Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 Review: The Video Game Movie Sequel Limbos Under The Low Bar Set By The First Film

Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, and Piper Rubio in Five Nights At Freddy's 2 .

To put it plainly, director Emma Tammi’s Five Nights At Freddy’s is a bad movie, and experience has led me to have an instinctual wariness when it comes to sequels to bad movies that also happen to be extremely popular. I generally like to think of follow-up films as exciting opportunities for creatives, as all the groundwork is laid for potentially blue sky storytelling with the established world and characters… but the rub when it comes to bad movies is about expectation: if audiences were happy to tolerate the flaws of the predecessor, one can’t expect those problems to be rectified/addressed in the aim of the filmmakers to give movie-goers more of what they apparently want.

Five Nights At Freddy’s 2

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Release Date: December 5, 2025
Directed By: Emma Tammi
Written By: Scott Cawthon
Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Freddy Carter, Theodus Crane, Wayne Knight, Teo Briones, Mckenna Grace, Skeet Ulrich, and Matthew Lillard
Rating: PG-13 for violent content, terror and some language
Runtime: 104 minutes