A Dumpster Fire: The Five Nights at Freddy's Movie

[@MertKayKay]

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[@Ubermensch9240]

It's getting at least one sequel..... BRACE YOURSELF.

[@FractalShoggoth]

See, the mistake they made was not hiring Nic Cage. The industry standard for modern animatronics horror movies is to have at least one Nic Cage.

[@bobcostas6272]

Cage is a great addition to literally anything

[@superfudge_69]

True, I feel like that would be a great allusion to Willy’s Wonderland.

[@dahliacheung6020]

I think they thought we couldn't handle more than one round of Cage vs Knock off Chuck E Cheese but I say BRING IT ON!!!!

[@BoxyMidnight6254]

Looks like someone watched Willy's Wonderland

[@marywinchester1322]

I will say, Nick Cage did it better. He actually fought off the animatronics like Mike should have done similarly in FNAF. Not so much being a straight bad ass, but fighting for his life like in the video game.

[@CodeNameX001]

The minute Vanessa showed up I was like: "Oh, hey... pretty sure she hasn't been born at this point in the timeline..."

[@Jack_Saint_Archive]

Yeah, the movie doesn't make sense.

[@lazariwwg8253]

The movie isn't cannon.

[@CammyHoliday]

​@@Jack_Saint_Archivebecause the movie is it's own timeline not connected to the games or the books

[@ByeByebrotha]

​@@CammyHolidayunrelated note i find it funny how everyone was defending this movie from critics saying you needed to play the games to understand it when the lore is completely different from the games cause aside from the characters names and some story elements this is completely separate from anything in fnaf.

[@dawnissistic]

@@CammyHolidayYes but why make a fnaf movie then? This movie was just to make money unfortunately, no love or passion went into this

[@weholdparties]

In the United States, fostering kids is actually a lucrative business. So much so that it's actually a bit of a problem. They obviously don't let just anyone foster, but I've lived next to several people who were able to afford big houses and nice cars stealing money from the state and collecting kids in the system like Pokemon. More kids equals more money. But you get very little if you adopt a child. So the aunt wanting to adopt the sister for money doesn't make any sense unless there's some sort of bequeathing she'll come into later.

[@DesmondDuval]

So I'm the adoptive parent of a kinship foster, meaning i adopted a family member, but through the foster system. Things are very much state-by-state, and at least in my case, (Massachusetts resident, Connecticut child) the stipend provided was adequate, but not generous. Since children are cheaper (per child) if you have multiple, it's possible that through scaling up you could turn fostering into a business, but at least where i live, the amount of training and bureaucracy just to be allowed to provide a safe home for a child in need is not insignificant. We avoided the worst of it due to being a kinship foster, but still had monthly home visits and copious extra costs (compared to my two bio-kids) to maintain our house to standards they barely expect of licensed day cares. If my family were not already in a decent financial place (homeowners, albeit with a mortgage. i work in tech and my spouse works in a leadership position in public service mental health) we could not have afforded to offer my son a safe forever home. tl;dr: I doubt most foster families are doing it for the money, though i recognize my state might be more attentive to these issues than the average, or i might have a biased experience...

[@weholdparties]

@@DesmondDuval Thank you for providing that context! I’m on the west coast. Arizona to be specific. Growing up I’ve had neighbors who basically used fostering like a cash cow. I don’t think it’s an easy thing to take care of kids in the system. I was a visitation aid for a while so I was on the other end of your experience. Arizona is so negligent, though, they lose kids so it’s actually very heartening to learn other states are better.

[@Kumikoete]

I’m a foster parent in Chicago and that money doesn’t do much. It took a couple months to even start getting paid when I took in my daughter and when the money started coming, most of it was used for reimbursement because I spent so much out of pocket just getting my Home set up so that she would be allowed to stay. Between getting everything ready for her to go to school because I literally got her during enrollment for her freshman year, she needed doctors visits and her medical card needed to be located. Her social worker was behind on a lot of those things because she got my kid out of an adopted family already. She had already been adopted by somebody, but they lost custody of her. So getting her paperwork together was a nightmare, and so everything had to come out of my pocket before I even got paid. Also, since I lived in a one bedroom at the time, I had to find a larger place so that she could have her own space or subsequently there was so much to be done in order for her to have a private section in the home that could be considered hers that just getting partitions and stuff set that she could have that space until I could can find something else was also costly. And it wasn’t even like that money went to reimburse me now that I think on it because she still had her daily care and her day-to-day cost. I’m getting her hair done, getting her clothes, getting her school supplies putting her in ROTC, and having to pay her dues, to her being in the big sister program, to her extracurricular activities. there was no extra money to live cute. What you’re thinking of is somebody who was already in a nice neighborhood, who already had money, who already was doing well enough to the point where they could take a slew of children to make additional income for whatever reason, if that is what was happening. The majority of foster care parents are literally just every day working people who want to help. We didn’t start off rich, and you damn sure not gonna get rich doing it.

[@bobcostas6272]

@@DesmondDuvalnot a single person fosters kids for themselves

[@bobcostas6272]

@@Kumikoetethis is such nonsense. They do it for money.

[@agroteraaaa]

finally, someone else who recognizes Josh Hutcherson's "trapped in a island" role edit: corrected the grammar lol

[@abbypierce4196]

TRAPPED IN AN ISLAND. How could I forget about this

[@bluebow5014]

YES We are among cultured folks

[@zerokaoningyo3509]

“trapped in A island”* 🙄 god learn some grammar you folks

[@agroteraaaa]

@@zerokaoningyo3509 fixed it, capn o7

[@SchlauSchafe]

​@zerokaoningyo3509 why are you lying? "an" goes before vowels edit: i have googled this phrase and now realize that fanfiction was written as "trapped in a island" lmao

[@eg-2585]

I think the writers just tried to achieve too much with one movie, which is a shame because you can tell so much effort was put in trying to offset the ‘weirdness’ of the FNAF franchise so as to not overload new audiences. They needed to set up the story & world of FNAF for complete newcomers while still trying to satisfy hardcore fans with familiar references, ultimately resulting in a kind of disjointed final product that doesn’t really satisfy either demographic. Unfortunately I think the approach they took just ended up being more confusing for the viewers that aren’t hardcore fans, I kind of wish they took a bolder ‘this is the insane world of FNAF, take it or leave it’ approach instead of trying to ground and over-explain everything. I have higher hopes for the second movie since the writers won’t need to spend so much time establishing the world.

