Five Nights At Freddy's review: Game adaptation is light on fright

Nearly a decade ago, Scott Cawthon’s point-and-click survival game Five Nights at Freddy’s was released into the world and became an instant hit, than...

Pizzeria’s animal robots do the slicing in movie lacking laughs or scares.

There’s enough backstory here for, say, a dozen movies (wink).

“Five Nights at Freddy’s” isn’t half as scary as one or two of the parent-vs.-parent brawls I witnessed a few years ago at Chuck E. Cheese’s, but t...

“Five Nights at Freddy’s” wants to do for animatronic arcade characters what “It” did for clowns. That’s unlikely, as this latest transformation ...

Violent video game adaptation starts well but falls apart. Read Common Sense Media's Five Nights at Freddy's review, age rating, and parents guide.

A review of 'Five Nights At Freddy's,' a rather bland film version of the popular 2014 video game sensation.

Who knew a movie about homicidal robot mascots could be so boring?

Five Nights at Freddy's has an amusing concept with its Chuck E. Cheese from Hell setup. Unfortunately, the film has fewer scares (or laughs) than an old epi...

Killer robots, lame movie.

It's out now in cinemas.

This fun Blumhouse adaptation of 'Five Nights at Freddy's' treats its source material with reverence to the point of over-complication.

A young security guard faces homicidal animatronic animals.

Our verdict is in!

What should’ve been an intricate, twisted, and absurd treat is demoted to generic horror movie sludge

Review of "Five Nights at Freddy's," the Josh Hutcherson film based on the popular video game.

This take on a clever video game is deeply puzzling and tonally bananas

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The globally popular video game franchise swings for the big screen with surprisingly vicious kills but some of Hollywood's creakier storytelling conventions.

What appears as a fun robotic slasher lark turns out to be a deathly dull rip-off of various trauma-based horror yarns which fails to deliver in either the s...

You won't want to spend even one evening with this lifeless flop

This adaptation of a video game franchise is more interested in unpacking childhood trauma than packing in jump scares.

Animatronic characters come to life in ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s.’ The same cannot be said for the movie itself.

’80s animatronics, ’90s references, ’00s style — and a very 2020s take on internet fandom narratives

Five Nights at Freddy's proves to be another surprisingly solid video game adaptation in 2023. Our review is spoiler free.

When it comes to making a movie based on an established IP,like a video game, filmmakers can use one of two approaches: attempt to broadenthe scope with the ...

The games’ morbid personality has been sanded down to its most generic jump-scares and banal revelations.

Characters have a blase, matter-of-fact acceptance of the central premise of the horror video game turned film “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” that a thread...

‘Five Nights at Freddy’s,’ the film adaptation of a popular video game franchise, imagines a haunted Chuck E. Cheese — with few laughs or scares.

Lacklustre horror based on the popular video game is a rare artistic misfire for Blumhouse

After nearly a decade, the live-action horror film adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy's proves to be well worth the load time.

For a horror movie based on a gaming franchise known for jumpscares, the only thing that jumps out is how wimpy it is.

This video-game adaptation never lives up to its premise’s potential as either a scary movie or an exercise in absurdism.

The Five Nights at Freddy’s movie was never going to be as terrifying as the video game series it’s based on

Josh Hutcherson fails to impress in this horror film directed by Emma Tammi

Director Emma Tammi spends more time explaining than showing audiences why the game is so scary

Budget horror maestro Jason Blum’s magic is nowhere to be seen in flat horror movie that pits Josh Hutcherson against a bunch of killer animatronics.

Five Nights at Freddy’s wants to be scary, but it’s mostly just sad.

It had so much potential.