It has been a long journey, too long if you ask the bestselling horror video game’s fans, but a Five Nights at Freddy’s movie is finally upon us. Blumhouse and Universal have unleashed animatronic mayhem in the newly-released trailer, which looks incredibly faithful to the source material. After nearly a decade of trying to get this movie off the ground, it’s the least they can do for everyone who is anticipating the film’s Halloween release.
The footage shows star Josh Hutcherson as Mike, the troubled security guard working the late shift at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. He soon comes to discover that getting through the night comes with unique challenges.
Here’s the synopsis: The film follows a troubled security guard as he begins working at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy’s won’t be so easy to make it through.
Hutcherson is joined in the cast by Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Kat Conner Sterling, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Matthew Lillard as villain William Afton, creator of the deadly Funtime Animatronics.
Emma Tammi directs from a script co-written by Seth Cuddeback and franchise creator Scott Cawthorne. Cawthorne had given up on the movie a few years ago before Blumhouse swooped in for the rescue. Some of the project’s momentum was also hurt by the 2021 release of the Nicolas Cage flick Willy’s Wonderland which shares the same basic premise.
Five Nights at Freddy’s will hit theaters and Peacock on October 27th.