[@jp-wc4ce]

if the directors wanted friendly animatronics that were also a threat, it feels like the most straightforward thing would have been for them kidnap Abby in a misguided attempt to rescue her - then we could have had the animatronics trying to kill Mike, Mike running around trying to find Abby and defend himself, and Abby (maybe by herself or maybe with Freddy) discovering the truth just in time to stop the animatronics and save Mike. then the real villain could have arrived for the final showdown. maybe the directors thought that would be cliche or too obvious or something but idk, I think it would have worked better

[@SAUglaz]

I thought Afton got in the Springtrap suit in the games because the ghost kids were afraid of it since he killed them wearing it.

[@WobblesandBean]

I thought he got in it to fool them, cuz the player character needs to put on the mascot head to escape them if they come in the room.

[@jackgrattidge6236]

I'd say they are afraid as you said, it makes most sense as it'd be the last thing they saw

[@Star_luvsyou]

Literally what i thought

[@bumblebeeproductions1673]

5:14 It was confirmed in the Fnaf movie novelization that Mike and Abby’s dad didn’t kill himself, but rather left them after Abby was born because of their mom’s depression

[@WobblesandBean]

The novel isn't the film, and it isn't the game. Supplemental material should never be mandatory.

[@blackvendaeta7104]

@@WobblesandBean But it's not. What happened to Mike's dad isn't important. But, the info is there if you're curious.

[@bumblebeeproductions1673]

@@WobblesandBean it is not mandatory. I just bought it cause Fnaf is one of my hyperfixations. I am just giving fun little info. Plus, I feel it does add stuff to the movie even if it isn’t important. Besides, in the movie he wasn’t told to have died either. Anyway, this is just my ‘the more you know’ fun fact :]

[@_kadoodles_]

​@@bumblebeeproductions1673Ignore that guy, s/he's systematically singled out almost every commenter on this vid that doesn't roast the film to pick fights with people who don't hate it. And I thought it was cool to know too, I love it when you can find little hints of last-minute script changes in movie novelizations like that! ^^

[@williamtimonen6814]

The people who makes the novelisations are often allowed enough creative freedom to add/change small details like that. Unless you mean ”in the book version of the story its confirmed he left” its entirely irrelevant to what happens in the movie.

[@CosmosSolarSystem]

Another thing i think strongly affected the movie was it was written with the intent of sequels. Thus they probably left a lot of open ends in this movie to build on it but thats not how a movie should be written for. You don’t plan for sequels, you write sequels to build off of the original.

[@CodeNameX001]

A simple script doctor that I literally thought up in this very moment: Mike doesn't need a child custody battle to raise the stakes. Make it so he has an existing repressed trauma with the pizzeria. He doesn't want to take the job but he's THAT desperate, and thinks it's a chance to confront that trauma. After his first night, he confronts the people who hired him, but they either don't know about the haunting or their just playing dumb. Still, things don't make sense for Mike, and he risks going back again. After the second night, he starts investigating. He checks existing records and newspaper archives, and one night he even risks leaving the security room. He eventually learns about Afton's disappearance and dredges up his childhood experiences. By the final night, he acts methodically, plotting his course through the halls and making his way to an office that stores records, including blueprints of the building that include a missing room. Unfortunately, he unknowingly left the power running in the security room, and the generators shut down, leading to the final big chase where he has nowhere left to hide. In the end, he makes his way to the walled-up room, and smashes it down just as he's cornered, and reveals Afton's remains in his Springtrap suit. The reveal causes the animatronics to lose it and trash the place. Mike loses the job, but they don't file a lawsuit, chalking it up to an animatronic malfunction, and the company tries to cover up what happened. Still, the event becomes news, and rumors begin to spread about what really happened. In the end, we see owners investigate the damages, but Afton's body is nowhere to be seen.

[@FormulaFanboy]

What a boring movie that would be. It's missing heart.

[@gabereell]

​@@FormulaFanboyi mean like, the synopsis for breaking bad is also boring. its all about execution.

[@SpecialInterestShow]

My real main issues with the movie were the dream scenes being kinda boring/repetitive, but mostly just that the animatronics didn't, yknow, actually attack people too much. I swear that stupid little cupcake did more attacks than FREDDY. YOU KNOW, THE MASCOT OF THE WHOLE PLACE

[@joebrown6778]

22:15. I watched this movie with my teenage daughter, and was excited to watch something we both kind of had familiarity with. I really wanted to enjoy this as much as she did, but Mert brings up my biggest issue with it here. Not trying to be offensive but the film felt like something written by a very young person. The actor playing the main bad guy was the only lifeline I had in the film, really thank goodness for him.

[@lucidheller]

it was written by the same guy who wrote the games. he’s just not a very good writer

[@Elle_Brielle_Elle]

​@lucidheller finally someone who admits it. Scott is not some master who came down from heaven to grant us the greatest story seen by mankind. He is, in fact, rather clumsy, especially recently. Sister Location had the most potential to build up a good story, but it all went to hell anyway

[@worthybutter2004]

@@Elle_Brielle_Elle He should’ve been a creative consultant on the film and left to more professional writers to get it right. Just my opinion.

[@Elle_Brielle_Elle]

@@worthybutter2004 Based opinion. His concepts are good, indeed, but the execution is usually lacking.

[@cutieapplepie]

I can gaurantee with a group of Talented Writers and a complete shift on focus, a movie about surviving 5 nights in an abandoned pizzeria, could have been truly entertaining. Spending all our time there, learning the ins and outs and corners of every room, doesnt even need to be a personal story, just need one hell of a lead actor to spend an hour and a half with and a fantastic group of writers who can write suspense, thrill and action. With a crew who can provide a tangible sense of space and time.

