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

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...

Killer robots, lame movie.

A young security guard faces homicidal animatronic animals.

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

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

Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Peter Rainer and Tim Cogshell review this weekend’s new movie releases in theaters, streaming, and on demand platform.

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

Adapting a fad video game, the horror is an animatronic-filled fun time for a younger demographic. Our Five Nights at Freddy’s review:

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

‘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.

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.