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  • Fnaf 2 becomes the must see anti holiday movie

    Fnaf 2 becomes the must see anti holiday movie

    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.

  • Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 will be fine even if it is awful

    Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 will be fine even if it is awful

    Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 Is About to Chomp Zootopia 2

    Five Nights at Freddy’s Part 2, the sequel to the initial hit, is about to take down Zootopia 2 at the box office this weekend. If you look at the Rotten Tomatoes website, you’d never expect that to happen. Right now it’s sitting at one of the lowest critic scores we’ve ever seen ..just 12%. That’s it. That means the overwhelming majority of movie critics basically despise this film and think it’s a waste of time to watch and maybe even a waste of time to make.

    But this is a tale of two cities and two audiences. While critics hate it, people in general love it, with an 89% audience score from 500+ verified ratings. The original movie made about $297 million on a $20 million budget, and it’s expected that this sequel might actually do even better.

    Is it going to be Oscar-worthy material? Probably not. It might not even be the best movie you’ve ever seen. But it’s doing something critics haven’t really tapped into.

    For a long time, 80s and 90s nostalgia reigned supreme. That era is fading. People now can’t always relate to a time and place that’s long gone, but they can relate to a time when they were playing this game.. or when they were parents of kids who were playing it in the mid-2000s. That’s what we have here: an homage to new nostalgia, something different and unique to this generation of people growing up now, and to Millennials who are older and had kids who downloaded this game. Parents and kids alike enjoyed playing it.

    Remember from in the mid 2000 teens how many Five Nights at Freddy’s–themed birthday parties we saw? That’s the energy showing up at the box office now.

    What this really shows is how little critics matter anymore. There was a time when a movie poster could boast a perfect score with critics or a Roger Ebert quote on the back of the VHS and that meant everything. Those days are so far gone they’ve turned to dust. Now it’s word of mouth, social media, instant reviews, and live theater reactions that matter, and that’s what’s happening here.

    We haven’t seen Five Nights at Freddy’s Part 2 just yet. We will. And when we do, even if it’s the “worst movie of all time,” guess what?

    We will probably enjoy it.

  • Christmas in July: Trailer Friday

    Christmas in July: Trailer Friday

    Two new trailers are out this week–one for a sequel and the other revealed at Comic Con in San Diego for a Stephen King short..

    First the King..

    Written by  are Strange Darling‘s JT Mollner, The Long Walk stars Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza), Charlie Plummer (Spontaneous), Judy Greer (Jurassic World), Mark Hamill (Star Wars, The Fall of the House of Usher)
    The Long Walk is one of numerous novels King published under the pseudonym, Richard Bachman — a list that also includes The Running Man, which has its own adaptation coming later this year from Edgar Wright. Originally published in 1979, King cites it as the first novel he ever wrote sometime in the late 1960s, years before Carrie ever hit shelves, and was initially collected in 1985’s The Bachman Books.

     


    Next we roll on to FNAF..

    Based on Scott Cawthon’s blockbuster horror game series, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is again directed by acclaimed returning filmmaker Emma Tammi (The Wind, Blood Moon). The first film followed Mike, a troubled young man who reluctantly takes a job as a night security guard at an abandoned theme restaurant, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria, hoping it will help him retain custody of his young sister. That fateful decision instead drags him into the black heart of a supernatural nightmare. Mike’s story continues in the upcoming sequel. One year has passed since the supernatural nightmare at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza…

    And this one what Blumhouse is basing some major hopes on..

  • $78 MILLION AT FREDDY’S!

    $78 MILLION AT FREDDY’S!

    Move over movie critics.. You officially don’t matter.

    The reviews are in. They aren’t pretty. And no one who wanted to see the film cared.

    Now did people want to enjoy or just laugh? Tough to tell..

    But Blumhouse will laugh to the bank regardless with a $78 million weekend for a film that was not predicted to get close to MARIO BROS levels..

    Other poms poms for Freddy‘s:

    –Biggest opening weekend for a horror pic YTD, besting Scream VI ($44.4M)

    –Third biggest opening ever for a videogame pic, behind Super Mario Bros ($146.3M) and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ($72M)

    DEVELOPING..

