I watched the trailer for "Five Nights at Freddy's" twenty-five times before I
went to see the film. That's not an estimate. I watched it exactly twenty-five
times. I know the exact number, because it was shown before every film at the
Fantasy Film Festival last month. That's how many films I watched.
Having said that, the trailer gave me the wrong impression. It looked like a
security guard taking his daughter with him to work at an abandoned
fairground, where he was attacked by killer robots. But that's not what
happens in the film. First, it isn't his daughter, it's his (much) younger
sister. Second, it's not a fairground, it's a pizza parlour. Third, the robots
aren't killers. Not all of them, anyway.
Mike Schmidt is a socially awkward young man. He's done a series of jobs, but
he's always fired within a few weeks. After the death of his parents in an
accident he's taking care of his younger sister Abby. Her age isn't stated,
but the actress who played her was seven at the time of filming. Abby is
distant, maybe due to the loss of her parents. She spends all her time drawing
pictures or talking to an imaginary friend.
Mike is offered a job as a night watchman at a disused pizza parlour called
Freddy Fazbear's. It needs protection against vandalism. The pizza parlour is
full of still functional pinball machines, and there are also giant animal
robots that play music. When it's least expected they come to life. Abby makes
friends with the robots and plays with them every night.
So there's no danger? Of course there is, but I'm not going to give away
everything. All I'll say is that Mike is haunted by dreams of his brother
being abducted when they were small children. These dreams are somehow
connected with Freddy's Pizza Parlour.
Based on what I've read, critics don't like the film, but it's been a
commercial success with the public. The fans are right, the critics are wrong.
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