On Dec. 5, the “Five Nights at Freddy’s” franchise released a sequel film based on the horror game Five Nights at Freddy’s, where you play as a night guard of an old pizzeria with four possessed animatronics.
Emma Tammii collaborated with the game’s creator, Scott Cathon, to develop the first movie, which premiered in October 2023. Supporters of Scott Cathon and the franchise urged him to transform the iconic game into a film. Earning $3.9 million on its opening day at the box office, everyone was eager to see the beloved game come to life on the big screen.
“The movie was everything that I thought it would be,” junior Nikko Meekins said. “It was great seeing a game I used to play and watch others play, a surreal feeling.”
While creating the upcoming sequel, director Emma Tammi noted that there were both positive and negative aspects to the first movie. She wants to capitalize on “expanding the lore, increasing the horror and action, and incorporating fan feedback from the first film.” This was all said in a recent interview with Jacqueline Coley, who runs a show called Seen on Screen, interviewing directors on their upcoming movies and what they should expect.
The second movie in the franchise features returning animatronics from the first film, such as the nightguard, Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and Golden Freddy. In addition to our returning characters, new animatronics will be joining them. Toy Freddy, Toy Bonnie, Toy Chica, the Marionette, Mangle, Balloon Boy, Withered Freddy, Withered Bonnie, Withered Chica, and Withered Foxy. The new animatronics were created after the first movie, after the pizzeria burned down. The toy animatronics were built with the scraps of the original animatronics, which unknowingly made them act just like the originals.
The withered animatronics are the originals, just after they were scrapped to make the toy animatronics. These are dirty, beat-up animatronics who are just a shell of who they used to be. The Marionette (AKA the puppet) is the one who watches over the souls of the possessed animatronics and gives them commands. The puppet was once a child, just like the other animatronics, but instead of being stuffed into a suit when she was murdered, she was just left to rot. What drives their hatred is adults, because adults were the ones who had failed the kids, they forgot about them, they left them rotting in the animatronic suits, as well as they were killed by an adult in cruel ways
Towards the end of the movie, the night guard is confronted by the animatronics, including killer William Afton, one of the founders of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. We come to learn that years ago, William Afton disguised himself as an animatronic by using a springlock suit. The suit allowed him to move the insides of the suit and put himself into it; he was able to walk around. The spirits of the animatronics made themselves known and attacked William Afton while he was trying to kill Abby, a 12-year-old girl, and the night guard for knowing his secret. In the midst of the fighting, the springlock suit locks on William, crushing his entire body, metal rods shooting through every part of his body, making him and the suit one. While crushing his voice box, he gives his famous line, “I always come back,” and then he’s crushed to death. Or so we thought.
