Five Nights at Freddy's is a 2023 horror film based upon the hit video game franchise of the same name. It is directed by Emma Tammi (Into the Dark, The Wind), written by Tammi, series creator Scott Cawthon, and Seth Cuddeback, and produced by Cawthon and noted horror producer Jason Blum. The cast is composed of Josh Hutcherson, Matthew Lillard, Mary Stuart Masterson, Piper Rubio, Kat Conner Sterling, and Elizabeth Lail. Jim Henson's Creature Shop worked on the film's animatronic characters.
Mike Schmidt (Hutcherson) is a young man with few prospects. Troubled by events in his past, his recent termination from his job at the mall has left him struggling to pay the bills. As providence would have it, opportunity comes knocking when he receives a job offer to act as the security guard for the local dilapidated Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria, which he takes so he can keep custody of his 10-year-old sister Abby (Rubio). Unable to contact Abby's babysitter, Mike has no choice but to take his sister along for his shift. However, what at first seems like an easy kickback job turns into a nightmare when the pizzeria’s four iconic animatronic mascots — Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy — come to life at night and start to hunt them down. Now, with the help of a police officer named Vanessa (Lail), Mike must struggle to save not only himself but also his sister from the pizzeria's dark past and the monsters that it has created.
The film was released in theaters on October 26th, 2023, and Peacock on October 27th, though it had already premiered in other countries a few days prior. A sequel is currently in development.
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Five Nights at Freddy’s includes examples of the following:
- 20 Minutes into the Past: The date on the career counseling office's security footage indicates that the movie is set in early April 2000, an update to the lore of the earliest games being set in The '90s. The cars come from no later than the early 2000s, Abby is seen watching a VHS tape on a cathode-ray tube TV, and the characters use landline phones and "dumb" cell phones instead of smartphones. The dated technology and aesthetics inside Freddy Fazbear's Pizza are at least justified by the place having been closed down since The '80s.
- Abandoned Area: Unlike the original game where Freddy's is still operating (if getting dangerously close to closing), the pizzeria Mike is hired to guard has been closed for years.
- Abuse Mistake:
- Mike sees a kid being taken by a man in the mall and assumes that he's being abducted. It's only after Mike chases after the man and starts beating him in public that he realizes that the man is the kid's dad.
- While at Freddy's, Mike hears Abby screaming and sees her being surrounded by the animatronics. Mike assumes that the animatronics are attacking her, but it turns out that they were tickling her and being friendly.
- Accomplice by Inaction: Doug, Jane's lawyer, doesn't report her, Maxine, and her brother Jeff's plan to destroy the pizzeria to frame Mike. He just says he shouldn't be hearing it and attempts to leave.
- Actor Allusion:
- MatPat plays a waiter who claims that lunch is the most important meal of the day. When Jeff asks if he means breakfast, he replies, "Some people say that, but, you know, it's just a theory." His character's name, Ness, is also a reference to his infamous memetic "Sans is Ness" theory.
- When he finally makes his big entrance to the pizzeria, Springtrap wipes his knife like Ghostface. His actor, Matthew Lillard, also played Stu Macher, one of the Ghostfaces in the first Scream movie.
- Actually Pretty Funny: Mike can't help but laugh and agree with Abby's description of their aunt Jane being mean and smelling of cigarettes.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: Various characters from later games appear much earlier (or later) than they do in the original games canon.
- Vanessa from Five Nights At Freddys VR Help Wanted and Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach appears as a local cop and is William Afton's daughter, making her a composite character with Elizabeth Afton from Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location.
- Springtrap from Five Nights at Freddy's 3 appears in the climax as William Afton in the suit, the serial killer first shown in Five Nights at Freddy's 2 and named in Sister Location.
- Balloon Boy from Five Nights at Freddy's 2 appears as a figurine that gives a jumpscare to Mike... and CoryxKenshin in The Stinger.
- Adaptational Location Change: While the games were vague about the actual location of Freddy's, other FNAF media such as Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes had been set in Hurricane, Utah. The Freddy Fazbear's Pizza in this film, however, seems to be located in Granite Falls, Minnesota (implied by the custody papers Mike recieves from Doug as well as the police cars having the initials GFPD).
