I watched the FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S movie
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FNAF
FNAF movie
five nights at freddy's movie
golden freddy
josh hutcherson
Matthew Lillard
bonnie
yellow rabbit
spring bonnie
foxy pirate
chika
william afton
freddy fazbear
MatPat fnaf
coryxKenshin
phantom freddy
fnaf ghost kids - Zábava
SORRY if I got anything drastically wrong - I got pulled down so many different lore paths and debates online. Feel free to share other theories or things I missed!
you missed the important springtrap mpreg detail from one of the books
Can't comment on lore but maybe a clue as to why Lillard has the alias he did - Raglan is the last name of Oliver Reeds psychiatrist character in David Cronenberg's The Brood, another film about children controlled by monstrous parental figures and dysfunctional families. Could have just been a throwaway ref, tho if the theory about creating a "proper family" is correct, that could be hinting at it
The kids let Abby go but they'll probably recruit another kid, probably one who was also killed?
Its impossible to make a FNAF video without being wrong about something even if youre matpat or dawko LOL dont worry you did a great job handling a beloved franchise with care
If you do want the timeline of the game, I’m sure you might have already heard of this but MatPat on the Game Theorists channel has an ultimate timeline for Fnaf
So, Mark actually addressed his exclusion from this FNAF movie. The directors or producers did reach out to him and ask him to be in it! Unfortunately, it was being filmed at the exact same time that he was filming his own upcoming movie, Iron Lung. Even though his role in FNAF would've only needed a few days of filming, he couldn't risk being off his own set for that long, so he had to turn it down. It sucks, I would have LOVED to see Markiplier in this movie, but maybe we can see him in a future one if they continue the story.
Apparently, he was offered the role of the security guard at the beginning, which would have been perfect.
As sad as I am that he didn't get to be in the movie, it made so much more sense to me that he couldn't ditch Iron Lung's filming for this once I found out he'd be the opening security guard, that would have been so many more days on set than I thought at first.
@@netizen_m3919he was! if you see the matpat video on his movie cameo you'll see that mark was actually cast as the security guard, they had his picture on the costume room as part of the cast but his schedule didn't allow for filming fnaf
Considering how much cash this moving is raking in, it's almost a sure thing we'll get a follow-up! I hope we see Mark, and also Corey because he was *SO DAMN FUNNY.*
I kinda guessed that was the situation- that he was just busy. Man's been doing a lot lately.
I love how Vanessa was like "you must have left a door unlocked" when she was literally there, watching him lock everything up.
literally like i thought i was the only one who noticed that
Well I think Vanessa was probably the one hiding the bodies for her dad so she knew it wasn't his fault I think she was trying to scare him away from the job by blaming him cause she knew her dad's plan that's just a guess though
Very gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss of her
she really said "gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss"
her writing was honestly so unbelievable. when the animatronics decide they like abby and the whole fort scene happens, vanessa is like yayyy im so glad your getting along and then when they get outside shes like if u ever bring her here again i will SHOOT YOU
The first night is always the easiest.
Him sleeping through it is literally the movie saying, "You could beat the first night in your sleep."
Markiplier did it without even trying.
im pretty sure you can't lose the first night in the first game, the animatronics turn on so late in the night they can't make it to the office in time
"The first night is never usually that bad in any of the games."
actually loving Amanda trying to explain the movie without knowing a single about the franchise
She did pretty good to 😂
i went to see it with my mom and i tried to explain the lore of the series during the hour long car ride and i got up to the start of the 5th game when i just verbally shut down 🙃 also i forgot to even talk about springlocks so i had to explain it to her after leaving the theater haha
I'm not even into fnaf i just happen to know everything about it, too bad i couldn't finish explaining 5 cuz it's the most interesting to me
I'm surprised there wasn't more focus on security cameras given how much that's part of the game.
yeah! just doing a bit of research around the game I thought they could have had a ton of fun with that and then they just didn't - I mention that at the end of the vid actually
I thought they incorporated it well in the beginning to see the animatronics, but at the end they could have used them for a more interesting last battle in the finale, since Vanessa could have helped, they were incredibly underutilized in the movie
Does anybody wanna watch a movie about looking at security cameras??
@@rewtytewty8258 well the found footage genre is build around pretty much that premise so there's an audience for that
@@rewtytewty8258No. they think they do, but they don’t
I am still absolutely cackling loving the fact that this is the thing that brought Josh Hutcherson back into the spotlight.
Fr
Haven't seen him since Mockingjay
i also always remember him as the child actor that voice acted the kid in the eng dub of Howl’s Moving Castle (along with Christian fricking Bale, mike wazowski and the purple car from Cars 2). I’ve never watched the sub bc of that lmao
@@renoirrrwhaaaaat omg I knew about Bale bc I mean, yeah hot voice, but Hutchinson! Huh
He's no longer Trapped In A Island
Future Man would like a word
I’m an older fan and I think the movie was fun. What the lore purists forget is the very first game didn’t have much story wise. Scott didn’t expect it to blow up like it did. He got lucky and was able to use the one big mystery he had in the original game which was the murdered kids. The lore is an absolute shit show. Almost a decade later and no one can agree on anything and Scott refused to commit to much of anything story wise. The movie team worked with what they could and we got a super fun and campy thriller.
Also an edit: Markiplier was apparently supposed to be the guard that got killed in the beginning but he’s been super busy with his own movie adaptation Iron Lung.
yes the og didnt have much lore but now there's so much more a feature could build off of. Seems like a lot of missed opportunities imo
"The lore is an absolute shit show. Almost a decade later and no one can agree on anything and Scott refused to commit to much of anything story wise." lmaooo tru
@@KristylikeKrisT I do want to add that I don’t mean to come off harsh with my comment. It’s just the truth. Scott barely nailed down any actual story and really feels like he leaned on the community to piece something together that’s now a confusing mess. It’s interesting for sure but damn Scott.
I'm something of a newcomer to FNAF (been following MatPat's theories for years but I only got into the lore after the trailer dropped); and I can confirm FNAF having "lore purists" is absurd, your description of the lore is 100% correct and I'm not even sure if there *is* a canon lore (Sammy doesn't exist in the games and I think he's a false memory in the books and yet some people use it in game-related stuff, for example)
@@MakiPcryeah, I've heard some people say that the books are likely an alternate universe?? honestly that's the easiest way to explain how it's not aligned with the games at all lol
24:25 I think the idea of them using electricity against the animatronics comes from another FNAF game called 'Sister Location' in which you basically use "electric shocks" to force the animatronics in that game to behave a certain way by hurting them, so animatronic do indeed seem to be affected by electricity to some degree.