[@lucidheller]

i (knows all the lore) watched this with my friend (has never heard of a freddy fazbear) and pretty much the entire movie we couldn’t shut up about how we wished we were watching willy’s wonderland instead. we watched that movie directly afterwards and ohh let me tell you… the fnaf movie makes willy’s wonderland look like a MASTERPIECE

[@marinacoelho7905]

Guilt is something crazy. I, for example, made my brother cry 20 years ago after bullying him mercilessly at a birthday party. I was 15 and he 11. Nowadays, as adults, we are the best of friends, and to this day I remember him crying like the world was ending, and I want to make up for ever making him feel like that. He doesn’t remember, he forgives me when I bring it up, but I can never forgive myself. Ever. I don’t deserve forgiveness, and I cannot accept the excuses people tell me when I explain why. “You were a child,” they say, “you didn’t think he would be so hurt,” like that justifies how I treated him. I can’t undo the past, but I will always try my very best to make up for hurting him, and for that to happen, I need to hold on to this guilt. If I forget, for a moment, I might one day hurt him again, and that’s unacceptable.

[@Anna-dd4rh]

I mean this in the kindest way possible: I hope you’re in therapy. There’s a point where holding onto that kind of guilt and shame is doing far more harm to you than good in ‘protecting’ your brother from future hurt

[@Jensegaense]

You mention that the animatronics being possessed was only revealed in the third game, but that is something already strongly suggested in the very first game through posters and news articles. It was part of the franchise from the get-go

[@WobblesandBean]

Ok, and? She's still correct. It wasn't revealed until the third game. Just cuz it's "suggested" doesn't mean it's confirmed.

[@theodore9748]

​​@@WobblesandBean No, quite literally everyone knew they animatronics were possessed by ghosts by the existence of golden Freddy. Quite literally NO ONE thought otherwise. I know you're right on a technicality, but the games quite literally came out less than a year from each other. So no the confirmation was immediate so I don't want to hear any of that.

[@Pihsrosnec]

​@@theodore9748you're insane if you think golden freddy added any clarity to the first game. nobody knew what tf it was, the majority of players didn't even know it existed, it had no agreed upon name at that point and saying that golden freddy existing meant everyone knew that all the animatronics were possessed by dead children is quite frankly absurd. golden freddy didn't explain shit, there's a good chance the children were originally meant to have been killed *by* the animatronics knowing how often the canon of this series erratically changes.

[@theodore9748]

@@Pihsrosnec 1. I never said they were possessed by the children I said that they were possessed by ghosts. 2 Golden Freddy was a bad example, but it was still agreed upon by the community because of all the implications. (P.S. Ignore this point this is Cap 🧢 I concede on this. I refuse to delete or remove this point because that is for babies.) 3 My original point still stands on the fact that everyone thought the pizzeria was haunted we just didn't know what it was haunted by. 4 We are not about to act like the theory about them being possessed was finalized and confirmed in 4 months after the 1st game and a month after the release of the second. 5. Yes I am insane, but you could have kept that to yourself

[@coolioscor4082]

Also, the animatronics being possessed was not revealed in FNAF 3, it was revealed in FNAF 2 with the "Give Gifts, Give Life" minigame.

[@felisazure1820]

Perfectly explained my issues with the movie. Everything felt softened and dumbed down for a younger audience, which really clashed with it's more serious themes.

[@Idklol208]

Fr, I get it’s pg13 but that springlock failure was so fucking ass

[@cutieapplepie]

All my fnaf loving friends have zero clue of what makes a good movie and now i have a video that i can link to them when they have the GULL to tell me its a good movie

[@akechipride1580]

you seem like a really nice friend

[@winraw6113]

I would've fallen asleep in the cinema if it wasn't for the loud noises etc. I did some research and even read the comics (abysmal) to see if I was missing out on anything and just concluded the game caught on with streamers and a younger audience for a reason.

[@hunterprice1715]

It was revealed in the first game that they were possessed in the newspapers on the wall from fnaf 1.

[@SingingSealRiana]

So what, that does not really have anything to do with if a seperate piece of media is able to make sense on its own. It also is not confirmed just then in the games, just implied and the horror of the game worked compleatly differently then what the movie tried and needed to do . . . .

[@sshhrroomm]

i personally really liked the movie. to each their own. love your videos 🫶

[@Andi_Thy_Is]

You pretty much hit the nail on the head, I watched the movie and was BEWILDERED when I saw an outpour of fans who were absolutely in love with the film, and would avidly defend it with everything they had in them. I am not one to knock others down for enjoying something but I really can't help but feel too many fans are either A. Children with minimal concepts of what constitutes as and are subject to enjoy things more because they really can't tell how bad or generally unenjoyable it is at such a young age, or B. are too blindsided by the excitement of getting to see their franchise on the big screen. I was a huge fan of the series, but after being consistently let down with buggy game releases, poorly written and put together stories that only even BEGIN to become discernable through reading 20+ books, sifting through website teasers, and playing unenjoyable games that aren't finished I was ready to give up, but I still held hope that the movie could kickstart my passion for the franchise I once loved again. Safe to say the franchise as a whole has changed too much, and so have I.

[@DONG-pp9fj]

I disagree

[@Andi_Thy_Is]

@@DONG-pp9fj ur mum

[@Psychokiller2133]

I dont know how anyone could honestly see this as a good movie they all fuckin glaze it 24/7 the movie was boring it sucked it made no sense abby should have not been there vannesa wasnt even fuckin born just a whole bunch of garbage

[@nameless.artist1513]

I’m a longtime fan too and absolutely hated this movie. It was so rushed and random and WAY too kid friendly, i wish it was rated R. The fans annoy me to no end since I’d expect them to also be able to point out the awful flaws in this movie, but instead they…defend it with all their will? It makes no sense and I also hated the little girl’s part in it lol

[@Dharmondraws]

my expectations were quite low, so I thought it was fine for what it's trying to do. It's worth a watch *just* for the animatronics imo. It's also trying to stitch together a story that is intentionally told in the most vague way possible (and made up in real time) lol , i didn't personally feel like it was trying to appeal to people who aren't familiar w/ the franchise. But it is bad though, like i told my friends "if you're not a child or a huge fnaf fan, you will not enjoy this movie"

[@Reject101Personal]

This is what happens when a guy who lucked his way into success is allowed to write a Hollywood film.