- Adaptational Nice Guy: When not being manipulated by Afton, the four main animatronics can actually be pretty friendly — providing you don't start vandalizing their home, of course.
- Adaptation Amalgamation: The setup and animatronics are all based off the first game but the location is abandoned rather than operational as it is in later games and various story beats and lore tidbits from later games and the books appear. The climax is a retelling of the flashbacks of Five Nights at Freddy's 3.
- Adaptation Expansion: The story of the first game is minimal and limited to Phone Guy conversations and environmental hints. The movie expands on the story and characters, including giving reason for why Mike stuck around at Freddy's for measly pay when he knows full well there are haunted robots inside.
- Adapted Out:
- The film does away with the poor nighttime electricity of the pizzeria as a major element of conflict. While it is still present, it only comes up twice, once when Mike has to reset the breakers and isn't otherwise in danger, and again in the climax to break Afton's control over the children.Exception
- The electric doors are absent and the cameras do not halt the movement of animatronics, but are still used to monitor their whereabouts.
- Henry Emily, who is known to be William Afton's business partner in the games, is completely absent from the film. Unless he is mentioned or appears in future films, this adaptation has Afton be on his own.
- Advertising by Association: Several trailers promote Blumhouse as "the producers of M3GAN".
- Air-Vent Passageway: Several characters use the vents in the pizza place to get around or escape danger. The unnamed security guard at the start of the film climbs through a vent to sneak out of the security room as the animatronics were trying to break in. Later, Mike uses a vent to sneak into Freddy's.
- All Just a Prank: Subverted. Mike's response to finding out the animatronics are alive is to assume it's all a prank and yell for the person he thinks is controlling them to reveal themselves, but it's very much real."Okay, good joke! Congratulations, you got me! (begins to sound a little more panicked) You can come out now!"
- Ambiguously Evil: While the main animatronics are under control by Afton, it's left unclear how much this holds true for Golden Freddy or if he has his own agenda.
- Ambiguous Situation: The BB doll, despite freaking out Mike and the taxi driver, is completely benign, leaving his intentions and whether or not he's under Afton's control ambiguous. He's also implied, but never outright stated, to have his own supernatural abilities; he was able to get from the locker in Mike's office to a shelf in another room eye-level with him, and in The Stinger, he is also able to knock on a taxi door loudly enough to get the driver's attention, open the door, and climb inside despite being less than a foot tall. How he got that way is never fully explained, either. The novelization makes it even weirder, as apparently Mike has a random vision of a child he used to know in school being stuffed in a locker just before opening the locker BB's in, and somehow briefly mistakes the BB doll for an actual child when he first sees him.
- Animated Credits Opening: The opening credits feature an animated segment reminiscent of the 8-bit minigames in the original games telling the story of the Missing Children Incident as a purple man in a yellow bunny suit lures 5 kids, one by one, to the back of the restaurant.
- Answer Cut: After Golden Freddy shows up at Mike's home to kill Aunt Jane and take Abby back to Freddy's, Abby asks, "How do we get there?" Cut to a taxi, which we see Abby and Golden Freddy enter promptly afterward.
- Artistic License – Law: Mike, a mall security guard, beats the absolute tar out of an innocent man at the beginning of the movie. The only consequences he faces is that he loses his job, when he could have very easily been arrested for assault. Why this incident isn’t enough in and of itself for his aunt to get custody of Abby isn’t addressed, either.
- Ascended Extra: The Cupcake, who in the games in nothing more than Chica's prop, is fully sentient and autonomous and even functions as a sort of attack drone. Not only is it responsible for gnawing a vandal's face off, it also does some serious damage to Mike's leg when he tries to escape and triggers the springlock failure that kills Afton when Chica launches it at him.
- Ascended Meme:
- The diner where MatPat's cameo takes place is referred to as "Sparky's Diner", in reference to a famous hoax from shortly after the release of the first game, claiming that a secret sixth animatronic called Sparky the Dog could rarely show up in the backstage area. An actual inactive dog animatronic is seen later in the film, though it's unclear if this is meant to be a reference to Sparky or Fetch.
- The vandal who gets killed by the Cupcake during the break-in is stated by dialogue to be named Carl, which happens to be the long-running
Fan Nickname for the Cupcake (and still sees far more use in the fandom than its official name of "Mr. Cupcake").
