Five Nights at Freddy's Review

 Hey Everyone,

  Welcome back to another review from the Pandamonium crew. This review is coming from yours truly Misty D. Panda. Anyways, lets not do all this small talk and instead how about we get to it!! So I went to see Five Nights at Freddy's Saturday the day after release in Theaters. I avoided all internet contact that night so i did not get any spoilers. Just a heads up in this review there is going to be slight spoilers but its a review so i guess its to be expected. So if you are like me and a nut for the Freddy franchise then you have probably seen that it has so many theories and fan fics about it that its hard to tell what is the true story and what isnt. All we ever get from Scott are hints here and there. Sometimes Scott is sweet and lets us in on a few things that give us certain points of who what when where and why. So we have established that Freddy, Chica, Bonnie, and Foxy are those of the 4 children from the missing records in 1985 and of course lets not forget the Bite of 1983 where Evan ( williams youngest child from Fnaf 4  ) Gets his head bitten off by none other than Springlock Freddy aka golden Freddy ( Michael why did you do it... even you should have known the springlocks are going to close because of moisture ) also last but not least the bite of 87 with Jeremy Fitzgerald ( fnaf 2 security guard) got his head bite and his frontal lobe damaged so bad he did not recover ( bitten by toy Bonnie ). Then of course there is 30 years later with the Fazbear Frieghts that takes you through an haunted whats suppose to be an amusements park/ haunted attraction. These are facts we all know of.  We are going to leave out Fnaf sister location because it seems as if this has nothing to do with the movie at all which makes sense to me considering it is suppose to be aft.... wait i am getting ahead of myself and literally could talk about Fnaf forever. 

  Lets start at the beginning shall we. Ill make a new post for the complete lore that i know of personally if you wish to read about that more and with more detail but that is not what you came here for ... you came here for the review so lets get to it.

  The setting is sometime in the 2000's after the Kids went missing in 1985. Starts out with Mike Schmidt and a new character they are bringing in Abby, Mike's kid sister. We come to hear that later his mother died and after that their father left and couldn't handle it. Never mention what happened to his father but i can tell you i already have a theory on that even though every time i think i have something nailed down Scott says HAHA NOPE but i love him anyways. Anyhoo, so we start out with Mike and his sister Abby basically about to be in a custody battle with their aunt. Their aunt of course thinks that Mike is not fit to take care of Abby and to be honest at first it does seem he is kinda of a rebel and cant keep a job but you can tell he loves his sister. However since he does love his sister he decides he needs to get a job and keep it. So he tried to go to a job counselor who goes by the name of Steve Raglan aka our boy ( Mathew Lillard) William Afton ( we all already knew Mathew was playing him so ...something is already up). Of course at this point lets call him phone guy. Steve tells him he screwed up so bad on all his other jobs that there is only one other option at this point. A security night shift at Freddy's Fazbear Pizza . He of course says no because well he has a kid sister and cant leave her alone at night but after sometime of thinking and their aunt being a complete ass he decides ok I need this job bad enough and finds a baby sitter who turns out to not be who she appears to be either. So he calls Steve aka phone guy aka William Afton and lets him know he will take the job. Steve says ok and walks him through his responsibilities and sends him on his way. A small hint to William as he reads Mikes last name notice the pause it is important. So he heads to Freddy's and that is where the fun begins. Mike has been taking meds for sleep since he has a very rough time sleeping due to him always dreaming about his kid brother who was taken away from his family when he was younger before little Abby was born. He dreams the same dream every single night trying to change the course of his past and save his brother or more so find out who took his brother. However this night at Freddy's he falls asleep but it isn't the exact same...there are 5 new kiddos in his dream and he asks them if they saw who took his brother. No one says anything but they then run away and Mike chases after them asking for help. Meanwhile things are starting to wake up inside and keep your eyes peeled because the things that go bump in the night start to watch him closely. Abby back at the house being babysat we learn she loved to draw...just so happens she has been drawing things that Mike dreams, things that are inside Freddy's but you will need to keep your eyes open for all those photos as well. She is connected to Fazbear's but why??? I guess you will have to watch it to find out. That night Vanessa who is not a security guard but is a cop in this movie shows up and meets Mike. She talks to him about the animatronics and shows him around. They become familiar with each other and then ...end of night one. Mike goes home more issues with the aunt but Mike doesn't know about what his babysitter and aunt are up to. Seems the babysitter is more than she appears and is suppose to et info on Mike they can use in court to get Aby but turns out Mike is actually a good brother and a decent caregiver so they have no other choice but to do as one of the other thugs hired mentioned to do and that is to get Mike fired...so they plan to go into to Fazbear's and trash the place which will for sure get Mike fired they think and the aunt would win custody.  Well they go up there and break in and.... that is where i will end this plot but now for my honest review.

  I dont want to give the entire story away so i will stop the story there just got watch it. I do think it is worth the watch and the new take on the franchise i actually found to be pretty good and it made sense ( had i not already had the lore from the games thought out so perfectly but it still works in a weird way) Anyways, it does stray from the games plot and you do have to remember this is a movie adaptation it is not going to be the exact same as the games ( no movie ever is whether it is comics, books, games etc) and to keep an open mind. Also please remember they are just children and they want to do children things... so people keep bitching about how they are alot friendlier then they should be but honestly no they are not. They are exactly what you would think children inside of animatronic bodies would be. Still want to have fun but sadly brainwashed by William however Abby helps them remember who they were a bit and they enjoy her company. It leads you to believe that Abby has been talking to the children well before her brother got the job there. Also makes sense since she has always kinda been connected to that place as well as her brother but you will have to watch it to find out why. 

 Ok so now for the score

Plot 8/10 i loved the reimagining and the only thing i didn't like is Vanessas back story however i am trying to work that out in my head

Scary sadly 3/10 only because there were a few jump scares but nothing scary

Creepy factor  5/10 there were some creepy parts to it and i thought the way they did the eyes really sucked you into that creepiness

Theater vs streaming value 6/10 because it was streaming you get two sides of it. I think it is way better in theaters but not good enough i would spend more money to see it again in theaters. Watching it for the 2nd time and beyond is better streaming. 

Overall 8/10  It was fun, a bit creepy, a bit scary, funny as hell at times and the story was actually pretty good if you separate it from the games.

game vs movie of course games are way better and i enjoy the lore in the games way more but the movie was good enough that i didn't mind the movies adaptation and cant wait to see the next one....looks like there is another going to happen possibly.

I do have a few easter eggs i found like the Springlock Abby sees and is taken too is Ella from the books Fazbear's Frieghts #3 1:35am. Read up on her and of course if you look in the dark in the top right corner by Chica you can see what looks like a pair of eyes...maybe its mangle or maybe its puppet not so sure let me know what you think, There are so many other little things here and there ill talk more about them in another blog.

Anyways i hope you enjoyed the read and please do watch the movie it is preetty good despite what all the people say. Remember those who are griping about it not being like the games are also the ones who thought all the marvel and dc movies were good...none of those were anything like the comics and in fact strayed so far from them it was almost hard to enjoy them unless you just never read any comic ever. I am a huge nerd and i lvoe my comics and games and movies but i also know you can not go in thinking it is going to be exact or sometimes even close...keep an open mind and heart and you may actually enjoy something.