10 Upcoming Movies That Are Causing Huge Controversy
5. Five Nights At Freddy's
The soon-to-release Five Nights at Freddy's movie adaptation was recently confirmed to have received a PG-13 content rating, for "strong violent content, bloody images, and language."
For many fans, this immediately got their goat, that a hit horror video game was being adapted into a "kiddie friendly" film, with some fans already writing it off as a cynically defanged attempt to make more money from younger demographics.
This of course ignores the fact that the Five Nights at Freddy's games aren't graphically violent and are in fact rated "T for Teen" by the ESRB.
Anyone who knows anything about the franchise should know that it's supremely popular among teenagers, and so it absolutely makes sense that the film adaptation isn't an R-rated gorefest.
Hopefully the promise of strong violent content and bloody images means that it'll still end up being an edgy, envelope-pushing PG-13, but all the same, the hand-wringing over its family-skewing rating is way overblown.