Also in the games, I think that Golden Freddy is far more "ghost-like" than the others because the final child, often referred to as "the one you [William Afton] shouldn't have killed" wasn't stuffed inside the suit but rather just possessed the suit. The Golden Freddy suit was paired with the Golden Bonnie/Rabbit suit so it also has springlocks, and so without the springlocks being locked because no one is wearing the suit, the spirit cannot move the suit. That's why the spirit teleports both in the film and game and more so just "appears" like the suit.
Also from 26:37 the whole "family" aspect makes a whole lot more sense in the games since in the games William's daughter, Elizabeth, ends up being killed by an animatronic and his son, who doesn't canonically have a name, gets killed when his teenage son... Michael, or rather "Mike", pulls a prank and ends up accidentally getting his brother killed by the Golden Freddy animatronic. So many assume that Willliam used the dead children to try and figure out how to resurrect his children since both Elizabeth and his unnamed son (who is commonly called "the Crying Child") end up possessing animatronics themselves, with the Crying Child being one of two spirits inside of Golden Freddy. So yeah, in the games Mike is actually William's son and is trying to free the spirits and stop William, or at least that's the most subscribed to theory.
i assumed that the elctricity kinda overloaded the system causing the joint controls to lock up and become unresponsive kinda like how it makes the human muscle go haywire and spasm uncontrollably.
I thought the crying child's name was Evan?
@elliethecryptidunicorn6144 Not confirmed, but it is a theory with good evidence behind it, so it's a pretty widely subscribed to theory.
@@elliethecryptidunicorn6144it's just a headcanon/theory that a lot of people believe, but there's no confirmed name for him.
@@elliethecryptidunicorn6144that’s just a theory….A GAME THEORY
MATTHEW LILLARD SUPREMACY
For those of you playing at home, this is Lillard’s second role as a guidance counselor.
@@johnracine4589when was his first time?
Absolutely yes
@@jarrodedson5441”Fat Kid Rules the World”
🙏🧎
As someone who has followed FNAF for a long time, I enjoyed the movie for what it was. Good references and some sequences were spot on. My biggest complaint is more from a storytelling aspect, where the main character isn't really connected to the titular location. We spend so much time on Mike's survivor's guilt, but he's only connected to Freddy's by happenstance. I think the narrative would have been stronger if his little brother had gone missing at Freddy's (not some random forest in Nebraska) and Mike was working to figure out the mystery for himself (while bringing the audience along for the ride). Needing Vanessa to info-dump the mystery on the audience felt so weak.
The fan theory that his brother is the ghost in the Balloon Boy toy or is going to be The Puppet in a sequel would have better connected the main character IMO
Even if its a little ridiculous, its more in line with FNAF lore's ridiculousness
@@SierraThorne - Definitely! To be honest, I wouldn’t have even cared if Garrett turned out to not be one of the animatronics, just as long as his disappearance was more directly related to Freddy’s. Like sure, the forest has interesting options for visual stuff, but it’s so random for Afton to disappear the child there. The movie felt like a character coming-to-terms story set in FNAF, rather than it being a FNAF story.
Hopefully the sequel will be more connected. :)
I think they just couldn't come up with a good way to explain the premise of fnaf if they didn't have Vanessa there. How do they introduce things to the audience if Mike is already familiar with Fazbear's? It isn't great, but I understand why they did it. Especially since Scott isn't the best at anything involved with writing
@@TheLokibringer - I mean, he was young when Garrett was taken. I don't understand why the concept wasn't "Mike finally gets back to Freddy Fazbear's, works out a deal with the 'owner' to be the new security guard, spends his nights trying to uncover what happened all those years ago." Vanessa can still be the conflicted Afton child: she is told to keep Mike from figuring things out, but she ends up helping him instead. His focus on learning what happened to Garrett still risks the life of Abby.
He could have found old news articles stuffed around the pizzaria or spent the nights doing research rather than constantly dream-diving. I don't think the premise needed to be told to the audience; it could have been shown more naturally.
@@Rikrobat Oh, it for sure could have been done better- hell, I'd have been happier with it if they just hadn't named the cop Vanessa. But there's just such a low bar for the plot that I don't really blame it for being bad
Can I just say... Josh's acting is phenomenal. The facial expressions are perfect.
All of the actors were really good
Abby: “Can we go visit them?” Mike: *intense side eye*
Incredibly funny to me that Amanda kept having to google things that seemed weird and finding out that they're references 😂
Markiplier was offered the role as the first secuirty guy you see in the opening scene, but he was working on his own movie, so had to turn down the role.
That probably would have made the tone very different if Markiplier was the first one to be off in the movie
@@Graycata yeah honestly a little glad the movie didn't open with a youtuber cameo. love mark but having him be the first character we see would've messed with things.
NOOOOO especially since he named his dog after Chica… I would have loved to see him get killed off by her in a cameo.
Could have had Mark be phone guy from the first game.
My mom actually asked me to watch this when it came out on Peacock. I wanted to wait to watch it in theaters, but she was so excited I guess. This godforsaken movie also sparked me to watch a nearly 9-hour long video about the timeline and now it's a common household topic since I'm the "expert" in the house. This movie was really fun IMO. The lore changes are odd but it makes sense for the change of media.
Yeah, some lore changes are necessary or there wouldn't be any mystery to the movie.
I agree. I don't think the games lore could have been properly told in a 2 hour movie. This version made it cleaner albeit less interesting imho
OMG same, why do I do this👀 The lore is just so fucking weird though it's like a car crash, can't look away
I mean, I haven't watched that video but I've been in this roller-coaster ever since before Markiplier played the first game, so I'd say I get a pass. That being said, THANK GOD FOR THE CHANGES someone PLEASE take away that story from Scott Cawthon, he has convoluted this way more than anything I've ever experienced.
@@LunaWitcherArt without scott's madness fnaf would not be as brain destroyingly fun
I have never personally played any FNAF game, but I've watched countless CZcamsrs playing it. I find the lore incredibly interesting because it's so full of plot holes and nonsense it's kinda fun!
I love it because the longer it goes the less sense it makes. Fighting over retcons is peak entertainment 🤣
I’ll defend the fort scene because it shows that their souls are still kids, even under the animatronics or Afton’s control. It is a little silly, but I liked it
Anyway, great review :)
I actually think it's an improvement. In the game they do state that the animatronics attack the guards because they view them as the same as William, so the idea that they attack adults, but become playful with children (I mean, that's what they do during the day, entertain kids) makes perfect sense.
@@shadycatz85although it does lead to the question of why they never hurt Vanessa seeing how she visits without Abby being there at one point, I’m guessing it’s a situation where she’s grown up with them and has gained their trust
The one thing I don’t understand and can’t comprehend is how the idea of Afton controlling them came about. Even with the idea that pictures hold power for children, how does being friends mean they obey his commands? I could understand them not attacking him because of the picture, as dumb as that idea is, but not him being able to command them.
