Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)

	Directed by: Emma Tammi	COUNTRY USA GENRE Horror NORWEGIAN TITLE Five Nights at Freddy's RUNNING TIME 109 minutes
	Produced by: Scott Cawthon Jason Blum
	Written by: Scott Cawthon Seth Cuddeback Emma Tammi

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Mike Schmidt	Josh Hutcherson
Abby	Piper Rubio
Vanessa	Elizabeth Lail
Steve Raglan	Matthew Lillard	½
Aunt Jane	Mary Stuart Masterson
Max	Kat Conner Sterling	-

Review

This one is loosely based on the famous survival horror game, and very much cluttered by substandard craftsmanship. The premise is promising enough: It involves your in-vogue 1980s nostalgia, a kid who was kidnapped, and a now grown brother who blames himself for it and is struggling to keep custody of his younger sister. Enter some clichéd nightmares and some artless mecha-inspired horror, and we’re off to something the filmmakers probably believed would become leading-edge and menacing, but which simply turns into a pulp of narrative contrivances, amateurish direction, and mechanical horror. There’s no build-up, no intensifiers, and certainly no innovation.