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7. The Animatronics - Five Nights At Freddy's
The easy highlight of last year's Five Nights at Freddy's movie was the murderous animatronic mascots rampaging throughout Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.
Courtesy of the wizards at Jim Henson's Creature Shop, the film did a fantastic job of practically recreating Freddy and his cohort of haunted animatronics, ensuring where its antagonists were concerned, the movie at least captured the spirit of the video game source material perfectly.
The rest of the film, though? Ehhh.
From the glacial pacing to the overcooked 109-minute runtime, headache-inducingly convoluted backstory, and excess of wishy-washy subplots, Five Nights at Freddy's ultimately lost sight of why people played the games in the first place.
The script and filmmaking do everything they can to work against the inherent scariness of the animatronic killers, ultimately being outdone by 2021's far more visceral - if still hardly great - Nicolas Cage-starring rip-off, Willy's Wonderland.