@@paytonyoder1260 yeah, he shouldn't be able to command them. Them fearing and wanting to kill him makes way more sense. A good way to go about them trying to take Abby would be if they viewed Michael as the same as William and thought they were "saving" her from him.
@@shadycatz85 well the picture is supposedly why they were friendly to Afton. But even using that idea I don’t see how he’d be able to command them.
I think a couple of my movie critic friends nailed it when they watch this movie: “As a movie critic, this was not a great movie. Was it the worst? Definitely not, but not very good. BUT as a FNAF fan? This was freaking *AWESEOME* “
But as a 44 yr old who just likes weird ass horror movies but has no history with FNAF, will I get anything out of it?
@@cmmosher8035its not exactly a horror, but its funky! You might like it, but its not a guarantee.
@@cmmosher8035I’d say you’d get about as much as this youtuber did. She did a pretty good job pointing out the oddities that don’t quite fit. I think the movie is probably at least a B movie; with the issues that they either cut things or deliberately left things vague for better theories and that they didn’t build up to some of the fan service properly.
@@cmmosher8035 No, honestly, unless you go with a fan who will geek out. I went to this film because my kid has loved FNAF and has been talking about a movie for like eight years. My kid is a super fan, grew up on it. It was fun to see them enjoy it through very forgiving eyes.
@@cmmosher8035 to be honest, probably not. Like someone else said in this comment reply section, maybe as much as Amanda did?
Biggest joy for me in this movie is seeing childhood stars Josh Hutcherson (Zathura), Matthew Lillard (Scooby Doo) and Elizabeth Lail (Anna from Once Upon a Time) just getting work. Love the video as always. Also when Matthew did the wipe with the knife I knew they were not even trying to hide his reveal. Like that is just pure Ghostface!
The knife wipe is Stu's OG move!
I was starting to think I was crazy because no one was acknowledging Matthew Lillard in this movie!
🤦🏻♀️ Omg Beck from You was Anna and you just made me realize, thank you lol
@@mallorycarpinski1160 Because the target audience of the FNAF movie likely haven't seen Scream.
@@MVPMVEAnd he also didn't look like Shaggy at all x,D
I was always confused why ppl expected gore, there’s like no gore in the fnaf games just jumpscares tbh so idk why they expected to see faces ripped off when none of that visually presented in the games
Same. Heavy gore just isn't what makes FNAF......FNAF. Though I will say seeing the bloody corpses of the vandals and Max getting *bitten in half, even seeing it fall to the floor* surprised me.
This always happens with children's entertainment with a big adult fanbase. "Why doesn't this movie for 10-year-olds cater to MY tastes, an adult who commissions porn fan-art and watches violent fan games and videos!"
Well it's not far fetched to expect that from a franchise about children corpses being stuffed into animatronics and people being crushed by springlocked suits? Like it may not be visually explicit in the games, but it's still pretty much implied there.
@@helenakri7282also, in the game, we saw a child getting his head crushed between the jaws of an animatronic... Like.. that's a thing that happened. It happened in 8-bits yes but it still happened. Originally FNAF was never really afraid of implying or showing really horrific concepts.
but like it is a little gorey just not visually. like innards being scooped out. the animatronics leaking the decomp from childrens bodies . spring locks impaling people . a child's head being crushed by an animatronic. like it's there just a little lol
One complaint (among a few more minor ones) I have about the movie was Golden Freddy being a bit too subtly colored. I've followed the franchise since Markiplier first played FNAF 1, and even I was super confused about why the kid said he was "Not Freddy". The costume being mangled was enough of an indicator for the others I went to see it with, but I think it could have really benefitted from being a brighter yellow to distinguish it a bit better.
Also holy shit Matthew Lillard was absolutely perfect and had me laughing so hard in the career counselor scene.
I feel like they should have shown him either glitching/flickering a little, or depicted him alongside the other animatronics at some point to establish that he is his own character
I didn't catch that Golden Freddy was Golden Freddy until I went online after seeing the movie. I kept saying how the blonde kid would've been the perfect Golden freddy/Cassidy character too 😭😭
Personally I thought that the whole mangled appearance and the fact that he appeared out of nowhere (seemingly teleporting, which is later basically confirmed when he just vanishes once they get to Freddy's), as that is what he does in the games.
Same I do know the lore and it had me questioning things for a second if the golden hue was because of the lighting or if it was actually golden Freddy
@@Marigold11037 I got that the blonde kid was supposed to be Golden Freddy, but I didn't get that it was Golden Freddy who went to get Abby. I was super confused about when Freddy got so dirty for halve of the scene before I realised that it' Golden Freddy.
Then again we only literally saw him when it’s pitch black
When Mathew did his iconic knife wipe in the springlock suit I fangirled big time
yeah that felt like a little treat just for me
Cupcake was absolute delight. We watched it on Peacock cause we were not sure if the kiddos would enjoy it as much, but they were trilled. Also, when MatPat came on the screen, they cheered. As well as Cory's cameo. I liked that it wasn't a retelling 100% of the games and I feel that it's just doing it own thing with the character in this universe.
What do you think how many possibilities they have with this alternate timeline? They don't have to care too much about the games lore but they obviously care about the characters.
That is so awesome
Well the reason the animatronics were never checked in the canon is because the animatronics are EXTREMELY advanced for their time and their tech is proprietary so they are extremely legally protected
my 10 yo cousin attempted to explain this game to me and that was the first time I really felt like an old person bc my gut reaction was “that’s not age appropriate!” 😅
To answer your question about the lore: Yes its a story about a man disguising himself in a bunny suit and killing 5 children (several more down the line) Scott Cawthon has said that pedophilia is not welcome in his franchise, so it was only murder that took place. The children's bodies got stuffed into the suits and their ghosts possessed the animatronics, trapping them in the pizzeria forever. That is the main lore following the entire franchise
Edit: y'all need to CHIIIIIIIIIIIIILL 😫
Mfs when they learn that having morally questionable things happen in a story doesn't align with the writer's own personal morals:
While I do understand the difference between the two forms of violence, it's still funny to me that he says that about a franchise built on the horrific murders and mutilation of multiple children
Well, murder is... while still bad, is not as bad as kiddle diddling. I'd rather deal with the former, because at least it's not going to make me red rage. Much. @@emackenzie
@@BrokensoulRider Thats why I said I understand the difference; it's absolutely a different form of violence, but it's just a half step to the left of what children are already put through in this franchise.
The movie would've been better, more disturbing if he was a child molester. It IS a horror movie after all, not a disney channel special 😂
@@adamafam4412 I don't think pedophilia makes anything "better" and if the owner of the franchise is strictly against it, then his wishes should be respected
So, as a fan of fnaf, there's a major divide in the fanbase between older fans who want the series to lean into the gore and horror vibes that the concept of dead kids stuffed into robot suits brings, and the newer fans who want more 'horror for kids.' This is probably why the fnaf movie is so divisive, because it leans a lot more into the 'horror for kids (not really scary more lore focused)' scene than the older horror vibes. It's not a really scary movie, and doesn't do anything with the idea of, again, DEAD KIDS STUFFED INTO SUITS TO ROT.
