“Five Nights at Freddy’s,” rated PG-13, horror/mystery/thriller, was released in theaters and on Peacock on October 27. This move is about a guy named Mike who gets a job so that his sister, Abby, doesn’t get taken by his aunt while also having to deal with the trauma of losing his own brother to a man he thinks he remembers and having to deal with killer animatronics that want to take his only sister. Most say that it wasn’t a good movie; however, I have good reason to believe that they are completely wrong.
What most people and critics get wrong about the movie is what it’s mostly based on, which is the novels or graphic novels; the one they are basing it off of is “The Silver Eyes”. “The Silver Eyes” is a novel while also having a graphic novel adaptation, which most critics, people, and even fans have not read. The “Five Nights at Freddy’s” movie uses both games and novel medicine to create this new world and build upon its story. If they were to base it off the games, it would be mostly cams and just sitting in the office, which is boring and only works for the games, but if they also add in some of the novel’s story into it, it makes a much better story since the plot they used is that Freddy’s is runned down, which gives it the whole vibe of the animatronics being left behind to rot.
Enough about me proving my point; let’s talk about some of the cameos. All the cameos on the employee board in the building are as follows: Baz, Dawko, FusionZGamer, and Razzbowski, which are all YouTubers who have made fnaf content. More of the important cameos are from Coryx Kenshin, a taxi driver who hows up at the beginning, and in a post-credit scene, Matpat, who appeared as a server in Sparky’s Diner. Matpat was supposed to be in it as the first guard but couldn’t show up due to his own movie. Finally, there were appearances of Sparky the Dog, a hoax, Shadow Freddy, and maybe a torture Freddy suit in the parts and service room, along with an Ella doll suit and “The Living Tombstone’s Five Nights at Freddy’s,” which was amazing to hear at the end of the movie.
Now it’s time to clear up the lore in this movie and why it works in the story and not the games. Let’s first talk about the pixel intro. In this intro, we see a man putting on a rabbit costume and slowly luring kids away and killing them. This gives us an explanation of what happened at Freddy’s location, and it’s an amazing callback to the pixel mini-games in the series. They also show the animatronics expressing themselves through drawings, as shown in the Silver Eyes book series. This is a key detail since they use it to defeat William by showing them what really happened by drawing and spring-locking him. Speaking of springlocks, this is probably the most accurate representation of a springlock failure since the bleeding is mostly internal and it would fill his lungs with blood, making him barely able to scream but only to utter one last line.
Overall, I say the Fnaf movie is amazing for people who have seen the series and have at least read the first novel so they can understand what is going on. I do agree that the movie could change something, like adding at least one jump scare from one of the characters since it would be cool to see, and also changing the Freddy kill scene to him sitting in the dark and his main theme, “Les Toreadors”, and then killing Max. At least we can all agree about three things: the animatronics looked amazing, the song “Foxy Fatality”, was superb, and Doug the lawyer should have gotten an appetizer since he looked scared throughout the whole movie even though he never went to Freddy’s once.
