Five Nights at Freddy's Just Isn't Any Good

There's a lot on paper which appears to be decent about the Five Nights at Freddy's adaptation, and yet the finished film simply doesn't sparkle. It isn't scary, it isn't funny, it isn't entertaining. It is a tedious hour and fifty minutes of poor choices and I walked away feeling nothing.

Josh Hutcherson and Elizabeth Lail do a solid job. Mary Stuart Masterson and Matthew Lillard do an above average, even kind of great job, but they can't make the script sing. Emma Tammi, the director, has failed to come up with even one interesting kill or genuinely scary moment.

I'm sure the film will make a lot of money and get a sequel but I think it should have delivered more given it has a twenty million dollar budget. You could have made five low budget horror pics with that money and one of them probably would've spawned a billion dollar franchise like previous Blumhouse pics.

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