What’s It About
A troubled security guard begins working at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the late shift at Freddy’s won’t be so easy to make it through.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
It’s another movie based on a video game that’s taking the winning formula that took so long to achieve in the wrong direction. Back in the day video game to movie adaptations like Double Dragon (1994), Street Fighter (1994), and Mortal Kombat (1995) ruined the genre. It has taken approximately twenty years for production companies to take a true monetary gamble on video game movies, but popular titles like Angry Birds (2016), Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), and the Resident Evil movie franchise (2002-2016) let Hollywood know that just like any film, with the right script, actors, and budget, these type of movies can potentially make more money with less advertising since they already have an audience. Five Nights at Freddy’s is a video game franchise that should have never transitioned to the big screen. The movie gets the look right, and a lot of the scenery is spot-on, but the story is missing so much that it ruins the entire film. FNAF is a game that relies heavily on jump scares. This film opens with that, then proceeds to talk about Mike Schmidt, the soon-to-be new night security guard. They talk about him so much this movie should have been called Mike Schmidt Goes to Freddy’s. Other than the opening scene, this movie is so slow and drawn out that by the time anything else happens, it doesn’t live up to the wait. Things try to pick up later on, but FNAF is approximately one hundred minutes long, and the story of Mike Schmidt covers about forty-five minutes. The rest loosely focuses on the lore of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. The plot was so far-fetched you would need to be a preschooler to think the story had any believability to it. Most of the time, when a story is this unbelievable, the great actors can pull you in and establish a sense of reality within any storyline put before them. Well, not this time. These actors were awful. I felt like I was watching a drama student’s project to decide their final grade before graduation. I’m sure that one day, Five Nights at Freddy’s might develop a cult following, much like the 1993 Super Mario Bros. film. But that was only after the release of the very successful Super Mario Bros. Movie thirty years later. Maybe FNAF will have the same luck, but I highly doubt it.
OUR RATING – A YELLOW RABBIT 4
MEDIA
- Genre – Horror
- Street date
- Digital – November 28th, 2023
- DVD/Blu-Ray/4K – December 12th, 2023
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2.00:1
- Sound – English (Dolby Atmos for Feature, Dolby Digital 2.0 for Bonus Content), French Canadian (Dolby Digital 5.1 for Feature), and Latin American Spanish (Dolby Digital 7.1 for Feature)
- Subtitles – English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras
- FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S: From Game to Big Screen – Feel the frights of Freddy Fazbear’s come alive as the film recreates the game’s world with immersive environments and wild surprises that’ll haunt longtime fans and newcomers alike.
- Killer Animatronics – Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy transform from cute and cuddly into creepy and killer through a combination of costumed performers and cutting-edge puppetry.
- FIVE NIGHTS in Three Dimensions – FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S takes a two-dimensional game and turns it into a three-dimensional nightmare one click