The main villain feels more silly than anything else, but I had fun with this film noticing all the fun references. The story is pretty self contained, and doesn't get bogged down with all the game lore (outside of one thing), and the animatronics are the clear highlight. Overall a good time if you like the games, and if you don't it's a pulpy action horror movie.
yeah it was so weird to have the reveal literally be rotting children in animatronics with the surrounding tone - but I appreciate that they clearly infused a lot of references for fans
@@AmandaTheJedias an older fan, and a horror fan in general, I’m really glad that they kept the slightly family friendly tone. It’s a disturbing story of course, but the games have a lot of cuteness and humor too.
So what are you trying to say about the dead kids rotting
I mean, the franchise has a problem with defining what is the main villain's purpose with all this, has had since the beginning. Now it's like "oooh experimenting with agony" but that does not give him a reason to START murdering kids, just to keep at it. I think Scott hasn't solved that yet, so he decided to keep it out of at least this movie, but a killer with no clear motive is just weak (we can infer motive from adults being killed, but kids make it harder to come up with something PG) and makes the lore difficult to follow and care about.
As much as I would have liked for the movie and its tone to acknowledge the fucking horror of the spirits of murdered children inhabiting the suits their bodies were disposed in, the fanbase is quite clearly dominated by literal children. Going full Rated-R with it wouldn't have gone over well; even the stuff they _did_ do is a bit much for the age range of the average fan.
If I recall correctly, William Afton’s motivation in the games stems from when one of his animatronics accidentally killed his daughter, leading him to obsess over his work and experiment with life after death, eventually using the souls of the children he began murdering to develop a way to bring his daughter back
Pretty sure it was his son, the one from fnaf4 minigames, who gets his head crushed by Fredbear, while his daughter died latter on after he already started killing kids.
William killed 5 children and stuffed them their bodies in 5 different animatronics, the children then possessed them. He programmed them to lure children to their deaths. Later on his oldest kid exploited his younger brothers fear of animatronics, sticking his head in one of them. The animatronic snapped closed crushing his head. Later on his daughter dies as well but its his son first.
But his daughter died because she accidentally got nabbed _by_ one of his kidnap-and-murder bots (which he had previously told her to stay away from, specifically because it was secretly a kidnap-and-murder bot), so he must've already been a serial killer when she died
I got into the lore a few years back (during covid) and from what I've seen this is a pretty controversial topic
In the 4th game , we see the sister's empty bedroom . And unlike the older brother , we don't see the sister during that game , maybe cause she is dead .
as a 19-year-old fnaf fan and film student, i had a lot of feelings about this movie.
i went opening night and had a BLAST, the theatre was mostly older fans like myself and people were cheering and having a good time. i genuinely haven't had such a fun theatre experience since i saw EEAAO on opening weekend last year.
that being said, the fnaf fan in me felt a biiiiit conflicted about the way they presented the lore, choosing to mash together bits and pieces of the story to try to create something coherent enough for general audiences. some plot decisions didn't really make sense, especially if you KNOW the real game lore, but it works if you treat it as an alternate universe from the games.
as a film student, i have to say that the cinematography was GREAT. every shot looked good, the sets were loyal to the source material, and the animatronics themselves were a joy to watch. the usage of the VHS tapes was very smart and was a great nod to the fnaf sub-community of analog horror series. i loved the lighting in the pizzeria, it definitely added to the eerie atmosphere. obscuring max's death with a silhouette as a way to maintain that coveted pg-13 rated was very smart too.
i don't ABSOLUTELY ADORE the movie but i genuinely did really enjoy it. it's funny, i usually agree with critic consensus when it comes to film, but i think this is just a textbook case of "made for the fans". the ones who get it, get it.
overall, i give it a solid 7/10 as a fnaf fan and a solid 7.5/10 as a film student!
Honestly, i couldnt agree more. I just left the theatre and i really enjoyed myself with two fellow fnaf nerds but that is the fun factor imo. Knowing what is what and seeing what they do with it all. Im curious what they will do in the future!
I think a lot of people don’t like admitting that they like something that is bad. I think overall it’s not a good movie. That doesn’t mean you can’t like it. Twilight is bad, but it was huge and people loved it. There are things I love that have some pretty terrible writing, but I still love it. The Mario movie had a pretty bare bones story and I think it’s a pretty mediocre movie, but I had a really fun time watching it.
I streamed the movie since I didn't want to go to the theatre alone. This was advertised as a horror movie, It didn't scream horror for me. The film itself was decent, the plot was good but I won't go into full details about my thoughts here. I made my own comment with my full thoughts there.
As a guy that’s really into movies and the production that goes into them, I thought the movie was really bad. Even as a former fan of the games, I was extremely conflicted, because FNaF was a huge part of my life for a while, and I enjoyed the references, but the bad plot is so distracting.
I’d say if you’re a fan and were waiting a long time to see this, the easter eggs might be enough to make this worthwhile for you, so 7/10. If you’re a fan and wanted a good movie, you’d probably be disappointed like me. As film itself though, 4/10.
my theater was actually surprisingly full of older teens and adults (but to be fair they were really strict with the r13 rating and wouldnt let me and my sister pass without showing an ID even though we are clearly not under 13) it was a fun time, the theater was so lively and reacted during the references + the matpat & cory cameos hahahah
kinda glad to see someone else being ID’d. where i live the age limit was 15. i’m 19 and they asked me to show my ID. i laughed when i thought she was joking and the lady had got mad at me LMAO
In Ontario, Canada, people don't get ID'd for movies anymore. Ratings are just a suggestion here. Essentially removes any and all blame off of the Cinemas. It's up to parent discretion of they want their kid seeing a movie or not. And if kids are sneaking behind their parents backs, we aren't responsible for them.
Markiplier was supposed to have a cameo as the security guard in the opening death scene, but he had a scheduling conflict.
I'm not gonna lie, as a long time watcher of MatPat's channels, hearing his character in the movie say his CZcams catchphrase made me cackle out loud in the theater.
"Isn't this waiter, like, a dude?!" honestly has me in stitches xD Good for MatPat though, being in the movie!
did i love this movie as a fan for 9 years? yes!
can i also acknowledge that it is not a masterpiece? also yes!!
Yeah, it's definatly one of those movies that are just good enough to enjoy. It's not good or bad, just a bit fun and an interesting take on the franchise.
I like the take one youtuber had in a youtube short that it's a thriller rather then a horror though. I personally prefer thrillers over horrors so I think that's part of why I liked it.
