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Known as one of the most notorious producers in the horror segment and sometimes in the drama sector Blumhouse has positioned itself as the main label for various productions in the genre, which is why we see it as the house responsible for independent titles such as The Black Phone, but also The Gallows, which shows that Jason Blum wastes no time printing his signature. After ending his era with the Legacy trilogy with “Halloween” and now beginning with “The Exorcist,” Blum finally reveals the result of the adaptation inspired by the video games “Five Night’s At Freddy’s,” which he took over after it was rejected by Warner.
It is interesting to note that in the standoff that has been going on since 2015, Emma Tammi was chosen not only to direct the film but also to cowrite the film along with Scott Cawthon and Seth Cuddeback. Despite the presence of Cawthon (the game’s creator), the discrepancy between what the film could have been and what it unfortunately delivers is striking. In itself, the game franchise created by Cawthon contains inaccurate material regarding its story, conveying a mystery behind the simple premise that a night watchman at a fast food restaurant must survive when the place’s animatronic toys come to life every evening and turn out to be perverted killing machines.
Perhaps we could see a supernatural horror on the level of the bizarre Silent Hill films, exploring the origins behind the actions of the dolls and the restaurant until we reach Mike Schmidt, the night watchman. What we do have, however, is the lazy combination of Tammi and Cawthon in this storyline set sometime in the 2000s. Tammi, who became a reference after directing and writing the psychological horror film “Haunted Land”, tries to create a psychological and dramatic thriller, while Cawthon puts forward his comments on the game’s lore, albeit in In After an independent one Composed of a film that simultaneously sold itself as a genre blockbuster, Tammi resorts to references to pop culture while forgetting the morbid nature of the video game. Therefore, it will not be surprising to see traces of A Nightmare on Elm Street, It: The Thing and Saw in the films in a narrative that is not convincing in the least.
If you think about what works in the game, it promises a scary movie. almost paranormal experiences and a grotesque origin, but what Tammi does is make FNAF itself laugh as it does what made the game famous: what if the animatronic toys came to life? The result ranges between the ridiculous and the banal, so stupid that it seems like a big joke to see an attempt to sell the film as a psychological thriller. In its nod to this, the script attempts to create a parallel with the murderous origins of toys, kidnappings and childhood traumas of the protagonist played by Josh Hutcherson, and in fact there are more intentions in Tammi and Cawthon’s ideas than good decisions, which is further compounded by Tammi’s uncreative direction gets worse, which fails to find a tone between an atmospheric and dense film, but also settles for being a combination of generic consequences of niche films.
The examples of how Tammi’s direction is influenced draw attention in the opening scene, a moment that mimics the Jigsaw games as a demonstration of gore, but the sequence itself is rushed, with sudden cuts that make it intense and psychotic should; The consequence is that the expected FNAF has its scares in the shadow of foreshadowing and supported by jump scares, which also means that the film was limited to the Rrated rating, leaving the promise of violence and insane activities of the animatronics to the imagination . And between a script with minimal inspiration to organize the ideas being played and a desire to soften the lack of tone with awkward humor, Five Night’s manages to please audiences expecting fan service with a harmless adaptation of the favorite horror game that went viral last year Decade and after almost ten years of development delivers a remix of several titles.
One gets the feeling that Cawthon and Tammi have peppered the script with as many references as possible including Internet theories about the logic of the story as if this would create a film that feels indie, tends to overwhelm the nostalgia sensor for the to activate popular mass and horror film lovers. Whatever the case, Blumhouse’s plans are to make Five Night’s At Freddy’s: The Neverending Nightmare their next “original” horror franchise, and it shouldn’t be long before we’re back to nearly two hours of a boring movie an endless loop of expressionlessness and inspiration. If you combine The Banana Splits Movie and Willy’s Wonderland, it would be like a small taste of what FNAF would do, but with the status of masterpieces of scary and funny horror.
Five Night’s At Freddy’s The Neverending Nightmare (Five Night’s At Freddy’s USA, 2023)
Direction: Emma Tammi
Road map: Emma Tammi, Scott Cawthon, Seth Cuddeback
Pour: Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Elizabeth Lail, Matthew Lillard, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kat Conner Sterling, David Lind, Grant Feely, Tadasay Young, Wyatt Parker, Lucas Grant
Length of time: 110 mins