Alright get your flashlights and control panels ready, because we just got the first official
teaser trailer for Blumhouse’s Five Nights At Freddy’s movie, based on the wildly popular
video game series by the same name, and this looks to be nailing everything the fans have
been clamoring for.
Obviously we’re going to be going over everything in this teaser, small easter eggs, game references,
cameos, and where we think the story is going to take things.
But we’re also going to touch on some of the leaks, and what we’ve heard was featured
in that bigger trailer compared to this first teaser.
But no worries, we’ll warn you when any sort of borderline spoiler is coming up.
So with that out of the way, a huge thank you for clicking this, I’m your host Jared,
now let’s get into Five Nights At Freddy’s.
So before we jump into the full on trailer breakdown, I’m sure a lot of people haven't
a damn clue what Five Nights At Freddy’s is, so here’s a very brief overview of what's
going down.
Five Nights At Freddy’s is based on a video game series by the same name, I’m assuming
this will be pulling mainly from the first game, so we’ll focus on that one.
Where you play as a lone security guard named Mike Schmidt, who’s just started working
at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.
Think a nightmarish Chuck E. Cheese's, ShowBiz Pizza Place, or the one I grew up with, Pizza
Peddler.
A thing of nightmares.
Anyway all of the animatronics are haunted because their creator, William Afton, unalived
several children, and their spirits now live in the machines.
Each night they come alive, with Mike having to survive until the morning, using various
monitors, controls, and traps to ward off and avoid these demented animatronics.
The previous night guard guides Mike, leaving behind voice memo clues, and if Mike is caught
before morning, the evil animatronics try to horrifically stuff his body into a spare
animatronic body just lying around.
2021’s Willy's Wonderland, is uhhh Idk, the closest live-action interpretation of
this video game series so far.
Good, great grand, all caught up?
Now let’s get into the actual trailer.
So everything opens with what sounds like a voiceover of Mathew Lillard’s William
Afton giving a bit of the backstory on the rundown restaurant, saying how the owner isn’t
ready to let things go, as we can see a “closed” sign leaning over in the shape of Freddy Fazbear's
Pizza.
In the background we can see the entrance along with the still intact sign above.
I’m wondering if we’re going to be getting some flashback sequences sprinkled throughout
the movie, as Mike, the security guard, learns more information about the joint, or maybe
a cold open showing how things led to the closure and the incidents with the children.
Speaking of Mike, we see him pull up to the pizza joint, presumably on his first night
on the job.
Mike is being played by Josh Hutcherson, with his character hopefully being fleshed out
a bit more than the games.
He’s had a tough past, which obviously leads him to take such a sketchy job, but also has
an inquisitive knack to him, which means he’ll be digging for clues and the truth throughout
this movie.
It appears Mike is not alone, as he’s accompanied by a young girl.
At first I thought this might be his daughter, but after some digging this is Abby Schmidt,
his 10 year old sister, played by Piper Rubio.
It’s mentioned Mike has had to step in as a parent figure because their parents went
missing, with her being mentioned as creative, brave, and Like-Mike… inquisitive.
I kinda like that they will include more characters, ramping up tension a bit more, and having
them in different areas of the restaurant, dealing with different threats.
But it sounds like she’s supposed to sit still, sleep, color, stay out of the way,
all of that.
But you know damn well she’ll be the first to see some of the animatronics move, with
Mike claiming it’s her imagination.
There some more brief shots of the inside of the restaurant, as we get the “employees
only” door, with a bit of a different look than that of the games, the edge of the lite
up Freddy Fazbear's Pizza sign, which looks similar to the games, and our first full look
at Mike Schmidt, who just looks like Josh Hutcherson.
I can’t tell from this shot, but I’m curious if they’re slapping some blue contacts in
his eyes, because the only characteristic we see about Mike from the game is his blue
eyes when he’s jammed into one of the animatronics when you hit the gameover screen.
In the security room, Mike is fiddling with the power, and we can see some of the restaurant
mascots in a grid on the back of the door.
Even the controls and monitor layout is of similar format as the games, with a training
tape labeled “Mike” sitting there for him to watch.
The training video very much has that cheesy 80s/90s tone, a bit more upbeat and colorful
than the initial training tutorial from the first game.
This appears to be Kat Conner Sterling’s character slowly walking Mike through the
backstory and brighter days of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.
I’m really digging this, because it’s painting the uneasy parallel of this fun bright
happy environment, against the dark, scary current condition it’s in.
The door buzzer is very much a heavier, more industrial version, than the way it sounds
in the games when door lights are buzzing, and we’re introduced to yet another character
from the Five Nights At Freddy’s lore, Vanessa.
Played by Elizabeth Lail, it looks like they may be twisting her lore a bit.
Because in Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted, she was the main protagonist as a security
guard, whereas here she appears to be a police officer, with her alluding to knowing about
“them” aka the animatronics.
So I’m wondering if they are baking it in, as she’s already investigated these things,
and will be somewhat of a mentor to Mike’s character.
There’s a drawing on the fridge, which I’m assuming Abby draws at some point, showing
us Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, along with some ghost children, which I’m guessing
Abby saw and Mike doesn’t believe her.
Because the children’s eyes and sinister smiles tell me these aren’t the same happy
ones to show up in the training video.
Again I’m saying Abby warns Mike, with Mike brushing it off as childhood nonsense, until
he starts to investigate, which looks to be the case here, until he does what he’s not
instructed to do, annnnndddd falls asleep.
Obviously this is a big ole’ no no, and causes everything to go haywire, with Mike’s
security monitors glitching out similarly as to when there is a security breach alert
and so fourth.