Was I the only one who got miffed when she chucked his pills into the water? This is America, and that stuff is expensive!
as an older fan, i absolutely loved this movie. i loved the lore changes they made bc it opens the gates for new theories to come out instead of just rehashing older theories. i see the movie like how i see the books, an alternate reality with similar characts and the same basic plot lines, but ultimately a completely different story with its own set of lore. sure, a lot overlaps but there are still a bunch of differences between the two.
i personally felt like the true horror in this movie was not the animatronics but the simple fact of poverty and not being able to provide for a young loved one to the point of being threatened to have them taken away, as well as watching your very young sibling being kidnapped and not being able to do anything about it. those situations are horrifying and horror does not just have to be about gore and violence, we can have nuance lmao. also i loved the fort building scene bc it shows you that the ghosts in the animatronics are still just kids; they dont want to murder people, William does, they just wanna be kids and build forts and have a dance party.
my big theory for vanessa is that she isn't biologically Williams daughter, but he kidnapped her and brainwashed her to not say anything and to even help him out with hiding the bodies. she'll never report that she found blood or bodies at freddy's bc she knows her dad will be suspect #1. it also makes sense as to why William is so quick to stab vanessa bc he doesn't actually see her as family just as a pawn for him to use until its time to sacrifice her for the "greater good".
As a former fan from 2014, the movie really sucked. Some of the lore changes weren’t bad, but others made no sense. There was zero horror and zero tension throughout this movie. The only part that has any sort of suspense was the opening scene. The tone is all over the place, it wants to be horror comedy, but it feels like I’m watching a completely different movie each time it switches. The acting is pretty good, mostly Josh Hutcherson and Matthew Lillard. That scene were mike was willing to give up sister was only good because of Josh Hutcherson’s performance, he sold it. Matthew Lillard gave it his all with the 6 minutes of screen time he had. The dialogue they gave some of these actors was pretty bad, especially for Elizabeth Lail, I was shocked at some of the lines that her character, Vanessa said. The fort scene is absolutely terrible. Yes, I know the animatronics are kids, but I feel like everyone already caught that, because most of the movie is spent on those damn dream sequences. There are much better ways of conveying the information you want then what they came up with. Plus, the animatronics are supposed to be threatening, that’s how the movie was marketed, the fort scene removes any threat they had.
It was very disappointing, and it’s certainly not worth the 8 years I waited.
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@AlexMartinez-nj9io really? I've been a fan since 2014, and it was the most fun movie I've watched all year.
@@scottytoast5 I was hoping for a good movie, or at least something fun like the Mario Movie, but I got neither.
@@AlexMartinez-nj9io meh well I certainly enjoyed it, especially seeing the animations have so much life in them
Trying to stick to the "established story" is near impossible. Even matt patt admits nearly every game conflicts another in one way or another. I think they did the impossible making it make as much sense as they did. 🎉❤
The chronological lore for FNAF is very detailed, kind of flies all over the place, and changes narrative perspective A L O T. So the overall story can be confusing if you’re not being presented all the right details at the right points of time. Regardless, I feel like you got the overall gist of what this franchise is about!
Because the original creator can't even write a simple coherent and consistent storyline.
@@Woodyallendiebitch lol you’re not wrong!! There’s like 2-3 books that were made to retcon the timeline mistakes because things got so jumbled between game releases it’s so convoluted!
One thing I will say that I think this movie nailed perfectly, were the animatronics. Awesome special effects and props provided by the Jim Henson Company that made the more iconic characters (including Springtrap) so alive!
The problem is that the first game wasn’t made with a story in mind, it developed with each game, so there was never a cohesive story to begin with. Scott now uses the books to explain concepts that would help solve the current lore of the game. He will probably use the movies to retell the story with the game events and lore in mind to make a more cohesive narrative than the games.
I was one of the first fans of this game franchise when I was 13 and in junior high. I remember watching the first Markiplier video about it only an hour after it premiered. The movie was announced in 2015 when I was 14 years old. I’m now 22 years old and a security guard myself. I got married right before the movie released in theaters. It’s the first movie I’ve seen with my husband in theaters as his wife. My life has changed so much in the 8 years this movie was in development. This movie really showed my husband what I love about this franchise. He was never familiar with it outside of memes but he came out of it liking the movie. To me, this movie is a love letter to the fans. This film will always have such a special place in my heart.
Agreed 100%
Markiplier was working on his own project, a movie of the game Iron Lung. He told them when he'd be shooting in advance, but since he's a You Tuber, they didn't take him seriously and thought he was making a small project, not a whole damn movie.
When they got back to him, they wanted him for three days and I hear he was going to be the security guard at the beginning. But by then he was well into shooting his own project and couldn't make it. He tried to sort out a work around, but in the end everything just clashed.
Due to the success of the movie, there's probably be a second one, so there's still a chance for him to cameo another time.
I doupt they werent taking him seriously, he has made markiplier in space.
And from mat pat's testimony during the filming people were respectful
It wouldn't surprise me if they intentionally asked for days that would obviously conflict with his own work
@@marions.3657 I'm not saying they weren't respectful. I'm sure they were throughout.
Mark has often talked about the unspoken stigma for CZcamsrs trying to break into mainstream films. Studios just assume that your project isn't as big as the one they're doing. So when Mark said "I'm doing something here" they probably assumed he was doing a small movie for his CZcams channel, not a major film for cinemas.
They also probably asssumed that Mark would jump at the chance at being on the big screen and put them first when they gave him their schedule. So they didn't take his plans as set in stone and thought he would work around for them.
I'm sure they respect him as a person and as a creator. I'm sure the clash wasn't deliberate. But I'm also sure that they thought their movie was more important than Mark's project, in an unconscious bias more than anything else.
@@frostrider3704 With them being such a big studio it's more like they had set up for filming, mark had set up for filming, the two conflicted. I'm pretty sure Mark is directing Iron Lung so that means he had to be on set nearly every scene. Movie filming and production can take a very long time - months upon months upon months, not to mention it being very VERY expensive. It's not that they don't take him seriously, it's more that they aren't going to post-pone filming of the fnaf movie or iron lung for months just to make this happen, way too expensive, and too difficult with such big productions. For them to reschedule filming that means rescheduling the actors, the equipment, the hundreds of crew members, the locations. Not to mention they still both have deadlines to meet. It just isn't worth it, on either end. It's very easy to underestimate just how many moving parts these kinds of things have.
I am a massive fan since 2014 and I didn't know what to think of this movie when I first saw it. But on further rewatches, I'm a big fan despite the issues. It's a lot of fun, they took a pretty unique direction with it, and I feel like as the lore gets more complicated and twisted, this movie will retroactively be made better.
