Five Nights at Freddy’s, or FNAF, was as popular on the big screen this weekend as it is on the computer screen. According to Variety online, the horror movie made about $130 million dollars around the world on it’s opening weekend. Some students from Patrick M. Villano School thought the video game adaptation was on point.
Jamie Whitney, a fifth-grader, said the movie was “great and entertaining to watch.”
As in the video game, the movie focuses on a family pizzeria called Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. It was opened by a man named William Afton. Wearing a bunny suit, Afton captured children and put them in animatronic costumes on stage of his pizzeria. Following the disappearance of the children, the pizzeria shut down. Afton hired a security guard named Mike Schmidt to keep watch over his closed pizzeria at night. Schmidt must survive the scary animatronic characters named Freddy, Chicka, Bonnie, and Foxy who come alive at night. In the video game, the player controls Schmidt and must complete the night shift and defend himself from the scary animatronic characters.
The movie is rated PG-13. Famous movie critic, Roger Ebert, is not a fan of the movie.
“As it is, the movie is both too fast and too slow to be either shocking or moving enough. Five Nights at Freddy’s might satisfy the series’ established fans, but everyone else will have to look elsewhere for fun,” Ebert said in his online review.