[@ThisJess]

Yes I know the movie is a mess, but it serves it's purpose as what my husband and I call "gateway camp horror for kids." We can't fire up Evil Dead 2 (or similar movies) for our kids yet, but give them a film with their current obsession (my boy has a fnaf backpack and was freddy for halloween), add youtube creator cameo's, (was super sad mark couldn't play the part of the security guard in the opening) and maybe it plants a seed that will eventually bloom into an interest in more campy horror movies.

[@GenesisBoi]

I genuinely dont get why people say "it sucks it doesnt follow the exact lore" Its dumb fun enjoyment that I can see myself rewatching whenever i have the interest.

[@CC164_real]

I was so mad that it wasn't an actual HORROR movie, like they could have done so much with the white glowing pinprick eyes instead of the red eye nonsense

[@wolfietronic356]

Soldier fights in wwII 29 years after it ended

[@wittypseudonym]

the title made me a lil sad, I look forward to your perspective though!

[@rajaryan-fe1oy]

You're watching Made in Abyss?! Hold on that sanity while you have it, all the best.

[@КсенияКриштопова-в1т]

Have a good vacations! I love your essays and will look forward to see new ones. You deserve sooooo much more subscribers

[@MertKayKay]

Thanks so much! (and hello from Fiji :D)

[@Hi_Just_Fred]

FNAF is very much trying to be "family horror" now, recent game was trying to do more mature horror stuff but Scott pushed back on those elements to keep it more appealing to general audiences. Doesn't help development was a massive mess that resulted in a sloppy messy game that was also rushed. Security Breach was pretty rough, and the old games had their fair bit of jank so fans don't have high expectations for the series really.

[@SabbathSad]

The Banana Splits and FNAF are a part of a genre of horror that is oddly more interesting and exciting to me than psychological horror. Unironically.

[@LaMereACaniche]

Brainrot has gotten to you brother, you won't be forgotten.

[@Indi_51]

Woahhhhh wtfffff Banana Splits... You just unlocked a LONG FORGOTTEN CHILDHOOD MEMORY

[@HappyLarry.]

I feel like a big issue is that there's really little mystery. If you're a FNAF fan, you know everything that's happening, and if you aren't, then there's no real desire for the audience to know or care about anything in the film. If I had done it, I'd have two protagonists: a woman who lives in town, and a wandering stranger who takes the job. The FNAF audience is like the woman, and she'd wonder why he was taking the job. He'd show an understanding of the animatronics, he'd study them, but we wouldn't know WHY he stays night after night, why he choses to do what he's doing until they fight the animatronics during the weekend. That leaves a mystery for people who are both FNAF fans and total newbies. That way, in the second film, new and old fans can be invested in these characters and the universe moving forward on it's own two legs,

[@Wizardjones69]

instead of put the mci intro in the start of the movie, i think it would be better put this scene when micheal decided to play a arcade game just for fun, and the arcade is haunted, showing the incident for him, instead of sleeping in every night with no tension

[@coltonwilkie241]

The FNAF movie was quite possibly one of the worst "horror" movies I've ever watched. It's just not scary, the acting is about as bad as it can get, the characters are forgettable at best and sleep inducing at worst, the animatronics do nothing until the very end and the only positive I can think of is at least Shaggy got a payday. Too bad it was in this horrid movie. I expect nothing from Blumhouse and somehow every movie of theirs gets worse.

[@leandroconti4435]

It was a dumpster fire, but it was a BEAUTIFUL dumpster fire

[@muppetvision]

this coming out right after the kill count for FNAF is so wonderful. what a good morning.

[@lenafisher2793]

my boyfriend and I saw this movie together early on in our relationship, and we really bonded over how much we both hated it

[@ECSOrder66]

Haha, wish I could get my girlfriend into FNAF.

[@addybarrett4468]

I was so mad when I went in expecting Micheal Afton because the MAIN CHARACTER in the trailer is NAMED MICHEAL and then it just wasn’t Micheal Afton. Like what.

[@benluka1811]

Maybe Hes in the sequel

[@dominique_joly]

Both my kids know FNAF inside and out. My youngest (pre-adolescent) LOVED the movie, my teen found it "OK", and so did I. Sincerely, I was expecting it to be utter sh*t (thanks to the 90's and 00's game-to-film adaptations being total disappointments every time), so that probably helped. Ironically, my 70yo mom liked it a lot, even if she understood *nothing* of the lore lol

[@idklol7558]

I actually thought it was okay honestly! not the worst movie but still it was silly

[@idklol7558]

It could have def been better though I think if it was r rated it would’ve gone CRAZY

[@lyriian7803]

I actually liked the movie because it was silly. The game may be a horror game but there is so much dumbstuff in the Canon I would have been sad if it wasn't silly XD

[@Hi_Just_Fred]

​@@lyriian7803the games became intentionally more silly after the 5th one anyway, still horror but definitely the beginning of the turning point. Though most agree 4 is dumb for how frustrating it is and how hard the designs tried to be scary.

[@lankyceiling]

me and my family watched the movie together, and i think we might've been the target audience. people with middling to low expectations for the quality of the film, with knowledge of the lore, but notably, aren't invested in the horror of the games; its more of a joke to us. Meaning none of us were going in to it expecting an actual, well, horror movie. when we started the movie I joked about how I love me a good workplace comedy, and when the opening started with the previous night guard we all sorta went "oh yeahh, fnaf is like, a horror franchise." we didn't actually expect it to follow through with the horror tone it started with. So when it didn't, we weren't disappointed. For me the film falls solidly into the "Alright" category; it kept our attention, the effects were better than i thought they'd be, and it was fun to go "oh no frebby fabbear!! ourh ourh ourh ourh ourh ourh ourh" and crack jokes about the franchise with my brothers. (mid to late teens + our mom, in case you want to take ages into account.) tldr; i think the movie was for people who are familiar with fnaf lore, but not invested in- or dont think about it as, a *horror* franchise.