But as this glitch event is happening, hardcore fans may catch the song playing on the intercom
system, the March of the Toreadors (Tor-E-Doors), which is a much more bombastic version than
the version that is played on the music box when the power goes and Freddy is near
There's some more glimpses of the abandoned pizza joint, along with our very first look
at the full scale animatronics of some of Freddy’s crew, and honestly these dudes
look great.
Front man Freddy, Chica with the cupcake and “Let’s Eat” bib looks perfect, and Bonnie
with their guitar.
Annnddd a big ole malfunction appears to happen when Mike throws the power.
This is where all of the hardcore fans will go bananas, because Mike flips through all
of the security monitors, similar to that of the game, but the same March of the Toreadors
music plays, with a much more cartoony, almost carnival like tone to each of the notes.
Which I gotta say really adds to the overall creepiness of this trailer, as Vanessa fills
in Mike about all of the missing children, and history of the building and animatronics.
And I gotta say, barely showing the kids being kidnapped or snatched up via silhouettes,
makes it feel like we the viewers are also watching through security monitors, quickly
switching between cameras, stopping like “Wait, did you see that?!”
It also looks like Abby will be exploring the building while Mike is working, and she’ll
be the one to first stumble upon the ghost children, as you can see this children running
away just disappears into thin air.
So this sequence is bound to happen before the fridge painting that we saw earlier.
I’m better our initial tour of Freddy’s will be through the eyes of her.
And then a nice homage to the jump scare/game over screens as we only see the animatronic
eyes in the otherwise dark corridor.
Hella creepy for sure.
It almost looks like they’re will be some time jumps, as there is this group of four
adults, that I a assuming are aggressively breaking into the rundown pizza place to find
their missing children, if so they are definitely fleshing out the backstory and lore surrounding
the haunted animatronics a bit more, and each of the kids in the haunted animatronics are
going to eliminate each, which I think flashbacks are the way to go about it in movie form.
The creepy thing is, some of this looks to be taking place outside of the pizza joint,
so I’m wondering if they will in fact take the multiple shifts approach, where night
one is learning the tutorials, night two is weird stuff happening, night three Vanessa
shows up filling in Mike of the backstory, and so forth, because Mike is clearly exploring
some sort of wooded area, with a symbol of a rabbit being drawn into the dirt, referencing
Bonnie or maybe even Springtrap from the looks of it later in the trailer.
The visuals of the 4 missing children here, surprisingly share characteristics of each
of the animatronics that they then possess.
Starting from the right, the boy is wearing bunny ears and a purple shirt referencing
Bonnie the rabbit.
Next is the orange shirt, with what looks like a hook for a hand, of course referencing
Foxy, tying in with the more pirate-like characteristics.
The next kid is wearing a similar hat that frontman Freddy wears.
And lastly, the little girl has the same color palette as Chica, with her shirt also looking
sorta kinda like a bib.
Now who knows if this is why the animatronics have these features, or if it’s a cool characteristic
choice, either way, that is our main four from the first game.
Anyway it sounds and looks like the main goal of the animatronics seems to be capturing
Abby and having her join the ranks of the other 4 haunted children.
And with the drawing showcasing five children holding hands with a larger bunny, I have
a feeling this bunny is referencing SpringTrap that we see later in the film.
And of course, if you know your Freddy’s lore, this one of the resurrected forms of
William Afton.
So it looks like this will be how Mathew Lillard’s character is included.
I’m sure we’ll get more backstory on him, and why he eventually goes made, but yeah,
this bunny drawing, combined with this 5th animatronic spells this out.
So the writer’s are definitely pizza picking pieces of lore here or there from various
games.
Here Mike looks to be caught, similar to the games, where one of the animatronics pops
up and gives the player a gameover screen, but instead he’s strapped to a chair in
some sort of torture device.
I’m curious if this is newer stuff added, combined with Sister Location animatronic
features, because each of those had like child luring features and the grinding gears could
be how those children perished.
Either way I like how the visuals mirror the game, while also separating itself.
The trailer pretty much ends with quick flashes of events, a child being driven away, which
I’m assuming is a memory of Mike as a child.
Vanessa seems to be in the hospital, with Mike by her side, so she’ll no doubt be
attacked during one of the nights after she’s filled in Mike about all of the weird stuff.
It looks like some flashbacks to Mike beating someone in a fountain.
Maybe this explains his backstory and why he had to take this job, along with SpringTrap,
who again sounds like he is being voice by Mathew Lillard tracking Abby.
The final bit is a nice little easter egg to fans, as the taxi driver is a cameo from
Youtuber Coryxkenshin, who of course is a big fan of the franchise, streaming it, helping
it grow the cult following that it does.
There’s also been a rumor of Markiplier making a cameo, so we’ll see if that’s
the case for the final film.
Before we wrap up, I wanted to talk about some spoilers from the Freddy’s games, that
could potentially be part of the story in the movie, so uhhhh this is your spoiler warning,
check the monitors, you don’t want to have a jumbo scare of spoilers.
Okay, so in later games, it’s implied that Mike Schmidt is actually the son of the evil
animontronic’s creator William Afton.
And part of me thinks they are going this route, with Mike having a cloudy past, unable
to remember his parents, specifically his father.
And this is why SpringTrap aka William Afton or his transcendence form, wants Abby, because
she is theatrically his daughter.
So yeah from this trailer it looks like they are about to pull a Star Wars Empire Strikes
Back, Mike I am your father type bomb in the third act of the film.
It would be a great twist, so we’ll see.
Anyway that is everything we know about Five Nights At Freddy’s all jam packed into this
trailer.
Please me know how much I missed, because I’ve only watched friends play through these,
so very little first hand experience.
But yeah, what are you most excited about, what small details and easter eggs do you
hope make the final movie?
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