Director: Emma Tammi

Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Elizabeth Lail, Matthew Lillard

Synopsis:

Anyone can survive five nights. This time, there will be no second chances. Blumhouse’s box-office horror phenomenon Five Nights at Freddy’s, the highest-grossing horror film of 2023, begins a blood-chilling new chapter of animatronic terror. Based on Scott Cawthon’s blockbuster game series, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is directed by acclaimed returning filmmaker Emma Tammi (The Wind, Blood Moon). The first film, which opened to a record-shattering $80 million and went on to earn almost $300 million worldwide, 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.

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The core issues of the first Five Nights at Freddy's can all be traced back to one defining problem: It's just kind of boring, with no real attempts to be truly scary and with a plot that takes itself far too seriously for its own good. Those two things were the biggest aspects needed for a course correction, and thankfully, Five Nights at Freddy's 2 does exactly that.

This may not be saying all that much, but the sequel is trying to pack in a lot more scares than the morose first movie, with admittedly the large bulk of them being loud, deafening jump scares. Those are an acquired taste for most horror fans, but in fairness, jump scares have always been in the franchise's DNA.

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