The Five Nights at Freddy’s movie is real—and now it has a release date. What’s more, Universal Pictures is following in their scary-season trend (a la Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends) and releasing the film simultaneously in theaters and on streaming.
Producer Jason Blum announced the release date on Twitter:
As promised:#FNAF FANS: You asked and we delivered. #FNAFMovie is coming this Halloween on October 27. 2023!!!!!
205 days until the party.
And that is the BIG NEWS
— Jason Blum (@jason_blum) April 6, 2023
Five Nights at Freddy’s, for the uninitiated, is a horror video game series, the first of which focused on a security guard at a pizza joint that just so happens to be full of possessed animatronic creatures (above). There are many games and books and things in this franchise, now, but the movie has been slowly trucking along for years.
In 2018, Blumhouse picked up the rights, and after various shifts and changes (truly it is wild that Chris Columbus was at one point attached to direct), the movie settled into its current form: it’s directed by Emma Tammi from a screenplay by game creator Scott Cawthon, Tammi, and Seth Cuddeback.
The cast includes The Hunger Games‘ Josh Hutcherson, original Scream creep Matthew Lillard, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Kat Conner Sterling, and… Mary Stuart Masterson? Yes, really. The horrifying animatronics are by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.
Five Nights at Freddy‘s is in theaters and streaming on Peacock on October 27th.
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