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Based on the same-titled video games that spawned a whole universe of novels and action figures, this duo of horror films from Blumhouse was panned by critics, but became a sensation for audiences.
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Five Night at Freddy's (2023)
Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023)
Mike (Josh Hutcherson) lives with trauma – inherited by his missing
brother who was taken many years ago – and doesn’t seem able to put his life
together as he is a certified loser that keeps getting fired by one dead-end
job after the other. His newest gig is as a security guard in an abandoned
pizzeria that back in the 1980s was massive attraction for youngsters, mainly
due to a selection of animatronics human-sized toys. But spending the nights in
the old building won’t be an easy feat.
Made on a modest $20 million budget – which surprisingly managed to
afford some pretty stunning mechanical special effects – by producers Jason
Blum and Scott Cawthon, this is rarely creepy, and it is rarely lively enough
to maintain your interest. Director Emma Tammi [The Wind (2018)] does a competent job, but most of it is standard
(by the numbers) coverage, and it doesn’t really offer anything inspired. The
critics took note and commented negatively, but somehow audiences loved it as
it grossed a stunning $297.1 million – an excellent amount that spawned a
sequel.
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Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025)
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025)
Although this was made a couple of years after the original, it is set a
year after the events of the first film and it finds Abby (Piper Rubio)
reconnecting her animatronics friends from the local abandoned pizzeria when
she feels left out of science class, but as the deadly robots offer an
emotional hand of help, they also offer pain.
Once again directed by Emma Tammi, this doesn’t really take advantage of
the potential that creepy animatronics could have – it is only really scary on
very few occasions – and it even spends a lot of time to unnecessary character
development, in a needless attempt to present itself as a serious suspense
picture, forgetting that it needs to be a horror movie. Nonetheless it grossed
a bombastic $237 million, so who am I to judge?
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