[@manofmanymasks4032]

Thank god someone (besides YMS who I also respect) isn’t praising this movie like it’s a cinematic masterpiece. I went to see this with my mother and she had no idea what fnaf was. Neither of us enjoyed the movie at all and about halfway through I became restless and wanted to leave. I found it impossible to relate to any of the characters as actual people and knowing the lore of the game I felt so pandered to hearing “I’ll be back” and “that’s just a theory”. I’m ok with references but who would, as they were being dragged away to be gutted by giant robots, say I’ll be back. Nothing felt natural to me and it really made me not care about anything that happened. However the costume department did an absolutely amazing job with the animatronics. They looked perfect I’m every way being so realistic. If they used these in an actual restaurant I would happily go see them perform. Besides that the only good thing I got out of this movie is seeing the memes of shaggy being a serial killer. Worth the torture for that alone. Have a good vacation

[@WobblesandBean]

What else can you expect from FNAF fanboys? Half of these comments are just dumb kids blindly defending the movie. They don't know what quality is.

[@icravedeath.1200]

It was originally supposed to be Stan Winston but they backed out. They were made by the Jim Henson creature shop and puppeteered by Jim Henson puppeteers. In case you were wondering who made them.

[@totallyrealcia]

I honestly didn't hate the movie but there were definitely some baffling decisions made with its plot. Idk if I would necessarily call it a dumpster fire though

[@rapdog96]

It is a dumpster fire

[@bumblebeeproductions1673]

I don’t think it’s a dumpster fire but it also isn’t a masterpiece. It’s pretty good imo, and it holds a special place in my heart even if it isn’t perfect

[@NotYourRainyDay]

Man I'll never get sick of your writing style! Once I get through this weird transitional period in my life and get my finances in order I'll def become a patron again!

[@MertKayKay]

Thank you!

[@thecrowsden]

something of note is that the main lore points do get established in the first 2 games, however they are through random chance easter eggs. the first game has a collection of rare newspaper clippings that appear on a specific camera that give heavy hints towards the bodies being in the suits and possessing the animatronics, while the second game's occasional minigames when dying showcase william afton a bit. this does highlight a seperate issue with the games where a lot of major information is hidden away or hard to come by, but in terms of general audience knowledge the major reveals of the missing kids in the suits haunting the animatronics was available in the first game.

[@Takejiro24]

I absolutely LOVED this movie from start to finish, even having a massive yet quiet fan freak out (the theatre I was in required everyone to be silent) when we finally got to see a live action springlock failure. That said, I immediately told my friend as we were leaving the theater, "As a FNAF fan of 9 years, I had a blast; but, I can DEFINITELY see why the critics don't like the film as much as the fans."

[@cerebralisk]

I think crucially the movie just doesn't need to exist given Willie's Wonderland was made.

[@garrettmurphy2447]

Willy’s Wonderland in my opinion is terrible.

[@blackfrost9011]

Hope you enjoy your time off! I’ll miss your videos! Also the trapped in a island joke made me literally laugh out loud at work

[@lewismacleod7099]

Scott Cawthorn thanks G*d for James Stephanie Sterling every single day

[@knight-of-rain]

As we all should

[@Art-zp1qg]

Omg girlie, congratulations on your vacation. Also I love the fact that you know of Trapped in a Island with Josh Hutcherson.

[@MertKayKay]

It's a cornerstone of literature

[@Fade2BlackSS]

12:40 I disagree with this. I totally think they could have made a movie that encapsulated the story and the mechanics of the game. You could have had Mike someone struggling to make ends meet and find this ad for a security job. Basically, the plot if the movie would involve him trying to uncover the mysteries of the pizzeria as the nights progress. This would give the audience the chance to do the same with the protagonist. Night 1 would be pretty chill just as it was in the game but Mike would realize that the animatronics were being a little weird, walking around and sometimes trying to get in the office. He'd have conversations with some mysterious phone guy calling and telling him things aren't what they seem and thats what would cause him to dive a bit deeper into what really happened here. The door mechanics and power suppy system would ultimately be the cause of the anxiety and scares as well as watching the cameras. I'd even keep the break-in scene from the movie. I think it'd be cool to have Mike run out of power on the final night and have to survive to find a way out as the animatronics are in full kill mode at that point ultimately leading up to Springtrap's reveal. It could totally work if Scott and Universal put some actual thought into the film. Theres a reason why majority of us watched playthroughs and followed the lore for all these years.

[@Fade2BlackSS]

​​@@quikskoprbro968 I get that. But this was in response to her saying a direct adaption that encapsulates the mechanics of the series wouldn't work. Like it's one thing to make some changes but to completely leave out a lot of what made people gravitate to the series is the complaint here.

[@Squirreltasticqueen]

As a fan i liked the movie specifically because the animatronics act like kids. "Neutered" as you say. A hulking 10 year old is frightening. The sorrow of dead kids is soooo glossed over in the games, it was more of an excuse for haunted robots, but this movie offered a look at how young and child like they are.

[@abnorth2276]

Is it though? I mean the mini games in the games focus on the crying child and so on. Also, the problem for me is that the animatronics are the scary thing in the games. Also, I don’t get why they didn’t include any section where the security guard has to check the cameras and so on. Only one night would have been plenty.

[@SinisterChris]

I work at an elementary school, and even those kids thought the movie was bad

[@carlitosdinkler5213]

Anyone thats not a die hard fan of the film, in other words a total degenerate cringelord, will find it terribly bad.

[@mrcherryhasgonemadyt9413]

​@@carlitosdinkler5213mad that your furry little film got shitted on?

[@carlitosdinkler5213]

@@mrcherryhasgonemadyt9413 Yes, its a flawless masterpiece.