I, as a non-fan of the games, went with a group of friends which included one person who is a big fan. She enjoyed it; while she acknowledged that they changed a lot, she also said she appreciated that the movie knew what it was and leaned into it. While I obviously missed a lot of the Easter eggs she was catching, I still enjoyed it as just a silly "dumb fun" movie. It didn't make me even slightly interested in playing the games, and honestly I don't even need to see the movie a second time. But I'm glad I saw it once.
I went with my superfan neice. She LOVED it. I thought they nailed exactly what they were trying to go for.
As a fan sense the first game release and currently in my 30s, I can say I really enjoyed the movie. I don't mind that the story is not like the original, the creator is notorious for making different timeliness for different media that can help solve the lore of each other. It's why the lore is irritating 😂
I actually enjoyed the movie a lot. My brother and I enjoyed the games and were huge fans and followers of the lore. Seeing MatPat in there was a fun cameo and I really liked how they incorporated in the lore. It was a little rushed and I thought they could have expanded on the plot with the missing children and their deaths. I would have liked to see savage Bonnie/Jeremy giving William Afton the fight of his life. The way they changed the story around with Vanessa was a surprise, but I didn’t hate it. I also think Mike’s conflict with Garrett took a back seat and was hardly important at the end. I think Golden Freddy could have had a way more interesting role in the story, but it was fun to see him and the “It’s me” Easter egg. I liked the Spring lock scene, I knew they were going to do it as soon as Vanessa told Mike about them. I’m very interested to see what happens to Afton and what Balloon Boy’s role is in the next movie.
I don’t blame you for leaving the theatre! I’ve been a fan since elementary school and I went opening night and I’m not saying people aren’t allowed to be excited, but people absolutely do not know movie theatre etiquette anymore and it effected my enjoyment for the movie, I pushed through it but I’m definitely looking forward to redeem my excitement by rewatching it at home.
its probably for the best i first watched it in a call with friends. they were able to lower my volume or mute me when i got too excited to remember theater etiquette lol
I can understand kids making some noise, but sometimes parents really need to step in. When I went to see The Little Mermaid remake a little girl was screaming and crying the entire time. Her mom did not seem to feel even slightly guilty for ruining the experience of those trying to enjoy the movie.
@22:02 he disappears cuz that's what golden freddy does. In the lore that suit has the spring locks pushed so it's basically a costume that despite being possessed can't walk around like the others. So he spooks about. That's why he's all slumped over in-game too.
The King of FNAF unfortunately couldn't participate in the movie because he's shooting his own one (Iron Lung) and the timing of the 2 productions just coincided with each other so we were deprived of having Mark in this one, even though he really really wanted to be in it...hopefully if they make another one in the future we can see him there!
I think the most impressive thing about this movie for me is that it was made on just a budget of 20 million dollars and yet it's already made 217 million dollars at the box office! Amazing stuff regardless of if you like it or not. The producers of this movie are sleeping on beds made of money tonight that's for sure..
Amanda I cannot recommend Wendigoon's video enough! It's a super beginner-friendly video going over the lore as he understands it. It's called The Complete Five Nights at Freddy's Story Explained and it's about an hour long but a super enjoyable watch!
All of these videos are of course just theories, but his video was great! It's the one fan theory that really makes the most sense to me and he does a great job of lining up the timeline despite how all over the place it is.
always happy to see wendigoon mentioned haha
I don’t think it’s much of an age thing. Most people that I know through my college had a really good time! It’s more of an expectations thing, some people have it in their heads that the series should be dark and mature when in reality it’s never been much darker than your standard YA novel. Honestly I think the somewhat dark 80-90s kids film vibe that the movie goes for suits the franchise really well.
i never played fnaf as a kid, i was too scared, but ive always been invested in the lore, so im excited to watch it, ive heard its like a love letter to fans
19enby here! Just wanted to say that I’ve been a fan of fnaf since basically game 1 and I’ve engaged with the vast majority of materials from the franchise.
My response to the film was that I was literally vibrating with energy afterwards, I found it so compelling and heartfelt. Additionally with how rediculous the story of the games is I thought this was the perfect film for this franchise
I feel like FnaF even before the movie had like at least three different AU versions of the lore. With first half of games, VR fnaf, and books. And the movie is just another AU with remixed familiar but altered Lore so I didn’t mind how not canon it was or wasn’t
I saw the movie with my boyfriend during opening weekend, and it was super fun to see in theaters with other people. I’ve been a huge fan of FNAF for years, but my bf knew literally nothing about the games or lore going into it. I heard from critics and audiences online that the movie can be hard to get into if you don’t kinda already know what’s going on, so the night before the movie I sat him down and gave him like a huge 3 hour long infodump on the lore lmfao I had to break out the dry erase board and everything. It was so much fun.
I knew very little of the backstory going in and I ended up really liking it. I think too many people expected it to be a full on slasher flick and I was soooooo happy it wasn't!
It was far more creepy and unsettling vs scarry. Kind of like a really, really amped up episode of Goosebumps. I am looking forward to actually going into the lore now.
I'm so glad to see someone else call bits out like Vannessa's 180 on if it's safe for Abby, how the group who trashed the place's plan made no sense and Vanessa super didn't warn him. No one else seems to be talking about there are definitely parts which aren't great. With all those bits, the tone being a mess, and several things not explained or resolved in the film just left me with a bad taste.
A lot of those wholes and bits that didn't make sense seem to be because of writing/script changes and they didn't fix the issues that came about. Like Vanessa suddenly knowing everything and never actually warning Mike, or her seemingly being okay with Abby one moment and then against her being there the next.
@@lilchaos9212 I'd have preferred them to delay it and fix them tbh. Like we waited 8 years already, no one is going to care about a few months
Vanessa’s continuous flipping felt to me as if she was putting on an act in front of Abby but whenever she was alone with Mike, she acted more hostile. As for the warning: her father said her job was to keep Mike in the dark and kill him if he got too close. So obviously she couldn’t just tell him what’s up with the dead kids in the animatronics (william did not hesitate in stabbing her when she fought back) but she did warn him to stop bringing Abby and to be alert during his job.
@@send-me-a-puffalope Seems stupid she'd allow her to be so close and build a fort with them still. Besides, that's just one of the parts that came up, there are many more that weren't even in the video that I found too
I think the movie did what it was trying to do really well, balancing appealing to people who aren’t familiar with the franchise while also putting a lot in there for long time fans. As far as the changes from the games, it’s not a big shock when we’ve already seen with the books that Scott is very willing to do alternate timelines to explore the same ideas and big events. I thought they were interesting changes that added to ideas that were already in the original story and fit it better to the medium.
I'm an adult fan of fnaf, have been following the franchise for years now, and I absolutely love the movie. I thought it was good that they changed the story with how convoluted the games have become. They stayed true to the heart of fnaf and did well with their own thing, not taking itself too serious but still having a solid balance of funny and serious scenes. Obviously it wasn't perfect but like it's a fnaf movie, I didn't expect a masterpiece. And for what it was, it was great. I loved all the references and easter eggs, the characters were interesting and the plot was solidly built!
