Doors are conveniently left ajar for further instalments, should the filmmakers and/or their financiers believe there’s a big enough market, and in the case of this second visit to the freakish Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza emporium the initial movie’s global box office take of nearly $300 million made the decision a shoo-in.
The bad guys springing back to life are, of course, the titular Freddy and his similarly animatronic pals at the abandoned pizzeria; deactivated or disassembled when we last saw them, malevolent influences conspire to reboot the toy-town terminator terrors.
The events take place a year later, focusing on an upturn in fascination with the Freddy’s brand that manifests itself in Halloween costumes, school science fair projects, and the attentions of a young team of paranormal investigators (in a very Scooby-Doo van) led by McKenna Grace, the actress taking a short stroll from the spook-chasing antics of her character in the most recent brace of Ghostbusters outings.
Therein lies the bugbear at the heart of Freddy’s 2, the returning pair of director Emma Tammi and screenwriter (and original game creator) Scott Cawthon rarely standing still long enough to give the scattergun narrative a semblance of structure.
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Considering the premise, plus the visual comportment and countenance of its villains, both Freddy’s 2 and its predecessor are curiously bereft of humour, the very few laughs limited chiefly to sight gags or five-second cameos alluding to the earlier movie.
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is released in UK cinemas on Friday 5th December 2025.
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