I went into this film not really knowing what it was about. The guys asked me if I remembered playing this video game and I most certainly did not which intrigued me even more to watch the film.
I will say this was the Halloween film needed for Halloween weekend, as we’re supposedly done with Michael Myers. Going back to the whole video game thing, I do not remember this being a video game so perhaps that helped me like the film more. If I was a big fan of the video game and then watched this adaptation, I’m guessing it would have disappointed me.
In the video game, the player takes control of a night shift security guard at a once popular and now abandoned pizzeria known as Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, which is rumored to contain haunted and reanimated life-size animatronics.
The pizzeria itself is abandoned and falling apart thanks to a series of tragedies associated with it, mostly the kidnapping and supposed murders of five children by a man named William Afton. It is rumored that the childrens’ bodies had been stuffed inside the animatronic mascots of the pizzeria, named Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy, which had led to a widespread boycott of the business and directly led to its demise.
With a young man monitoring the venue and the animatronics at night through the use of security cameras, it quickly becomes cleart that these rumors are true, with the mascots moving freely throughout the facility with malicious intent. The player can only survive in the pizzeria by managing the power supply of doors and lights, ensuring that none of the possessed animatronics can get close enough to inflict a mortal wound. Now the animatronics do become enamored with the player’s sister who is the security guard in the film. All seems well at some point until it is revealed what the animatronic’s real intentions are with the little girl. There is a major twist in the film when we find this out, as the police officer who has befriended this security guard and his sister has a deep secret of her own. I can’t reveal too much without giving away the whole film, so you’re just going to have to watch it!
The terrifying horror game phenomenon becomes a blood-chilling cinematic event, as Blumhouse— the producer of M3GAN, The Black Phone and The Invisible Man— brings Five Nights at Freddy’s to the big screen.
The film follows Mike (Josh Hutcherson; Ultraman, The Hunger Games franchise) a troubled young man caring for his 10-year-old sister Abby (Piper Rubio; Holly & Ivy, Unstable), and haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother more than a decade before.
Recently fired and desperate for work so that he can keep custody of Abby, Mike agrees to take a position as a night security guard at an abandoned theme restaurant: Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria. But Mike soon discovers that nothing at Freddy’s is what it seems. With the aid of Vanessa, a local police officer (Elizabeth Lail; You, Mack & Rita), Mike’s nights at Freddy’s will lead him into unexplainable encounters with the supernatural and drag him into the black heart of an unspeakable nightmare.
The film also stars Mary Stuart Masterson (Blindspot, Fried Green Tomatoes), as Mike’s icy Aunt Jane; Kat Conner Sterling (We Have a Ghost, 9-1-1) as Abby’s caring babysitter, Max; and Matthew Lillard (Good Girls, Scream) as Steve Raglan, Mike’s smug career counselor.
Five Nights at Freddy’s is directed by Emma Tammi (The Wind, Blood Moon) and is written by Scott Cawthon, Emma Tammi and Seth Cuddeback.
The film’s iconic animatronic characters will be created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.
Five Nights at Freddy’s is produced by Jason Blum and Scott Cawthon. The film’s executive producers are Bea Sequeira, Russell Binder, Marc Mostman and Christopher H. Warner. Universal Pictures presents a Blumhouse production, in association with Striker Entertainment.
Cast
Josh Hutcherson
Elizabeth Lail
Kat Conner Sterling
and Piper Rubio
with Mary Stuart Masterson
and Matthew Lillard
Directed by
Emma Tammi
Written by
Scott Cawthon
Emma Tammi
Seth Cuddeback
Based on the video game series by
Scott Cawthon
Produced by
Jason Blum
Scott Cawthon
Executive Producers
Bea Sequeira
Russell Binder
Marc Mostman
Christopher H. Warner
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