- Asshole Victim:
- Aunt Jane's vandals break into the pizzeria with the intent of smashing the place up and getting Mike fired. The four of them, rather justifiably, get picked off one-by-one by the animatronics.
- Aunt Jane herself gets killed by Golden Freddy, and her death isn't even mentioned afterwards.
- William Afton, the serial killer who murdered Mike's little brother and the five Missing Children, emotionally abused his own daughter Vanessa into being his accomplice, and mortally stabbed Vanessa for trying to stop him, meets his end via springlock failure. Given everything he's done, nobody will mourn for him.
- Background Halo: When Vanessa confesses her sins of hiding her father's identity from Michael, she briefly appears with one in the form of a lightbulb behind her head.
- Bait the Dog: Subverted. The animatronics are shown to like Abby and act in a friendly manner towards her, and they don't attack Mike despite not liking him upon associating him with Abby and Vanessa. Then it seemingly turns out they want Abby to be a resident on a more permanent basis until it's revealed that the animatronics were under the control of Afton.
- Big Bad Ensemble: The film has two independent villains: William Afton, a Child Killer responsible for the downfall and haunting of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza who wants Mike and Abby to be his next victims, and Aunt Jane, Mike and Abby's disliked aunt who wants to take custody of Abby in order to receive government funding. It's also implied that Golden Freddy was not under Afton's control like the other animatronics and was pursuing his own agenda.
- Bittersweet Ending: Mike manages to save Abby from becoming William's victim, and, with Mike having resolved to move on from grieving his dead brother and parents in favor of focusing on Abby, the two come out of the film objectively better than their situation in the beginning. But the animatronics are left abandoned in the pizzeria, while Vanessa is gravely injured and may not survive. William also vows to come back while bleeding to death being trapped by the Spring Bonnie springlock suit, which is a bad omen for those who knew his fate from the games.
- Bloodier and Gorier: FNAF is a series that has largely steered clear of gore aside from William Afton's and the Crying Child's pixelated deaths in the games, preferring to relegate most other gore off-screen or to the ambiguously canon books. In contrast, the film shows a lot of brutal deaths both on and off-screen — the security guard at the beginning who gets his face sliced off by a Freddy mask with built-in saw blades, one of the thieves gets his face chewed off by the Cupcake (which we get to see the aftermath of later), and Max gets bitten in half by Freddy, marking the first on-screen female death in the series. Inverted in the case of William's death; the games showed him violently shaking and collapsing as a large puddle of blood formed beneath him, but in the film, the only visible blood is from a brief shot showing some soaking through his clothes around the springlocks.
- Brick Joke: Steve Raglan (a.k.a. William Afton) telling someone they have one job, only to give a requirement that the person he's conversing with notes makes it two jobs. The first instance is him telling Mike the Freddy's job will consist of him watching the place and tidying up, and the second is him telling Vanessa she just had to keep Mike from finding out the truth and kill him if he did.
- Cameo Cluster: CoryxKenshin, a YouTuber well known for his playthroughs of the games, appears in the film as a taxi driver. There's also an "Employee of the Month" board in the background which features multiple YouTubers known for playing the game such as Dawko, 8Bit Ryan, Bazamalam, DJ Sterf and FusionZGamer. To top it off, MatPat appears as a waiter in a local diner called Sparky's, named after a debunked Five Night's leaked image, while MatPat's character is named Ness, a reference to one of his more infamous theories. Voiceover-wise, veteran FNaF voice actor Kellen Goff lends his vocals to Foxy's song.
- Canon Foreigner: Abby Schmidt, Mike's younger sister introduced in the trailer, is completely new for this adaptation. The same thing goes for Mike's younger brother, Garrett, who, in this adaptation, is one of the children William Afton killed.
- Cat Scare: Several times, a character (usually Mike) will be jumpscared by something, only for it to just be a miniature figurine of Balloon Boy.
- Chekhov's Gun:
- The first security guard partially unscrews a bolt on the hinged mechanism holding him to the deathtrap machine. Later on, when Mike is strapped into it, this allows him to fully unscrew the bolt and lets his hand get free to unlock the mechanism by pressing a button, just in time to escape his death.
