The Five Nights at Freddy’s has been highly anticipated since the announcement of its release in March of 2023. The movie features well known actors such as Josh Hutcherson and Matthew Lillard. The movie also shows Youtubers such as The Game Theorists and CoryxKenshin.
“My favorite part was how they portrayed the characters and I loved their actors, I think they did a great job at making the movie scarier, the movie was very scary to me and surprisingly similar to the games,” sophomore Maddison Schumaker stated.
Directed by Emma Tammi, written by Scott Cawthon, Seth Cuddeback and Emma Tammi the movie was released on October 27 of 2023, in theater and on streaming platform Peacock. Many people viewed the movie as the end of an era and the end of the franchise.
“I know the movie was not perfect, but it was an amazing introduction to new fans and a piece of work for old fans, containing so many different easter eggs hinting at old theories and at the games,” sophomore Ellie Davis stated.
The Five Nights at Freddy’s fandom has only grown with a total of twenty games, ten main, six spin-offs, and four troll games the first game being released in August of 2014. The Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise also has a total of 48 books in total three novels, twenty-one anthology books, eight graphic novels, five guidebooks, three coloring books, and eight other books.
“I really wanted to like it but it just wasn’t that good, I thought the animatronics would be scary then I look at the screen and they are building a stupid fort like why,” sophomore Marylyn Mickey stated.
The movie follows older brother Mike Schmidt after losing his job trying to find another to provide for his little sister Abby. Throughout the movie, Mike starts a job at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza working nights 12-6. After Mike’s babysitter does not show up for the night Mike is forced to take Abby to work with him. Throughout the night Mike is awoken by the sound of his little sister screaming and he rushes out of his office to find her playing with the animatronics.
“I thought the movie was really good. I felt that only a few scenes didn’t go with the movie, more the fort scene I didn’t see why it was relevant to the plotline, but overall it was good,” sophomore Jackson Rowe stated.