Five Nights at Freddy's

"Can you survive five nights?"

2023 1h 50m EN

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7.3

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33%

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METACRITIC

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5.4

IMDB

★7.3TMDB · 5,220🥫33%Rotten Tomatoes●33Metacritic★5.4IMDB · 135,714

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Synopsis

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Recently fired and desperate for work, a troubled young man named Mike agrees to take a position as a night security guard at an abandoned theme restaurant: Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. But he soon discovers that nothing at Freddy's is what it seems.

“Can you survive five nights?”

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Cast

Josh Hutcherson
Mike
Piper Rubio
Abby
Elizabeth Lail
Vanessa
Matthew Lillard
Steve Raglan / William Afton
Mary Stuart Masterson
Aunt Jane
Kat Conner Sterling
Max
David Lind
Jeff
Christian Stokes
Hank

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Emma Tammi
Writers: Scott Cawthon, Chris Lee Hill, Tyler MacIntyre
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Grossed $298M — a 14.9× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 3 years ago.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Five Nights at Freddy's Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

CAST

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289+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Emma Tammi, shot by Lyn Moncrief. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Taylor Stewart. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Andrew Wesman shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Josh Hutcherson and Piper Rubio and Elizabeth Lail carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Emma Tammi directs. Lyn Moncrief behind the camera. Taylor Stewart scores. Andrew Wesman cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Grossed $298M — a 14.9× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
2Released 3 years ago.
3Part of the "Five Nights at Freddy's Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4289+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
5Directed by Emma Tammi, shot by Lyn Moncrief. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Taylor Stewart. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Andrew Wesman shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Josh Hutcherson and Piper Rubio and Elizabeth Lail carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Can you survive five nights?".
10IMDB entry: tt4589218 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 20 themes, including "night shift", "child murder", "restaurant", "custody battle".
12Released under 16 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Lyn Moncrief
Original score: Taylor Stewart
Editing: Andrew Wesman
Production design: Marc Fisichella
Costume design: Natalie O'Brien
Makeup / hair: Ashley Levy
VFX supervisor: Jonathan Dearing
Sound: P.K. Hooker
Stunt coordinator: Andy Dylan
Runtime: 110 min · 1h 50m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $20,000,000
Box office: $298,267,333
Return: 1491% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)
Rotten Tomatoes: 33% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 33/100
IMDB rating: 5.4/10 · 135,714 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

24 nominations total

Part of

Five Nights at Freddy's Collection

A series of movies based on the video games of the same name by Scott Cawthon.

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Emma Tammi

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What people are saying

bradley2023-10-26
★ 9/10
FNAF was great, Kinda wish it had blood, Every kill was offscreen or really dark and you cant really see the kill.
MustachedMovieMan2023-10-27
★ 7/10
I don't really get what all the negative reviews are about. It's not the best movie ever or that I've seen this year, but I still had a good time watching it. The story was interesting, it had some scary parts, some humorous parts, lots of tension, was well-acted, well-shot, and the effects (both practical and CGI) were well-done. Also, the production design and creature design was great. A movie doesn't have to be restricted to either being "the best" or "horrible." The theater I saw it in was packed, the audience was responsive and seemed to be loving it, and I myself enjoyed it. I didn't really play the games, but I was definitely engaged in the lore of some of the MatPat Game Theory videos I saw. And I could tell from audience reactions that there were some cool things in the movie if you knew the games. That's not a negative, to be clear. It's always really cool when filmmakers put things in movies that true fans would catch and geek-out about. As far as being a viewer who didn't really play the games, I enjoyed the movie. And while I think knowing the games/lore would have definitely enhanced my enjoyment and enthusiasm, I wouldn't say it lacks as a movie or that the games are "required viewing" for those who haven't played them. Everything's explained pretty well. As far as the horror aspect goes, it is PG-13; I saw some reviews complaining about the lack of gore... It's PG-13. C'mon guys. But, that being said, I thought they still did a good job with the horror elements that were present. I also really liked the trio of main characters. I thought Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, and Elizabeth Lail all did a good job. Also, I'm glad Josh Hutcherson is back. I hope he'll continue to be in more movies.
CinemaSerf2023-11-02
★ 5/10
Didn't Josh Hutcherson used to be famous? Well here he is reduced to the role of the struggling brother of "Abby" (Piper Rubio). Their aunt (Mary Stuart Masterson) is determined that this hapless bag of bones isn't fit to look after the young girl - after he takes out a visiting father in the fountain of a shopping mall and gets fired; so "Mike" has to get another job! Opportunities are thin on the ground, but there is a vacancy doing the security night shift and an old, derelict, pizza parlour. How hard can it be? Well a meeting with the enigmatic police officer "Vanessa" (Elizabeth Lail) should have rung alarm bells, and when he has to take "Abby" there for one overnight shift - well it's soon clear that this place has secrets to keep and that it knows how to manipulate the hopes and fears of "Mike" and his sister. Can they stay sane and focussed long enough to survive this maze of malevolent mechanical bunnies? I'm afraid the presence of Matthew Lillard never helps a film, and here is no different - this is just a rather nonsensical attempt at a spooky mystery that certainly has nothing to make you jump. Rubio is actually quite decent, but there's isn't enough else happening to compensate for the very slow build up, surfeit of dialogue and frankly rather silly underlying premiss. I suppose as Halloween gets bigger and bigger, we are going to get more and more of these mediocre offerings - but despite it's more prominent cast, this just belongs on the Horror channel at 2am.