Five Nights at Freddy’s 2

“Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” is the sequel to the 2023 horror movie “Five Nights at Freddy’s.” This sequel stars Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games), Piper Rubio (For All Mankind), Elizabeth Lail (You), Matthew Lillard (Scooby-Doo), and Wayne Knight (Seinfeld).

It’s been a year since the terrifying events went down at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. Abby (Rubio) misses her animatronic friends and decides to sneak out one night to find them. When she breaks in at night to a second closed location of Fazbear’s Pizza believing her friends are there, she unknowingly unleashes a new evil and wave of animatronics who are hell bent on bringing revenge on parents everywhere.

I went and saw this one on opening night, and just like when I saw the first one, I still haven’t played any of the video games. So, my entire review is going off of how good of a sequel it is and not compared to the games themselves. The original cast returns for this one, and there are several references to the first movie throughout the film as well as some nods to the video game. There are some good action scenes in it, and a pretty good kill scene. Overall, it’s not super action packed. It tries to rely on a creepiness factor with a new character that is introduced. I didn’t really find it creepy or scary but it’s a good horror film for a teenager or fan of the games. There are some loopholes. The biggest being an entire Fazbear’s Pizza location that is in bike riding distance for Abby, but yet no one knows it’s there in the movie. How can you have a closed down Fazbear’s location especially with what happened after the first movie, but yet have no clue of its existence? Overall, it’s not a bad watch, and it’s a good sequel that sets up for another one. I think it’s going to be like the “Scream” franchises, where they ride it until the wheels fall off. I give it a 6.5/10.

Five Nights at Freddy’s

“Five Nights at Freddy’s” is a 2023 Blumhouse horror movie based off the popular video game series with the same name. It stars Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games), Piper Rubio (Holly & Ivy), Elizabeth Lail (You), and Matthew Lillard (Scooby-Doo).

A man, who is taking care of his sister, is struggling to make ends meet so he takes a job as a night security guard at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria. An abandoned Chucky Cheese style pizzeria that was big in the 80’s, complete with a full animatronic band. The job seems simple enough, keep looters, and vagrants out. One big problem though, the animatronic band is possessed by the ghosts of dead children who have murderous intentions.

This looked like a movie that could go either way, but with murderous animatronics it definitely has a creepy vibe to it, so I figured I would check it out. I haven’t played any of the “Five Nights at Freddy’s” games, so I don’t really know the lore behind it. If so, I probably would have enjoyed it more. To me, it was pretty boring. It’s a lot of build up with very little return. The animatronics aren’t in it a whole lot till about the last 30 minutes or so, before that it’s a slow ride. The last 30 minutes does save it some, but not enough to give it a real high score. When the lights came on there was a huge ovation, I looked around and it was a theater full of kids 12 and younger. Take that as you will, but it’s probably more of a horror suited for teens. I give it a 6/10.

Countdown

If you could find out the exact moment of your death down to the hour, minute, second, would you do it? This is the question ‘Countdown’ asks. In our modern tech savvy world everything is just a download away with an app on our phone. Countdown is an app that does just that, it lets you know the exact moment of your death. The story follows a young nurse (Elizabeth Lail) who downloads the app out of curiosity, and finds out she only has hours left to live. She runs into a guy (Jordan Calloway) who also downloaded the app, and also has hours left to live. They are determined to find a way to get rid of the app and will do whatever it takes. Only one problem, that’s a breach of contract with the app, and death will still come.

It’s your typical pg 13 horror film, it’s not R so it needs to rely on the story and jump scenes vs gore, nudity, and language. The Acting is pretty good, and it’s actually a good movie. It’s not scary, but it does have a creepy factor going for it. It’s worth a watch.