying William bleeds out in the corner, closing the door on him soon after. In a post-credits scene, Balloon Boy is shown appearing inside a taxi driver’s car.

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Five Nights at Freddy’s Movie Reviews

Fantastic Visuals, Wafer-Thin Story

So, I know it must be extremely difficult to take a simple gaming concept like Five Nights at Freddy’s and stretch that idea out into a full blown movie. I totally understand that artistic hardship, but…The script missed the mark folks.

I honestly enjoyed the stunning look of everything, which I gather most people assume would be top notch given the studio that made the film, but wow… the basic story was so very weak. I’m pretty forgiving when it comes to horror movies, but this was moving into borderline “cheese”, parody territory.

The positives: I was living for the look of the creature costumes. So many kudos there. The acting is pretty decent for a studio movie, as it really should be. Matthew Lillard was the standout performance in my opinion. The music was pretty cool too.

Everything considered, I honestly enjoyed myself, which is the point of any entertainment product after all. So I give it a six. But that side-story, and most of the dialogue really needed to bake in the oven a little longer before being served up.

A Good Time!

Just fresh out of the cinema after seeing Five Nights at Freddy’s, so here’s my spoiler free review for it.

Now, personally, I don’t find the actual concept of FNAF all that scary so I personally wasn’t “scared” watching this. The jumpscares were effective but did this movie ever really make me feel uneasy? No, not really. But again, that’s personal preference and not a dig at the movie at all.

The sound design, cinematography and the overall design of everything (from the animatronics to the actual restaurant) is incredible.

Now, here in the UK the film is rated 15 (which means children cannot watch it. Even if they are accompanied by an adult). In the USA, I know it’s PG-13. For Americans who are probably wondering “Can I take my kid to see this?”. Well, that’s down to you. The film isn’t overloaded with gory imagery, but there are one or two moments where it is extremely brutal, so just keep that in mind.

The “twist” at the end, and yes there’s a twist, is… predictable, in all honesty. If you don’t know anything about the lore, then yeah it might catch you off guard. But if you’re even just slightly knowledgable about it, you probably wouldn’t call it a twist.

Out of the horror movies I have seen, I’d honestly say this is one of the more lighthearted ones. There’s a lot of humour here, as well as moments that do kinda make you think “Is this a horror film?”. It’s not “balls-to-the-wall” scary and I honestly don’t think it was trying to be, nor does it need to be. It’s just a fun film with horror elements, to me.

Overall, really enjoyed it and would recommend it if you’re wanting something to watch for spooky season that is not too intense. It’d also be a great entry for anyone just getting into horror movies.

For the Fans

I will try to keep this short and concise but overall I think the movie holds up to most expectations. Many of the negative reviews here are concerned with the plot but completely ignore the other amazing aspects of this movie, so I will talk about each of them one by one.

I don’t think the plot is that convoluted but that just might be because I’ve been a fan of FNAF for 9 years and I’m used to unnecessarily confusing plots. After watching the movie I could look back and say, yeah I understood that, so in my opinion it’s not too bad.

Lore-wise I don’t think this movie is meant to be groundbreaking or anything, and that’s not what I was expecting. If you come into this movie looking for game lore I don’t think you would enjoy it as much as you would if you were just in it for the experience.

The acting in this movie is incredible and I also really like the costumes and they really sell the show.

The atmosphere lives up the expectations being based off of the first game, it feels really authentic and I quite enjoyed finding Easter eggs and such in the background.

The music and scares were all pretty well done and I enjoyed them 🙂

At the end of the day this movie is meant to be for the fans and I think that may be the reason why it’s so negatively reviewed by the critics. I think as a movie meant for the fans it does what it needed to do and finally gave us the movie adaptation of this game we’ve been waiting for.