Five Nights at Freddy's

Five Nights at Freddy's

A troubled security guard begins working at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy's won't be so easy to make it through.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 180 minutes
  • Genre: Horror, Thrillers
  • Stars: Matthew Lillard, Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Mary Stuart Masterson, Grant Feely, Jessica Blackmore, Bailey Winston, Elizabeth Lail, Christian Stokes, Joseph Poliquin, Michael Sullivan, Kat Conner Sterling, Lucas Grant, Xander Mateo, Ryan Reinike, Asher Colton Spence, Jophielle Love, Theodus Crane, Wyatt Parker, Kevin Foster
  • Director: Emma Tammi
 Comments
  • rohanumpleby-34057 - 29 June 2024
    Under-rated, Decent film.
    Right from the off the film really feels like the popular game franchise. By that I mean the games have darker and more metal pieces on the piece of furniture. This right from the off feels like the game, in a larger scale. The Music and Baklckgrounds feel awfully similar in every way shape or form. And it works to it's advantage inside the film. So let's review, "FNAF".

    Mike is somewhat of a flimsy character, he speaks seemingly quitley and doesn't say much, unless he's trying to find out what happened to his brother. He is struggling for work, so when a new job comes his way, he takes it. Even with the bad hours. He decides to join, Freddy Fazbears workplace. It gets a bit predictable when he works out that the Anamametronics aren't quite as they seem, a regular trope. But it does work for the film.

    What didn't make much sense is why his aunt was trying to end his career. And markes him down in a patronising way, she was very annoying throughout the film. She tries to get a gang to wreck the place, and cause havoc. As they do. However, this angers the anomotronics and we see a bloodbath. Also, why was the Carer of Mike's little sister Abby slightly against him. Max seems nice and friendly, but she's also not sure which side she's on.

    But, the Anamotronics are well handled, they move and are structured and designed exactly the same as the game. In every way, the costumes look really realistic and there eyes, when they change is really effective. They also move like the video games show. Every detail about them is impressive, down to the last minute details. They look very much like the game. And I like how they are all different, with very different strengths.

    The Police officer didn't make sense either, why didn't she warn Mike about the Anamametronics or the dangers of the place, especially when the gang also entered. But she tries and helps out. When Abby goes to the place. The police officer is set out to destroy her dad's work. The Anamametronics soon realise what he's done, and now they are all in.

    The Ghost kids, were in Mike's dreams, consistently when he was working at Freddy Fazbears work place. Which were then telling him about his missing brother. That was a cool and interesting direction to go.

    So overall, with a bit of work, the film could of been great and something special. But I'd recommend this to the die hard fans of the popular game series.
  • MightyMacT - 12 June 2024
    Went in for a fun time, left feeling underwhelmed
    I was hoping this would at least be a critics hate it but the audience loves it kinda movie, but it fails on both ends.

    As a casual FNAF enjoyer, I was excited to see what they could make of this story knowing it was in the right hands, but all I was left with was an admiration for Josh Hutcherson's ability to carry the film with very lame material. The rest of cast portrayed unbelievable characters and unenthused dialogue.

    I like the attempt at fleshing out the protagonist giving him reasons to do what he does, but this results in a very one-sided, predictable character. Having the same dream EVERY night for 10+ years or so, seemed a bit of a stretch for me to buy. If this event tormented him gradually throughout the years at his weakest moments, this would feel a little more impactful and realistic. All we got a character where his name is Mike, he needs money, and he all he does in his spare time is have this dream. That's it. And the movie focuses on that aspect for most of the film's runtime.

    The best parts of the story seemed to be the parts that were just glossed over the most. The meat & potato's of the lore. The children's bodies animating the animatronics and being controlled by their killer is something that should've been more dramatic and a big eerie feeling. But instead we got the information when it was relevant and moved on to uneventful action scenes.

    It was fun to see the set design and animatronics in movie format which are the movies saving grace. But the camera work and visual effects left more to be desired. The shot of Abby getting electrocuted was the worst of it. A series of shots that have been done millions of times, but somehow this looked worse than similar attempts 40+ years ago.

    On the horror side of things, besides a few forced and predictable jump scares, the film wasn't even remotely creepy in the least. I really think the PG-13 rating hurt this film quite a bit and limited their options, but even the things they were allowed to do was done very poorly so I can't think that a higher rating would've saved the film. A big focus should've been on the panic of being trapped in a room with monsters roaming the halls with the surveillance footage being a creepy reminder of that. Having the "playtime" montage with the animatronics really lost all threat and impending doom of what should've been the main highlight.

    In short, the movie was a slow build up to a big nothing burger that really fell short on using the golden nuggets of material that they were given from the series of games.

    4/10.