[@PandaNFriends23]

Five Nights At Freddys has multiple book series, two of them being goosebumps inspired. (The whole draw a picture to remind the ghosts of who they are is a thing from one of the books. Hell if I know which.) I think the series has been trying to go more child friendly for a while. It was certainly a choice. The adult fans would have loved a rated R, disturbing eerie film. Can you imagine if the film had been from the point of view of the killer's child? Dread at learning who the mask of your father is, and who he actually is. I personally would have dug that so much. But we got what we got, it made them alot of money, so we're going to be getting another. I think there was an expectation that the mysteries will be revealed in the next film; one bit of proof for this is at the very end where it spells "find me" or whatever. There was this idea that they didn't have to tie up loose ends in this film because the next one will come along and reveal all. But, a film can't only just be questions. We needed more immediate answers and more time for the big bad guy to do big bad guy stuff.

[@yourresume373]

The thing is the games were from the perspective of the killers child, and they changed it for the movie for some reason. Gotta be one of the worst changes the movie made.

[@stackthelions]

Thank you so much, finally some good opinions about this movie. Everyone seemed to love it and I barely had fun.

[@emmelineart]

as much as i personally enjoyed the movie as a nostalgia trip and a fun excuse to have some movie popcorn (with one of the most excited theater audiences ive ever seen,) i totally agree with you that critically, it’s not very good. i think it’s one of those movies where your personal enjoyment and memories of the franchise really matters and your mileage may vary. while i realize that it would be pretty complicated, i honestly wished that they had been a little more faithful to the original games lore. vanessa being an afton kid REALLY threw me for a loop, and mike not being one was kind of disappointing. i was literally waiting for a third act twist where it turns out mike had so much trauma around the kidnapping of his brother that he completely fabricated most of it in his mind.

[@lazariwwg8253]

girl im sorry but it did not take three games till we knew the suits were possessed. it was heavily implied in fnaf one and confirmed in fnaf two. Afton wore the suit when murdering the kids, but didn't get springlocked until years after the fact. his suit was moistened by rain because he was in an abandoned pizzeria. the drawing spell thing is foreshadowed through out the whole movie. Also the concept of suits being used for murder was also introduced in fnaf two. i went into this movie with the expectation that it would one, not be cannon. two, that it would have tons of camp and also be kid friendly. i know its different in the uk, but in the us its PG-13, which means that people 13 and older can go without supervision, but 12 and younger can go with parents. it is also established that the animatronics are 100% friendly with children, and it would be hella on brand for them to make a pillow fort with the children. yes the Afton reveal was rushed and i would have loved to see more of him, i didnt care because the movie puts way more focus on Vanessa. lastly, the fnaf movie has been in development for YEARS and for waiting this long for a movie i was extremely happy with it. was it a masterpiece? no. but neither was Scott's (might have spelled his name wrong) first book or game. i love your content, and no hate to you, but this was a movie for fans and a younger audience. it was never going to be a extremely violent horror film.

[@WozzWaldo]

Thank you, i feel like one of the few people that really thought the execution of the fnaf before was incredibly sub par.

[@vizzzyy190]

genuinely i cant tell if i love this movie because i know everything about fnaf lore, or if i just love awful movies, or both. its like the room, objectively horrible, but so entertaining

[@tweekkat]

As objectively dogshit as the movie may be, I will never forget being in the theater with my best friend in a crowd of nerds who brought their Freddy plushies with them and hearing the crowd start breaking down in laugher, confusion, and general bewilderment when the killer robots started building a pillow fort with Abby. I went in to the theater (on day 2 of its release) trying to get immersed and take the film seriously, then I kinda lost hope when I saw the animatronics start moving and putting on silly angry faces, and just laughing the rest of the way through the film with an audience that had completely given up on trying to take "tHe LoRe" any kind of seriously. Truly a magical experience, the film will forever be a 10/10 in my heart

[@asteriondeltoro124]

TIL: The correct punchline to the "Opinions are like assholes" joke is NOT, in fact, "and they all stink."

[@JeanMarceaux]

Either one works

[@brookethebookquintana]

I think the best (only way?) to enjoy this movie was in the way my friends and I did: all autistic, none of us really that into the games/lore so none of us cared too much, wholly interested in lore/cultural impact of the games especially in the neurodivergent community, and in it for the memes. We ate dinner and enjoyed it while not caring too much but we knew enough to be excited for the Easter eggs.

[@wildcutecosplay]

it felt like they tried to mash games 1-3 with the silver eyes book and it didn't work. I really wish they would have just adapted the silver eyes novel for the screen as it would have made for a much tidier story. because the whole haunted robots thing and afton reveal was done and it was done better in the book, and the scenes that were pulled from the book, were some of the better ones in the movie at least for me. (I'm just talking about the first book here. I do not recognize the sequels,) But because they wanted to have characters like mike and Vanessa, and having elements like the training tapes, in an attempt to pull in both fans of the new games and the old ones, that things got messy, as well as trying to explain everything to people who hadn't touched the games/books in their lives. I will give the film one thing though even if it works a little bit against the horror of it all. How the animatronics interact with Abby. That's something that is stated fairly early on in the games, they are nice to kids, but not great with adults. And it was actually kinda nice to actually have that shown in some capacity.

[@izznt]

Heh heh , MertVayCay 😅 I hope you have so much fun

[@TheGingerDoctor]

Even knowing fully the franchise had devolved into pandering entirely to the grade school crowd, headed by Scott "Let's see how long I can keep the bit going" Cawthon, even after he promised to step back when it was revealed that a community largely made up of furries and queers were effectively paying for a certain presidential candidate whose entire platform is based on inciting violence against them, and a milquetoast half-apology, somehow I was still disappointed by how bad the film was. Also apparently it went through several shit scripts and entire studios to get to this point so. Every part of this movie is "hey hey! Hey Gametheory! Look at this! Ooo what could this be! Haha look i bet you recognize this!!" Instead of a cohesive narrative. Also the Springtrap suit just looks ... godawful. They just translated the model of it into a suit. The damage on it looks intentional, part of the design, instead of wear and tear from being in use since the fucking 80s. The whole thing was very cartoony and childish, despite being marketed as a horror movie in the promotional materials. Teens and adults aren't allowed anything fun that isn't also about sex, drugs, and alcohol anymore.