4:08 there is no evidence of child diddling. It’s like the original Nightmare on Elm Street - just plain ol’ murder.
Except the original Freddy Krueger was a child molester. It was studio interference that changed his motive to straight murder, though the vibes were still there.
I just saw the movie this morning. Been a fan since 2014. Personally, I really enjoyed it, but I didn’t go in with super high expectations. I feel like if I had it might have been a worse experience for me, but as it stands, I just enjoyed being in the theater and seeing my favorite animatronics on the big screen. All of the actors were great too. I never lost interest in the film and I never started wondering when it would be over and when I could go home. I just got sucked in to the experience of the movie and had fun. And at the end of the day I think that’s what FNAF is really about. So I give the movie two big thumbs up.
My thoughts exactly! I had fun with the film but I didn’t give myself too high of expectations. I think people just expected too much to start with.
It's so interesting to hear someone who isn't a fan of the series comment on the Freddy murder mask thing. I thought it was really silly because there's no reason for it to exist other than to kill people. Like the spring lock suits, while ridiculous, have an in-universe purpose that isn't just 'kill ppl'. It adds to the idea that a lot of what is wrong with Freddy's is just sheer negligence, which I guess makes sense if the owner WANTS children dead XD
I also used to theorize that William Afton was committing CSA along with murder, but the later games + the books really seem to push this angle that his motive was trying to understand the power of, like... human agony? And how that could bind souls/ghosts to the animatronics? It's kind of confusing because the timeline is (intentionally?) confusing.
But yeah, the fandom in general does NOT like the idea that Afton was motivated by sexual desire at all, and there aren't any of the kinds of hints I would expect in the games. So I'm guessing that is not how it's supposed to be read.
My theater was full of a lot of older people, I didn't see many kids. My mom who went with me said it was pry because "it reminded them of the old horror movies like Childs Play". It was silly and "camp-y?". I enjoyed it and im excited for the sequel cause you know there'll be one
I'm an old fan, as I because a fan when the first game came out old lol
For me personally it was an amazing experience! It had the spirit of fnaf, especially because actual fnaf game lore is held together with a gum and dental floss, so having a slightly retconned story for the sake of consistency is a positive thing. Especially coz we kinda knew the movie would be it's own thing, Scott said so himself since the beginning
People who were expecting something similar to the gameplay don't realize how extremely boring that would be
Markiplier was supposed to be in the movie! But he was directing his own movie at that time so he couldn't make it :>
And as a side note, the movie isn't beginner fan friendly, it was supposed to be PURELY for fans so the fact that some stuff doesn't make sense if you don't know anything about fnaf is to be expected unfortunately
Thank you!!! The games was capitaving bc it was soooo many hours of lore n constant anxiety that something will pop up. I really didn’t see how an exact replica of the game would be entertaining bc the game wasn’t jumpscares it was omg this was the bite of 83!!!
I’ve watched the theory videos casually but never played the game and I gotta say, watching you go into this completely blind is very very entertaining
I always think of this franchise as a multi-verse situation when it comes to stories! The games, books, and now the movies have similar themes and semi similar story beats, but there are sometimes different characters playing different parts in the story than we're used to. It makes it so you can look at all of them as seperate cannon that fleshed out this world. Also, you dont think too much about how insanely convoluted it all is. Lol
As a long time fan in my 30s that has actually read some of the books i thought the movie was really fun. Little easter eggs everywhere and i think the book parallels with the drawings and stuff was really neat
The books (there are 29 of them) also have separate lore, so it's common for the Fnaf media to differ from each other. I'm confused as to why that was such a shock to some fans, but I think those are newer fans. I will admit though the game lore is a fascinating storyline, so a part of me wanted to follow it a bit more but I'm still happy with it. Cause part of it is Mike is supposed to be William's estranged son and he's a nightguard under a fake name investigating the place after discovering his sister who passed away is possessing Circus Baby. And rather than feeling guilt for having his younger brother be kidnapped under his watch, he feels guilt for accidentally killing his younger brother because he wanted to pull a prank by putting him up to Golden Freddy's mouth which ended up closing on him (what the babysitter scene was referencing).
The lore might have shifted around but it was like the books different but gives you better context on the overall lore. I was suprised on how happy I was watching it. All the easter eggs really warmed my younger self.
I went with my kids who are FNAF fans. I knew the basic story going in and the CZcams fan songs. What I enjoyed was feeling the excitement from my kids and the fun of anticipating the jump scares with them. As an adult I also really appreciate that they included some of the CZcamsrs who are fans of the show and turned the unofficial Five nights at Freddy’s tune into the official end credits song, there is something lovely about the show of appreciation towards the people who helped keep the excitement about your game going rather than asking a famous band to make your theme. I came away from a kiddy horror with a sense of warm and fuzzies which is kind of unexpected 😂
I've been a mild fnaf fan since 2014 (I'm 25 now) and I really loved the movie! I went with someone who's an even bigger fan and we both had such a fun time pointing out references and easter eggs. Sure, it could have been better, but my inner teen is SO happy
For the record, I'm 40 and I loved it. I've been a fan of the franchise for years, I fully admit that the lore of the games is complicated, convoluted and often contradictory. I also love the trilogy novels. So watching the movie it was kind of apparent to me that Scott Cawthon used bits from both the games and the novels to make the movie its own thing. People that are upset that it didn't stick to the game story completely, I'm sure it would have been difficult to translate the games into a movie, as evidenced by the many many scrapped scripts before this one was chosen. I like that this movie gives Mike a reason for taking and keeping such a horrible and crappily paid job: he had to have a job, any job, to keep custody of his sister. The game never makes who Mike is or why he wants to stay at the job clear. Later games add to his story but very little is actually confirmed by Scott, plus he has a habit of changing things and retconning so like I said, complicated. As for the kids, yes they are the spirits possessing the animatronics. Afton (Raglan/Spring Bonnie) stuffed their bodies in the suits, so yeah, haunted animatronics. The animatronics in the movie were made by the Henson company and are actually super accurate to the games, hence the awkward movements. The "too kiddy" parts, that people have issue with, just shows to me that they are still just kids, when their eyes go red, I think that's when Afton is influencing them. And Markiplier couldn't be in the film, though he was supposed to be the guard in the beginning of the film, because he was filming his movie Iron Lung at the same time. All in all, the movie is its own thing and should be watched as such, not as a one to one recreation of the games.
It's about the psychosis induced by the trauma of the losing of a family member. Mike and his brother, William Afton and his son. Mike is willing to make irrational decisions in a futile attempt to undo his failure to protect his little brother. William Afton turned to Necromancy to attempt to bring his son back from the dead. His son was killed by some kids in a freak accident when a prank goes wrong. Some kids at a birthday party held at Afton's first Pizzeria location stick his son's head into an Golden Freddy's animatronic mouth, causing fatal brain damage. Afton blames all children for what happened to his son.
