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Five Nights at Freddy's
Are you ready for Freddy? Critics: Oh no, we aren't.
Genre: Horror Comedy Directed by: Emma Tammi Produced by: Scott Cawthon Jason Blum Based on: Five Nights at Freddy's by Scott Cawthon Starring: Josh Hutcherson Elizabeth Lail Piper Rubio Mary Stuart Masterson Matthew Lillard Cinematography: Lyn Moncrief Distributed by: Universal Pictures Release date: October 27, 2023 Runtime: 109 minutes Country: United States Language: English Budget: $20 million Box office: $294.5 million Sequel: Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025)

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 as a troubled security guard who starts a job at an abandoned pizzeria where he discovers its animatronic mascots are possessed by murdered children. Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Matthew Lillard star in supporting roles.

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. It was filmed from February to April 2023 in New Orleans and surrounding communities on a budget of $20 million.

Five Nights at Freddy's was simultaneously released for streaming on Peacock and theatrically in the United States on October 27, 2023, by Universal Pictures. The film received generally negative reviews from critics but was a commercial success, grossing $297 million and becoming Blumhouse's highest-grossing film worldwide, surpassing Split (2016). A sequel, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, is scheduled to be released on December 5, 2025.

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Good Qualities That Survived Five Nights

1. Despite its flaws, it still has a handful enough of fans and good qualities to have a separate page on the Good media side.

Reception

Five Nights at Freddy's received generally negative reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 32% of 212 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.7/10. The website's consensus reads: "Loaded with Easter eggs, Five Nights at Freddy's may be fun to watch for fans of the game, but most viewers of any other persuasion will find this adaptation muddled and decidedly unscary."

OMW rated the movie a 38% based 426 users, the website’s consensus reads: “Diminished by uneven characters and treacly cameos, Five Nights at Freddy’s is a movie that ought to be tossed back to the Lady in the Lake.”

Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 33 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.

Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale, while those polled at PostTrak gave it a 77% overall positive score.

Box office

Despite being heavily panned, the film was a box office success, grossing $294 million and becoming Blumhouse's highest-grossing film worldwide, surpassing Split.

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