- After taking the job, Steve informs Mike of a circuit breaker in the office he'll need to reset in the event of equipment malfunctioning. Sure enough, Mike resets the breaker when the screens and intercom system go haywire after his second dream with the ghost children, as well as turn on the lights to show Abby's drawing to the animatronics.
- Garrett's toy airplane ended up being stolen from him after his murder, as Afton gave it to his daughter Vanessa. Its appearance in a childhood photo Vanessa shows to Mike confirms to him that the children's killer and his brother's abductor are one and the same.
- Chekhov's Skill: Abby is shown throughout the film to love drawing, with her teacher saying that, to children, pictures mean much more than words. Several times, her pictures are important to the plot (such as how her picture of the day Garrett was kidnapped shows Mike that the animatronics likely know what happened to Garrett). At the end, she draws a picture of Afton in the Springlock Bonnie suit killing the Missing Children, reminding them of what happened and freeing them from Afton's influence.
- Composite Character:
- William Afton, as Steve Raglan, gives Mike phone instructions and says "See you on the flipside", a likely nod to the old theory that Phone Guy was the killer in the games.
- Vanessa is a combination of Vanny, with her bipolar nature and status as the accomplice for the real killer, and Elizabeth Afton, with her explicitly being William Afton's daughter.
- Contrived Coincidence: The person who kidnapped Mike's brother somewhere in the middle of Nebraska (AKA the person he's been searching for his entire life) just happens to be the person he runs into while looking for a job, and the same person who ends up giving him his job at Freddy's.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: The Springlock Suits, just like in the game, involve the various parts of the endoskeleton snapping down onto the poor victim, killing them slowly and agonizingly. William takes weeks to die fully, assuming he hasn't already expired and possessed his suit, but given his continued twitching and moaning, he's in horrible agony regardless.
- Deadly Euphemism: The most Golden Freddy says about killing Aunt Jane once Abby sees her body:"Silly Aunt Jane. She fell asleep."
- Deal with the Devil: The animatronics offer to let Mike see his family again if he gives them Abby. He momentarily agrees only to immediately take it back — but the animatronics consider it a done deal.
- Debate and Switch: Mike is faced with the prospect of losing Abby's custody to Aunt Jane because he has been constantly losing jobs, making him not fit to support a child. This is the reason why he reluctantly takes up the job at Freddy's. Aunt Jane is unceremoniously murdered by Golden Freddy in the third act, rendering this entire subplot irrelevant.
- Decomposite Character:
- Phone Guy's character is divided between William Afton, who gives Mike phone instructions as well as taking his "See you on the flipside" catchphrase, the Freddy's employee who gives an introduction to the company on the VHS tape, and the unnamed night guard in the opening scene who died before Mike was hired.
- Elizabeth Afton’s character is split between Abby, as Mike’s younger sister, and Vanessa, as William’s daughter.
- Defiant to the End: In response to the springlock failure, Afton elects to don the Spring Bonnie mask, taunting the animatronics with a triumphant "I always come back!"
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: The ghost children in the animatronics appear to be good imaginary friends to Abby and convince her to meet them in person, but it's eventually revealed that they're all acting under Afton's influence, who seeks to make her his next victim. There appear to be clear parallels with child grooming, especially via fictional personas (although the ghost children are independent of Afton; they're just amnesiac and influenced by him).
- Do with Him as You Will: Once Abby reveals the truth about William Afton to the animatronics/ghost children, they are incensed and focus all of their attention on him, allowing Abby, Mike and Vanessa to escape while they springlock Afton into his yellow Bonnie suit.
- Dramatic Chase Opening: The movie begins with an unnamed security guard being hunted by the animatronics inside the pizzeria.
- Dramatic Drop: Jeff winds up staring directly at Bonnie after the animatronic has just killed Hank; shocked, he drops the crowbar he was using to vandalize on the floor and makes a run for it.
- Dramatic Unmask: Though it shouldn't be a surprise to fans (or anyone who followed the film's production), William Afton removing his Springtrap mask to reveal that he's "Steve Raglan" is still treated as a dramatic reveal.