Many people don't understand this lore is based on psychological horror from the perspective of a child's mind that has been warped by heinous murder. Venessa seems bipolar because she was made an accomplice to the kidnapping and murder of children and turning them into undead animatronics since she was a little girl. She wants her innocent childhood back but it keeps getting twisted with the sins of her father.
The older child ghost that is in Golden Freddy is "the child Afton should not have killed" as he turned out to be a sadistic psychopath. He is actually the reason Afton can't die and keeps coming back.
Nice analysis
“I’ll be right back.” - Stu Macher
“I always come back.” - William Afton
I actually liked the lore swapping, since current fnaf lore is way too convoluted for a singular movie experience, and I think the expectation to the movie built too much because of the wait, so if they stuck with the original lore it would have been an uphill battle of unmet expectations anyway. I think it did as good as it ever would have been allowed to.
Also, I'm pretty sure the one to deal with the bodies WAS Vanessa
As a fan from long ago, watched other people who play the game, and understood the story I say the movie is pretty accurate to the game. Little bit of a fun fact, the cast and crew go to Mad Pat to ask alot of questions about the game so they can accurately fit it into the movie
One thing I'll give the movie is that they made the whole "dead kids inside the animatronics" thing feel legitimately creepy.
the reason Golden Freddy says “not freddy” is because Golden Freddy is a fan name, his canon name is Golden Fredbear or just Fredbear
I'm a huge fan of Fnaf, and i thought the movie was great! Ive watched it 3 times and I noticed new things every time and i dont think it suffered at all from the lack of gore, i liked the subtlety of the deaths being primarily off screen, especially since we dont see the deaths happen in the games, either.
The fort scene was also a good way to reinforce that the animatronics are still innocent children inside those suits who just want to play and be kids, being influenced by their anger to attack
The first fnaf game came out when I was in middle school and I’ve followed the games/ story since then. I’m in my 20’s now and while I can completely understand some of the criticism, I also feel like a lot of fans are giving it a really hard time. When the books started coming out and they weren’t 100% accurate to what is HINTED at in the games, people went crazy, but as the years have past people respect the books as its own thing. I feel the same perspective should be given to the movies. I loved it. I teared up at seeing just how accurate the animatronics looked. A lot of love and respect went into this adaptation and for that I will remember it forever.
As someone who played the game in colllege and now an attorney, that was definitely the best part lol
21:38 I definitely think it would've been a much stronger impact and reveal of Golden Freddy if they made the animatronic appear in the house in the iconic sitting down pose, the same pose that we see him when he was introduced for the very first time in the game and it would've made him more distinguishable from the brown Freddy and clear up the confusion
They could've also switched the shirts of the kid possessing him and the Hat kid tbh.
no. "i always come back" implies he knows he will posess the spring bonnie suit upon death.
Been a fan since 2015, this was the most fun I had in theaters since Infinity War and Endgame came out. Vanessa's probably supposed to be an adaptation of William's son from the games (also named Michael) who accidentally caused his brother's death.
Also, no William isn't a pedophile. He just murders them.
I watched it with my mother who had no idea about the lore and such, and she loved it. It was a great movie for us to watch and have fun with. :D
The lore changes make perfect sense, the creator has been making alternate universes of his own game forever. I loved this movie, solid 9/10
I've been watching you for so long and am a huge fnaf fan so honestly seeing how many things you don't have context for is really entertaining
I also went into this movie mostly knowing very surface level things through osmosis. Mostly came for Josh Hutcherson! But I got really excited at the MatPat cameo. And I enjoyed Matthew Lillard’s performance as well. I also expected the movie to be scarier/have more jump scares. But yeah the tonal shift on the animatronics was strange. And Vanessa was the sketchiest character from the get go.
As a fan of the lore and games this movie was just so much fun for my kids and I, we had a blast and the fort scene was adorable. My kids loved it and it was a reminder of just who these animatronics really were. Haven’t had this much fun with a horror movie in a while, it wasn’t terrifying but it honestly didn’t need to be. My kids and I are eagerly awaiting sequels! There’s a lot of potential and I was happy to see how much homage they paid to the fans!
Ok but now that I think about it the whole “living in the past” bit is midkey the whole fucking theme of FNAF when you consider Henry and William’s arcs about rebuilding their kids/families 🫠🫠🫠
I would definitely watch a video of you exploring Fnaf lore. I think your takes on it would be gold!!!
I went in to the movie knowing just about as much as you did and I have to say, I really enjoyed it for what it was. I have gone ahead and looked more into the lore and in hindsight, I hope more of it is incorporated into the sequels but it doesn’t change that I had a great time. It wasn’t scary but the animatronics were just unsettling enough to have a couple creepy moments and it was super campy
Okay, as far as I know (only casually following the lore myself) aside from the actual animatronics, there were two wearable costumes with animatronic features, Golden Freddy and Golden Bonnie. Afton of course had the Bonnie suit and got trapped in it; but the fact that it was a "regular" costume and not an animatronic explains how Golden Freddy was able to move outside the range of the pizzeria. As much sense as it could make anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
1) Petition for Amanda to either play the games or react to MatPat's 4 video saga detailing his timeline.
2) I have been a fan for a while. Since it came out and every CZcamsr played it. I loved this movie because I went in with low expectations. I didn't believe that they were going to stay by the game lore. I believed that this would be what Scott Cawthon (the game creator) would have liked to have done since the beginning. When he made the first game, he never expected it to blow up like it did so the game had very little lore at all and no story planned. Once it blew up, he probably didn't know what to do with the story with his very little experience. I think that is why the lore is so jumbled. He doesn't know how long this will continue for so the story won't make sense anytime soon.
3) I love the fnaf community for making so many memes from this movie.
I'll sign that petition ✍️
I loved it so much. I’ve been a fan since the second game (was vaguely interested when the first game came out but didn’t get into it until the second).
The cute, innocent, kiddie moments are so very important for the overall film.
I think Plumhouse was perfect for the movie. The premise and lore are really silly yet convoluted, a higher budget production might have changed stuff too much to appeal to fans while also failing to get the fresh audience. After all, they tend to give game adaptations their "own spin ". Plumhouse doesn't take itself seriously. That why they're completely fine with a silly horror movie just filled with references for fans.
I'm not frequently into endless sequels but I think I'd love it for this series.
I LOVE that you covered this while wearing a Matthew Lillard / Skeet Ulrich shirt. I'm HERE for Matthew Lillard being our scream king, forever!!
Would also love to see a follow up video on the movie if you actually do a lore deep dive or just a video of you learning the lore