  • Box Office: Five Nights at Freddy’s Sees ‘Oppenheimer’-Like $10M Previews

    Box Office: Five Nights at Freddy’s Sees ‘Oppenheimer’-Like $10M Previews

    This is amazing! Keep spiting those reviewers who don’t matter!

    Enjoy the season!

    This from DEADLINE:

    SATURDAY AM: Refresh for more analysis and chart Universal/Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s is meeting the expectations of all those crazy projections that were out there. Since yesterday midday when we saw $68M, the Emma Tammi directed feature take of the videogame, which is also co-written by the game’s creator Scott Cawthon is looking at $78M weekend. Some have this movie at near Oppenheimer‘s opening ($82.4M), not that the movie will leg out to north of $300M in the end, but it’s fun to see how Universal in its marketing, literally repeated that type of moviegoer turnout again; another title here that’s harnessed the spirit of fans.
    — Read on deadline.com/2023/10/box-office-five-nights-at-freddys-1235584788/

  • Reviews are in: FIVE NIGHTS at FREDDY’S tracking low in the rotten tomatoes count.. but who cares!! See it anyway!!

    Reviews are in: FIVE NIGHTS at FREDDY’S tracking low in the rotten tomatoes count.. but who cares!! See it anyway!!

    …maybe the movie just needed NIC CAGE like Willy’s Wonderland..

    After all the build up to FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’s, the reviews are in. Rotten Tomatoes is counting it as as rotten..

    At PG-13, will the pre and just teens go see the FNAF film that they played all through their single digits??

    At the time this is written, it has a 25% critic score.

    But what do they know anyway!?

    Just a few snippets:

    “Caught between PG and R, as well as lost at the crossroads of inadvertent comedy and horror, the PG-13 Five Nights at Freddy’s has to go down as one of the poorest films in any genre this year.”

    “A weird horror concoction, fleetingly clever in the early going before gumming up the gears down the home stretch.”

    “One problem is that the title imposes a stop-and-start structure which keeps killing the momentum. One scary night would work better than five with time-outs for daytime plot about the evil auntie or a deep backstory.”

    “Expanding the game’s simple, primal premise with a surfeit of character melodrama, it’s a Five Nights at Freddy’s that labors under the bizarre assumption that the loyal fanbase wants a lot of extraneous plot surrounding the fun-center horror.”

    But does it matter???

    We are getting word of this tonight: Five Nights at Freddy‘s is eyeing a $50 million-plus start and possibly even more. At that level, it would make it the second-best domestic box office opening of the fall behind Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour !!

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    Developing this weekend…

  • At least it is not going to be TWO HOURS AT FREDDY’S

    At least it is not going to be TWO HOURS AT FREDDY’S

    The rumors of a 3 hour FNAF movie are not true.. more like an hour and 50 minutes of fun.

    Despite people’s objections the concept was perfect for a film adaptation and we hope it’s as fun as the original game was years ago when it was released..

    No, The FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S Movie Is Not 3 Hours Long

    AMC Theatres has revealed the runtime for the upcoming video game adaptation, and it’s actually quite reasonable.

    There has been a lot of pre-release hostility for this movie, even before people see it. Will it be OSCAR worthy or even CHAINSAW AWARD worthy? No! But it does not have to be. If it provides jump scares, tacky humor, a few creepy parts, and something that could be teenage friendly, that is all we need.

    The game was a phenom.. the movie won’t be.. But if it captures the right audience, a lot of 12-14 year old kids who played the game as a child will flock to theaters. Of course they need to go with an adult as it is rated R..

  • Matthew Lillard set for FNAF movie!

    Matthew Lillard set for FNAF movie!

    After all these years of speculation.. finally some hard news on a movie that has been talked about since 2014..

    Deadline confirmed that the FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S movie is going to feature Scream icon Matthew Lillard and The Hunger Games’ Josh Hutcherson.

    Jason Blum confirmed on Twitter earlier this year that filming for Five Nights at Freddy’s would start in February 2023, with Emma Tammi (The Wind, Into the Dark) directing and FNaF series creator Scott Cawthon writing and producing.