- Dreaming the Truth: Attempted to be invoked by Mike. His brother was kidnapped when they were both children. Mike believes he's seen the killer's face or saw something that could help him track him down, so now he spends every night trying to control his dreams so that he can remember more about that day. It doesn't work.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Aunt Jane's death comes rather suddenly, with no mention of how it happened other than Golden Freddy stating she "fell asleep". She is never mentioned in the movie again.
- Dwindling Party: The opening sequence shows the Missing Children incident in the form of arcade pixels, with the Yellow Rabbit luring the children away from the group one by one.
- Eat the Camera: Mr. Cupcake does this when he lunges towards Carl from his POV.
- Electromagnetic Ghosts: The children haunting the animatronics are also able to influence the circuity throughout the pizzeria.
- Everybody Has Standards:
- While not necessarily evil as he is just doing his job, Aunt Jane's lawyer is visibly uncomfortable being around his client and tries to leave once he realizes what she's doing to gain custody of Abby is illegal and he can't be involved in it as a lawyer. She regularly browbeats him into staying.
- Even though they're trying to get Abby to become one of them, the animatronics look visibly alarmed when Abby is shocked by Bonnie's guitar and rendered unconscious, and allow Mike to take her from the pizzeria without any resistance.
- Max is a babysitter who, while clearly not perfect, has been watching Abby mostly for free while Mike tries to scrape together a living for him and his sister. It's revealed that she's mainly just acting as The Mole for Jane so she can get dirt on Mike, but she seems disturbed by Jane's methods and doesn't seem to believe that Jane would actually be a better caretaker for Abby. We never get to see if she would have made a Heel–Face Turn because Freddy bites her in half.
- Evil Aunt: Aunt Jane tries to take Abby away from Mike merely to receive government funding and orders her goons to arrange Mike's discharge from his new post so this can happen. She is eventually killed.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: In a rare case for the franchise, Mike spends Five Nights At Freddy's. No more, no less.
- Facial Horror:
- The first security guard at the start of the film is forced into a Shackle Seat Trap with whirring blades slowly inching towards his face, and is unable to escape it in time.
- One of the poor vandals falls victim to The Cupcake, who jumps at and attacks his face. We see the aftermath later in the film, and it is not pretty.
- Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job: Mike reluctantly takes up a job offer as a security guard for Freddy's when he's about to be evicted from his house and lose custody of his little sister Abby...and that's when the nightmare starts.
- Faux Affably Evil: Subverted. The animatronics initially seem friendly towards Abby until the reveal that they want to kill her and turn her into one of them. Except the animatronics themselves aren't evil, as Vanessa explains it — they're just amnesiac and operating under William Afton's influence.
- Fearsome Foot: There are several shots of Foxy's bare endoskeleton feet, particularly when he corners Abby hiding in the ball pit.
- Fisher King: The animatronics. Not only do they exhibit the traits of Electromagnetic Ghosts, when they learn who their killer was, the lights and ceiling tiles begin to spark and collapse as they angrily drag Afton into the back to become Springtrap.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: When Springtrap appears, he's moving a lot more smoothly than the other animatronics. That's because he's not a robot, but a human wearing a mascot suit.
- Flashback Nightmare: Mike dreams about the day that his brother was abducted when they were children.
- Flash Step: Foxy seems to perform one to get to and kill Jeff, dashing from one end to the other of a hallway during a split-second blink of the lights.note Later in the film, he does this again to chase Mike, though he manages to escape.
- Foreshadowing:
- In the intro, the camera focuses on one particular picture of a group of children with a yellow smiling rabbit. This picture is revisited later in the film as being how Springtrap controls the animatronics, by making them believe the "yellow rabbit" is their friend. The importance of the drawing is further foreshadowed by Abby's teacher (who assures Mike of Abby's focus on drawing as children communicate easily with pictures) and Abby herself (telling Mike the animatronics can't talk but do enjoy pictures).
- Shortly after this, the intro shows the Missing Children Incident, with particular focus made to a Purple Guy putting on a yellow rabbit suit before taking the children aside. This same suit, the Spring Bonnie suit, returns in the latter half of the movie, now in its more famous role as Springtrap.
