Five Nights at Freddy’s Part 2 might not be a Christmas movie, but it’s absolutely the anti-Christmas movie for anyone trying to dodge holiday fluff right now.
And dodge it they did.
The fanbase showed up hard and the movie unseated Zootopia 2, pulling in around $63 million domestic and over $100 million worldwide on opening. That’s a lot more than many people expected it to do heading into the post-Thanksgiving, pre-Christmas window. This movie is hot right now in that weird in-between space where people are kind of done with turkeys but not quite ready for carols.
Domestically, that’s the second-biggest horror opening of the year for Blumhouse–Atomic Monster, after The Conjuring: Last Rites at $84 million. Yesterday’s numbers were solid too, with a drop of about 33%, which is actually better than the 39% drop the first Five Nights at Freddy’s movie took. It’s always an open question whether a film like this can keep that kind of momentum going, but at least for this weekend, it has absolutely blown past a lot of expectations—and even outpaced its own predecessor.
So, Merry Christmas to Blumhouse and the whole gang at Freddy Fazbear’s.
If holiday joy isn’t your thing this year, there’s always a killer animatronic waiting for you in the dark.