[@lunarro7]

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[@qew_Nemo]

I can't express how excited I am for a David Cage-thon done by you!

[@MertKayKay]

Thanks Nemo! I am writing the Heavy Rain portion atm

[@qew_Nemo]

@@MertKayKay Press X to KAYKAYSON 🥰

[@Hi_Just_Fred]

"Matthew Lillard, a man who can do no wrong" Cept for that one time he tried to push NFT stuff, but that's a grand majority of celebrities at this point.

[@ptlemon1101]

I absolutely get your point. This movie appealed more to the fans than newcomers, even if they tried to make it newcomer friendly. I was also confused why Willian was wearing the suit but I guess that's his serial killer outfit. In the books, he passes as a security guard called Dave and he indeed says the suit allows him to move through the pizzeria with the animatronics by making them think he's one of them. Still, MatPat cameo and the LT song made it worth it lol

[@santaisntblind2073]

My issue with the game is that they claim to base the movies off of the first 3 games, yet have springtrap die in the same exact movie.. also, including vanessa was a strange choice considering she was a security breach character. Id argue they shouldve went for the afton family plot and try to improve on it than the games did.

[@wolfietronic356]

This movie contains the birth of springtrap Not his death

[@lizabee484]

Ooo World Traveling Pink Haired Mert arc has finally begun!! Good for you girl, have fun! Loved the fanfic reference, god I have to know if you used to read them back in the day, and what your favorite fandom was, if so.

[@GamingVegetto]

Movie makes zero sense and is bad 1. Vanessa being Williams daughter??? 2. Had a big chance to make Mike (forgot his last name) mike afton to at least make it more interesting and turning point 3. Too centered around the little girl 4. Honestly goofy, being p13 ruined the movie from being scary at all 5. The spring lock scene could’ve been way more graphic. 6. Golden Freddy appearing makes no sense 7. The damn dream sequences

[@BobaIsBees]

Just finished watching all of your Telltale's The Walking Dead review videos and thought they were hilarious! Glad to know your other videos are also great!

[@MertKayKay]

Thank you Boba! :o

[@afterdinnercreations936]

I tried watching this on Peacock, but stopped as soon as the 2nd act ended, I was so bored. Tell me when they made a Baldi's Basics movie.

[@Keeereeejou]

the most fun part of this movie was watching it opening night in a full cinema full of fans of the games who absolutely loved it

[@Maya-hw2ny]

omg ong ing omg omg mert videoooo i hope u enjoy your vacation trip thing ♡♡♡

[@coyote_foxtrot]

I think the fnaf franchise’s acclaim to horror has been slightly diminished since “seabonnies” entered the canon.

[@wolfietronic356]

Seabonnies is a non canon story

[@calcoffey5495]

NEW MERTKAYKAY JUST DROPPED LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO

[@abox7825]

I don't think the franchise was suited for film. We all like to say Fnaf has the most complex story ever, but it's really told through like 10 minutes of 8-bit minigames and by cheating out if bounds in them - those are the story beats that matter if translating this to a movie. And yet I still agree this film somehow needed longer to hit all the points. Good video! Aslo, side note because I legitimately can't stop thinking about it and nobody will listen to me anywhere else: I liked the part where the lady police officer encourages abigail to play with the animatronics while Josh Hutcherson clearly doesn't want her to. Then later the same night she says "don't you dare bring her back here, Josh Hutcherson, it was bad that you did that!" Like, fuck you lady police officer with an unusual schedule where the police don't check in and radio you for spending your whole shift in one location. I find this is a microcosm for her whole character: Knowingly and willingly assists a child murderer for decades, but I guess she is free spirited and sort of kind (ignore the fact its implied her kindness was part of the ruse in the finale to help kill people like Mike who find out too much), so let's just forgive her. The families she hurt don't need justice, but she does because she is a really deep, dynamic and complex character. And also she is sad about it.

[@Avanzer068]

They should’ve not have Venessa or Abby in the first place and focus only on Mike like the 1st game before all the extra lore and focus on a man desperate for a job.

[@poog1236]

I’m glad to have found a fellow critic of this movie

[@sketchnscribs1465]

I personally enjoy the movie however i dont think it's that good like, AS a movie. Definitely one of those guilty pleasure things for me. I always love watching your reviews though. Perfect background noise

[@very_nervous133]

Yes!!!!! New video-essay from one and only!!!!

[@FTZPLTC]

I think the biggest problem with the movie, and the reason its problems run so deep, is that it really wants to be a movie both for casual audiences and devoted FNAF fans... and you can't do that when so much of the movie hinges on a Big Surprise Reveal, because casual audiences won't care and devoted fans won't be surprised. There was no way that William Afton wasn't going to be in the movie, so even if a fan somehow dodged the fact that they were completely open about Lilard being cast to play him, as you say, you'd know that the one male character who isn't the protagonist is going to be him. I don't think that's a fixable problem really. What maybe could have worked would be to ditch the early Lilard scene, and have some background plot about the founder of the restaurant having gone missing, maybe have some photos of him... so that him showing up in the third act would at least have some weight for casual viewers. I think Lilard's absence from most of the movie really ended up screwing up the reveal, because his scene is given so much time and importance that even a casual viewer would assume that it's going to come up again. The longer we go without seeing Lilard again, the more obvious it is that he's going to show up. Thinking about it, maybe giving him some involvement with the aunt could've worked? Like, maybe she shunts Mike towards this job with his help? I dunno, I don't know why I'm trying to fix this movie but I do like trying to figure out if it's possible. I'm basing all this on the assumption that you'd only have one movie to work with, as the movie had been in development hell for a long time, and I don't know if anyone making it would have been sure that they'd get a sequel. But I do broadly agree that it would've been better to make one film that leans harder into horror and leaves more of the plot mysterious for newcomers, basically recreating the demand for a sequel that the early games created by only half-telling their story.

