These days cinema and video games are so integrated that we see multiple media adaptations of the franchises we love. While earlier video games used to be adapted from popular franchises and comics, these days we see a bucket load of video game live action/anime adaptations. Latest one added to this list is Emma Tammi’s Five Nights At Freddy’s. The film stars Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Matthew Lillard, and follows a troubled security guard who accepts a night-time job at an abandoned family entertainment center, where he discovers its four animatronic mascots move and kill anyone that is still there after midnight. Well, now that the film is almost here, so are the leaks and spoilers and that is exactly what this article is about.
Five Nights At Freddy’s Full Plot Summary and Recap
With the film’s release being just a couple of days away, the review embargo for Five Nights At Freddy’s has finally lifted. As many of the fans expected, the reviews aren’t good and so is generally the case when embargos are delayed till the end. Anyways, since the film has had its premiere in UK and some other regions, the full plot summary for the film is now out. Therefore, only the fan who are comfortable with MASSIVE SPOILERS must proceed with the article from this point on.
Much like the plot of the first video game in the series, Five Nights at Freddy’s revolves around five children who went missing during the 1980s, causing Freddy Fazbear’s pizzeria to close down. Blissfully unaware of this, out-of-luck Mike (Hutcherson) is desperately looking for a new job after being let go from his previous security position. He has sole custody of his little sister Abby (Rubio), although their Aunt Jane (Mary Stuart Masterson) is taking legal action against him to care for Abby instead. Mike approaches careers expert Steve Raglan (Matthew Lillard) in a desperate plea to get work. Raglan tells Mike that his only option is to take on a badly-paid, high-turnover security job at an abandoned pizzeria.
During his first night shift, fans learn more about Mike’s backstory. While falling asleep on the job, he dreams about his young brother Garrett (Lucas Grant) who was kidnapped as a child during a family camping trip. When Mike dreams about Garrett for a second time, he finds five children in his dream who try to hurt him. With his first night uneventful, police officer Vanessa (Lail) drops by during his second night, explaining more about the pizzeria. The five children Mike sees in his dream are the children who disappeared from the restaurant back in the ’80s, with the case unresolved. When the children harm Mike in his dream, he gets harmed in real life, leading to his suspicions that something isn’t right about the abandoned pizzeria.
At the same time, Aunt Jane tries to sabotage his job by enlisting Abby’s babysitter Max (Kat Conner Sterling) and her brother to purposefully trash the restaurant in the hopes of Mike losing his job. When the group – joined by Carl (Joseph Poliquin) and Uncle Hank (Christian Stokes) – go in, they’re killed one after the other by the animatronics. Fans also see a former security guard killed by Freddy and Co. in the film’s opening moments. Managing to escape from a Saw-like fate, Mike wakes up in a police outpost with Vanessa, who has dressed his wounds. She reveals that she’s known about everything all along, including that the children want Abby in exchange for information – or deluded dreams – about Garrett.
Vanessa explains that her dad used to work at the pizzeria as a yellow rabbit, which is a motif seen on the derelict walls in the restaurant in children’s drawings, as well as being something the dream children talk about. Vanessa’s dad was a man named William Afton, who snatched the five children and put them where nobody would think to look – inside the animatronics themselves. Not only was Afton also responsible for taking Mike’s brother Garrett, but he’s also the same person as Steve Raglan, the careers expert from earlier on. While Mike has been out, a defunct version of Freddy goes to collect Abby at the house, killing Aunt Jane in the process. When they get back to the restaurant, the animatronics turn on her, each trying to kill her.
Mike races back to the restaurant, tasers in hand, just in time to stall the bulk of the dolls before the yellow rabbit arrives. Facing off against all the animatronics, Afton reveals it was he who took and killed Garrett, inviting the ghost children to kill Mike. Vanessa arrives to help, but Abby has a plan to finally reveal the truth. Drawing a picture, she communicates to the children what the yellow rabbit has actually done, using the animatronics to take him down instead. Fast forwarding, Abby seems settled at school but occasionally asks to revisit her friends. Mike says that they never know what might happen. The child version of Freddy is seen back at the restaurant, watching the slow death of Afton in the rabbit costume. This is where the credits roll.
Five Nights at Freddy’s is all set to release in theatres and on Peacock on October 27, 2023.
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