Five Nights at Freddy's Review
By Henry Bustamante Flores
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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 the 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 has been a staple in the horror gaming community for creating mascot horror and bringing to light a new generation of horror games. At the start, Five Nights at Freddy’s didn’t get much attention since it was new on the app store/Google store until PewDiePie started to play, which started the popularity of FNAF. Soon later sequels continued the original game till the fourth game afterward they made a spinoff. But fans didn’t want to have more games but rather a movie so creator Scott Cawthon planned to make a movie after so long. But on the way there were issues. The issue was that Scott Cawthon wanted to find a good director to shoot the movie. So the movie had to test different directors until there was one that would make the movie to its source and add the same fright, like the game.
I saw the movie with a friends Saturday. Here is his opinion on the movie:
Christopher Antonio, 12th grader “The movie was a 10 out of 10. It captures the feeling of the games while adding humor. It includes many references from the game that only an FNAF fan would notice. But to end off, “F#@k! Balloon Boy”.
Overall, the FNAF movie does well in its adaptability to the games. It has many references from the games that fans of the game would notice. I recommend this movie. If you can’t watch it in theaters, another way to watch it is on Peacock. But the movie may not be appreciated by all those who aren’t fans since the movie has lore and many characters from the franchises that those might not know. And they may be confused with the references from the movie. But give the movie a chance whether you're a fan or not. As a fan, it would be 10 out of 10 but for those, it would be 8 or 5 cause they might find it not scary.
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