[@DONG-pp9fj]

I disagree

[@strangewish5051]

I never even wanted to see the movie--I got free tickets on a whim, and was in it for surface level fan service and tasty practical effects; I actually had a blast. You're so right that there was a lot of missed potential and confusing decisions.

[@yidingliu8663]

A pleasant surprise.

[@elizabethanderson1120]

It fills me with profound joy that I’m not the only one who contextualizes Josh Hutcherson exclusively in relation to his being in an island. 😂

[@TheTarturo]

Before watching the video: Have a nice trip! I hope you get the R&R you need and deserve! Looking forward to refreshed Mert in May!

[@MertKayKay]

Thanks Tarturo!

[@Rose_Haw]

I liked it, I'm sure it could have been better, but i still like it

[@justaguy2182]

If you’re not a diehard fan of the games, it’s not very good. I can even admit that as a fan. It’s very much a movie for fans, so if you go in with little or no knowledge of the series, it’s confusing and feels very much like a B movie. Even if you do know the series by heart, in my opinion, it felt like one big “HEY LOOK AT THIS REFERENCE!” The entire time. Other than Easter eggs, the movie doesn’t really have much substance. If you remove all the references, it feels very much like a by the numbers movie to me.

[@maitt1454]

I have been a "fan" of this franchise for so long now, but its clear Scott doesnt give a shit about making scary things anymore. fnaf games were never perfect, I wouldnt even say they were exactly good games, but scott TRIED, now FNAF has transformed into a dumster fire that disgustingly tires to appeal to children and manchilds that consume everything fnaf related, even if it sucks dick (fnaf security breach) I have seen fractions of the movie, because I genuiely have no interest in watching it, and its just what you would expect, a pointless movie that forgets what made the series interesting in the first place.

[@Avanzer068]

True when I saw the teaser I thought it was gonna have the tone of the 1st game instead I got “adventures with animatronics” movie

[@gingermint1230]

I don’t think that’s the case at all. If anything, a lot of the fanbase consists of loyal fans who genuinely love FNaF, despite its many flaws and changes. Scott has shown time and again that he cares a lot about the franchise. He always has. The movie may not be a masterpiece, but it genuinely resonated with the majority of its community, and I think that’s pretty awesome. (Besides, a lot of the community is there for the lore. Which arguably, is the horror factor. Focusing on the atrocities of a horrible man, and the residue of his crimes impacting the lives of many even after his death.) Like I get not liking the movie, and I can definitely understand the reasoning as to why, but spouting lies that are not true at all, is pretty crazy.

[@maitt1454]

@@gingermint1230 Fnaf is a flawed game franchise, it has a flawed story and flawed gameplay and I am well aware of that, but the thing is that I dont mind that in specific, I mind that they abandoned the thing it made it good in the first place. I have been here since the very beggining, I have seen this fandom develop, and if there is one thing that seems to get worse and worse, is the standars this people have. The lore is a complete clusterfuck and this is the first time I have hear someone say its "the horror factor", it was never about the events that happened, but the way they were presented. The death minigames and the intermissions in fnaf 2, the way to get the good ending in fnaf 3, the secret minigames in fnaf 6, but this is accompanied by a major thing that made this games scary: the atmosphere and gameplay.

[@addambelmont3050]

This movie tried so hard to make a simple story to please the FNAF fans that it forgot to be a scary horror movie.

[@theclownlyimp]

You should check out The Insightful Llama's rewrite of the story. They start from the ground up and tie together plot threads quite effectively. Plust it's actually anxiety inducing for the right reasons.

[@OnlyLumi4ever]

You've been spoiling us with videos lately. Thank you. ❤

[@MsamaB3]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this film, MKK! I hope you enjoy your vacation. Be safe! Take care! Have fun!

[@outlast_the_night7727]

When I saw the opening scene with the security guard, I thought to myself this was going to be a great, suspenseful and delightfully gruesome adaptation, and I wish the movie had continued with that same tone. Ultimately, it felt like they couldn't commit to a full-on adult horror release (which would make sense, given the lore of the game series), and tried to fluff it down just enough to cater to a much younger audience at the same time, which ended up not working out at all. As someone who also spent more time consuming and thinking about FNAF lore than I would care to admit, I repeatedly tried to put myself in the shoes of someone who had no idea at all and walked into the theatre with no clue what to expect - and in both cases, I found the approach to the lore incredibly disappointing and even confusing. Fully developing the lore over a series of movies would have been ambitious, but allowed for an INCREDIBLE pay-off. With this first movie, it felt rushed and at times too detailed, then not detailed enough. And I totally agree that the "twist" of the animatronics being possessed by the vengeful ghosts of children who lost their lives in one of the most tragic ways imaginable fell disappointingly flat, too soon. Overall, the absolute biggest letdown for me personally was that not ONCE did we get to hear the iconic music box rendition of 'Carmen' - besides the awesome animatronics, it was the ONLY hope and expectation I had going into the film, and I was still let down 😭💔

[@Tubemansi]

I JUST finished watching "Made In Abyss" with my brother. Can't wait to hear you talk about it! Oh. This video was good too. 😛

[@BrightBrandi]

I love Matthew Lillard but his agent needs to start looking out for him a little better

[@chocomelo454]

Gasps I actually rlly liked the movie. It made me do the dancing cat move

[@cyber_runner]

As someone who is a big fan of fnaf, I genuinely did love this movie. Sure, it couldve been better and more scarier, but I think this was made for fans, and as a fan I had a great time. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

[@bowtiefox]

ok, idea if they'd kept it to two movies, as you said they could have kept the lucid dreaming thing and have the reveal at the end be that he connects with the souls of the kids in the suits finding that out as the "twist" for new audiences while giving that plot a point with a pay off they're children so in the second film you can use it as a conversation between the two, given that they wouldn't remember or understand much of their deaths, a mascot rabbit killed them in their prospective... id remove the custody thing tho, have him hire a baby sitter and make that strain their financial situation more while this is the only job he can find rn?