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The video game adaptations just won’t stop, and now they’re getting pretty spooky. Case in point: we just got a new trailer for Universal’s Five Nights at Freddy’s movie. Just like the games, the movie is an animatronic nightmare about possessed mascots at a pizza place. The movie version stars The Hunger Games’ Josh Hutcherson as a security guard struggling to deal with this reality. (If the premise sounds familiar, it might be because of the conceptually similar Nicolas Cage film Willy’s Wonderland from 2021.)
It’s directed by Emma Tammi, with Blumhouse — the horror imprint behind recent releases like The Black Phone and M3gan — producing. Five Nights at Freddy’s joins a frankly ridiculous number of video game adaptations in the works…