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Five Nights at Freddy’s
Five Nights at Freddy's
Five Nights at Freddy's
- Time: 109 minutes
- Director: Emma Tammi
- Country: United States
- Categories: Horror
- Release: 2023
- IMDB: 5.5/10
- Actor: Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Elizabeth Lail, Matthew Lillard, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kat Conner Sterling, David Lind, Christian Stokes, Joseph Poliquin
- Tags: Five Nights at Freddy's Movies
About Five Nights at Freddy’s
Five Nights at Freddy’s is a 2023 American supernatural horror film based on the video game series of the same name created by Scott Cawthon. Directed by Emma Tammi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Cawthon and Seth Cuddeback, the film stars Josh Hutcherson with Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Matthew Lillard appearing in supporting roles. Hutcherson plays a troubled security guard working in an abandoned family entertainment center, where he discovers the animatronic mascots are possessed by homicidal children.
Development of a Five Nights at Freddy’s film adaptation began in April 2015 under the direction of Warner Bros. Pictures. Roy Lee, David Katzenberg, and Seth Grahame-Smith were set to produce it, with Gil Kenan announced as director and co-writer. After multiple production delays, Kenan resigned from the project, and further development on the film was transferred from Warner Bros. to Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions. Chris Columbus was hired to direct and co-write, ultimately leaving the project and being replaced by Emma Tammi in October 2022. Under a budget of $20 million, filming began in New Orleans and took place from February to April 2023.
Five Nights at Freddy’s was released for streaming on Peacock and theatrically in the United States on October 26, 2023, by Universal Pictures. The film received generally negative reviews from critics but was a commercial success, becoming Blumhouse’s highest-grossing film worldwide with $299.5 million.
Substances
At Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, an abandoned pizzeria and family entertainment center that was once successful, a night security guard attempts to flee from the place but is captured and strapped to a torture device, which kills him.
Sometime later, mall security guard Mike Schmidt is fired for assaulting a negligent father whom he mistook for a kidnapper. Mike’s career counselor, Steve Raglan, offers him a job as a night guard at Freddy’s. Though initially reluctant, Mike accepts after social services threaten to take custody of his younger sister Abby and pass her to their estranged aunt Jane, who desires the custody’s monthly payments.
During his first night on the job, Mike falls asleep and dreams about the kidnapping of his little brother, Garrett. He meets five children who also witnessed the crime, but flee when he approaches them. The following day, Jane hires a gang of vandals, which includes Abby’s babysitter Max and is led by Max’s brother Jeff, to vandalize the restaurant in order to get Mike fired and hasten Jane’s custody of Abby. At Mike’s shift that night, he meets police officer Vanessa Shelly, who explains that Freddy’s closed during the 1980s after five children were murdered there. The suspect and the victims’ bodies were never found. Once Mike’s shift ends and he leaves, the vandals break in, but the restaurant’s animatronic mascots—Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and Mr. Cupcake—become alive and kill the entire group. Max’s disappearance forces Mike to bring Abby along on his next shift, in which the animatronics befriend Abby and Mike discovers that the animatronics are possessed by the amnesiac ghosts of the missing children, whose leader consistently mentions a “yellow rabbit”.
On the fourth night, Abby is accidentally injured when she, Mike, and Vanessa are bonding with the animatronics. The next morning, Mike gets Jane to babysit a frustrated Abby as he goes back to Freddy’s and takes some sleeping pills. The children appear in his dream again and tell him that he can stay with Garrett forever in exchange for Abby. Mike initially accepts but when he changes his mind, he is attacked by Foxy and wakes up strapped to the torture device. He escapes by removing pins that his predecessor had loosened. Meanwhile, a damaged yellow Freddy animatronic,[a] possessed by the leader of the children, kills Jane and takes Abby back to the restaurant.
Vanessa treats Mike’s injuries and reveals that she is the daughter of William Afton, the serial killer who kidnapped and murdered the five children and Garrett. He hid their bodies in the animatronics, knowing the police would never search those, and their souls are under his control. Realizing that the animatronics plan to kill Abby and have her join them, Mike rushes to the restaurant. The animatronics are defeated, but reactivated by Steve, who arrives wearing the “yellow rabbit” suit,[b] revealing himself to be William.
Knowing the animatronics like drawings, Abby draws a picture of William murdering the children in order to free them from his influence and make them realize the truth. Vanessa attempts to stop her father but he stabs her. When the animatronics see Abby’s drawing, they turn on William. Mr. Cupcake bites off part of William’s suit, triggering its internal springlock mechanisms, which fatally wound him. As they drag him away, Mike and Abby carry Vanessa out of the restaurant, who later falls into a coma and is hospitalized. Shortly after, Mike and Abby reconcile and resume their normal lives.
Cast
Josh Hutcherson as Mike Schmidt, a new security guard at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza
Wyatt Parker as Young Mike
Piper Rubio as Abby, Mike’s younger sister
Elizabeth Lail as Vanessa, a local police officer
Emma Jo Tassin as Young Vanessa
Mary Stuart Masterson as Aunt Jane, Mike and Abby’s aunt
Matthew Lillard as Steve Raglan / William Afton, Mike’s career counselor
Kat Conner Sterling as Max, Abby’s babysitter
David Lind as Jeff, the leader of a juvenile gang and Max’s brother
Christian Stokes as Hank, a member of Jeff’s gang
Joseph Poliquin as Carl, a member of Jeff’s gang
Grant Feely as Ghost Kid (Blonde Boy), the murdered child whose soul haunts Golden Freddy
Asher Colton Spence as Ghost Kid (With Hook), the murdered child whose soul haunts Foxy
David Houston Doty as Ghost Kid (With Bunny Ears), the murdered child whose soul haunts Bonnie
Liam Hendrix as Ghost Kid (With Hat), the murdered child whose soul haunts Freddy Fazbear
Jophielle Love as Ghost Kid (Blue-Eyed Girl), the murdered child whose soul haunts Chica
Tadasay Young as Dr. Lillian
Michael P. Sullivan as Doug, Jane’s lawyer
Lucas Grant as Garrett, Mike’s younger brother who was abducted as a child
Theodus Crane as Jeremiah, Mike’s previous co-worker
Matthew Patrick as Sparky’s Diner waiter
Cory Williams as a cabbie
