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"Five Nights at Freddy’s" Shatters Box Office Records with $68M Opening (ihorror.com)

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The film adaptation of the popular video game, “Five Nights at Freddy’s”, is making waves at the box office. Despite its simultaneous release on the streaming platform Peacock, the movie is projected to rake in a whopping $68M in its opening weekend according to a Deadline report.

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[–] yeti@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm honestly surprised at the audience praise, but I'm not at all knowledgable about the lore. I have fairly low standards for horror, especially around Halloween, and my expectations for this were really low: all I wanted was a guy working as a night shift security guard seeing a lot of spooky stuff. After the early sequence with the throw-away characters, I felt like there really just wasn't any horror. Once there was a threat, it was fairly immediately dispatched.

I don't mean to be a downer for anyone who enjoyed it, I just loved the idea and really wish I had liked it.

[–] VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I wrote a snippet about it here but you can skip that. It wasn't my thing either so I would not feel alone. I thought Lillard was wonderful but a lot of it was uneven. I felt more time with suspense and animatronics would have made it better. Outside of that, things often felt hamfisted. I gotta day again though, loved Lillard. I don't know the games but I wished he were the lead and it were a simpler story set just in there.