Get in the ball pit, kids! The bears are coming, and Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games) might not be able to hold them off for long.
That’s right: The movie adaptation of the videogame Five Nights at Freddy’s is really for real arriving this fall, and the first teaser is basically one small bite of a pizza slice. If creepy animatronic bears are your thing, you’ll definitely want more.
The Five Nights game was created by Scott Cawthon, who co-wrote the film with Seth Cuddeback and director Emma Tammi. The premise is simple enough: survive in the haunted pizza parlor, where the animatronic creatures are possessed by the spirits of murdered children. It’s clever, right? Kids keep coming to the pizza joint, so there’s an endless supply of murder victims. Though you may wonder why families keep visiting.
Hutcherson appears to be playing a newly hired guard who really has no idea what he’s in for, and his perpetual look of “Who, me?” is very appropriate for the situation in which he finds himself.
Also, in case you were wondering, the ball pit is not a safe place to hide.
The movie co-stars Elizabeth Lail (You), Piper Rubio, Kat Conner Sterling, perpetually underused Mary Stuart Masterson, and Scream creeper Matthew Lillard. Jim Henson’s Creature Shop is responsible for the terrifying creatures.
Order up a slice in theaters or on Peacock starting October 27th.
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