    Jim Henson’s Creature Shop will be working alongside Blumhouse to bring the game’s animatronics to life..

    Everything seriously sounds like it’s finally coming together .. crossing fingers for a watchable adaptation!!

  • A great response to my post about FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S

    A great response to my post about FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S

    A great response to my post about FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S:

    Yesterday I posted a piece of my mind about the horror game series FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S..I questioned how young was too young for a child to play..where the fascination came from.. I recalled my own childhood and my own appreciation of certain pop culture horror icons…
    And I got a great response as a result on the linked Tumblr site.

    The post, in full, below:

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    Mmmm. I usually don’t like to comment on tumblr too much but. I’m pretty sure before this so called “youtube channel” started playing it, there was a ton of kids who were into it when the second game came out. What you’re dealing with here isn’t blood and the “horror story” in FNAF. It’s more of the 5-6 year olds who make the fandom of FNAF. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve played all the FNAF games and I love the storyline (which is aimed at teens mostly), but I choose to play the games and not get caught in the cancerous fandom. I’m guessing kids like to be…edgy??? It’s the same thing with Undertale. And especially when Creepypastas were super popular, kids loved it and drawing gorey fanart for it. The vast majority of the influence is from the internet though. I’m not too sure if what I said helped? I can’t really give an answer to what age is appropriate to show horror to kids, because the internet has already thrown kids into a mess of fandoms.

    That last part especially makes sense it me.. the internet is throwing kids into a mess of fandoms. I don’t think I could have summarized it better myself.. it’s true and accurate..

    Everyone has a channel..youtube killed the video star and everyone has a voice. And a game controller..

    Kids do like to be edgy. My own son, now just shy of age 6 by a day, is trying to already be his own person. He is developing his own character.. he is interested in scary things, he’ll even listen to some moments of paranormal radio that I listen to before getting bored at all the old people talking and talking and talking. But FFAF? That is allowing him to go against the grain and be his own edgy little self.

    Good post .. I am happily linking it..

    Would love to continue to hear thoughts on this matter.. Comment below or email me at bryan@horrorreport.com any time..

  • A great response to my post about FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S

    A great response to my post about FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S

    A great response to my post about FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S:

    Yesterday I posted a piece of my mind about the horror game series FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S..I questioned how young was too young for a child to play..where the fascination came from.. I recalled my own childhood and my own appreciation of certain pop culture horror icons…
    And I got a great response as a result on the linked Tumblr site.

    The post, in full, below:

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    blockquote>

    Mmmm. I usually don’t like to comment on tumblr too much but. I’m pretty sure before this so called “youtube channel” started playing it, there was a ton of kids who were into it when the second game came out. What you’re dealing with here isn’t blood and the “horror story” in FNAF. It’s more of the 5-6 year olds who make the fandom of FNAF. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve played all the FNAF games and I love the storyline (which is aimed at teens mostly), but I choose to play the games and not get caught in the cancerous fandom. I’m guessing kids like to be…edgy??? It’s the same thing with Undertale. And especially when Creepypastas were super popular, kids loved it and drawing gorey fanart for it. The vast majority of the influence is from the internet though. I’m not too sure if what I said helped? I can’t really give an answer to what age is appropriate to show horror to kids, because the internet has already thrown kids into a mess of fandoms.

    That last part especially makes sense it me.. the internet is throwing kids into a mess of fandoms. I don’t think I could have summarized it better myself.. it’s true and accurate..

    Everyone has a channel..youtube killed the video star and everyone has a voice. And a game controller..

    Kids do like to be edgy. My own son, now just shy of age 6 by a day, is trying to already be his own person. He is developing his own character.. he is interested in scary things, he’ll even listen to some moments of paranormal radio that I listen to before getting bored at all the old people talking and talking and talking. But FFAF? That is allowing him to go against the grain and be his own edgy little self.

    Good post .. I am happily linking it..

    Would love to continue to hear thoughts on this matter.. Comment below or email me at bryan@horrorreport.com any time..