- While working as a mall security guard, Mike furiously beats up a man who was apparently kidnapping a child, only to realize that he's the child's father. This reckless behavior is explained later on, when we learn that Mike is still traumatized from witnessing his little brother's kidnapping. Also, the concept of him mistakenly believing a child is in danger when the complete opposite is actually happening (a stranger abduction actually being a parent finding their lost child) possibly foreshadows him seeing Abby being surrounded by the animatronics after hearing her screaming and assuming that the animatronics are attacking her, only to find out they were just being playful with her.
- Steve Raglan gets suspiciously nervous when he learns that Mike's last name is Schmidt. This is when he realizes that Mike is the older brother of a boy that he kidnapped and murdered.
- There's a black hoodie hanging behind Steve Raglan when he's meeting with Mike. It looks just like the one the kidnapper was wearing.
- Vanessa knows a lot about Freddy's, the animatronics and the five missing kids — enough to make Mike thoroughly suspicious of her. She initially chalks this up to the pizzeria being on her beat and her having fond childhood memories of the place, but considering her father was the murderer, it's easy to figure out why she's actually so interested.
- The camera focuses on Bonnie's guitar sparking when the animatronic performance malfunctions on the second night. Two nights later, Abby is electrocuted and knocked out when she touches the guitar while Bonnie's using it.
- When Vanessa tells Mike about Freddy's being broken into, she makes no mention about what became of the vandals, seeming to imply the animatronics tidied up. In truth, she did know, and likely was the real one who tidied it up, but was keeping it from Mike.
- Fostering for Profit: Mike calls out Aunt Jane and accuses her of only wanting custody of Abby so she can get a monthly check from the government for doing so. Jane certainly seems far more interested in discrediting Mike's ability as a guardian than she is concerned for Abby's welfare, as noted by Abby's teacher Lilian and Jane's lawyer.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus:
- When Mike is talking to Lilian, the blackboard has spelling words all related to the game franchise on it: "Puppet", "Bear", "Bunny", "Manager", "Fox" and "Chick".
- During the climax, as Mike is sneaking towards the showtime stage where Freddy and Bonnie are performing while Chica takes Abby backstage to get her stuffed, the rabbit seemingly knows that Mike is approaching as he could be subtly seen fidgeting his hand towards Mike's general direction to warn and alert Freddy, which causes the bear to look for Mike before resuming the performance.
- Glowing Mechanical Eyes: The four animatronics have glowing red eyes when they are agitated. Golden Freddy, whose game counterpart is famous for having no eyes, has one glowing blue eye.
- Gory Discretion Shot: Most of the kills in the film either take place offscreen or are depicted without too much emphasis on explicit violence.
- Hair-Raising Hare: Springtrap, who appears both in the intro and latter half of the film.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Max is bitten in half after she makes the mistake of getting too close to Freddy's mouth.
- Hand Sliding Down the Glass: Hank does this when Bonnie kills him in the supply closet, complete with blood smearing on the glass.
- Hard-Work Montage: Two of them, actually.
- One occurs when Mike takes it upon himself to clean up the pizzeria after Aunt Jane's vandals wreck the place during the day.
- The other is the very surreal table fort-building montage with the animatronics, Vanessa, and Abby. However, it's revealed that the animatronics are trying to make Abby into one of them, implying that their "games" with her were merely luring her into a false sense of security, and Vanessa herself might as well be an animatronic...
- Hoist by His Own Petard: William Afton is seemingly murdered by the animatronics whom he has been controlling throughout the movie. Of course, considering who it is...
- Hydro-Electro Combo: To take out Freddy and Bonnie, Mike pours water on the stage and electrocutes the puddle with a taser once it spreads beneath their feet, causing both animatronics to shut down.
- Idiot Ball: When you hear strange sounds coming from a large, rusty, worn-down animatronic bear, the last thing anybody should do is take a closer look inside its mouth. Max finds this out the hard way.
- I'm Okay!: After Abby's suggestion of a bonding exercise involving making a fort with the animatronics, Bonnie ends up knocking himself over thanks to a lack of balance, and hits the tile floors with a loud thud. After everyone stops to check on him, he just raises his hand with a thumbs up to make it clear he's alright.
- Instructional Film: On Mike's first night at Freddy's, he finds a tape with his name on it sitting in a player that turns out to be a training tape for newly-hired security guards, which seems to be a replacement for the Phone Guy.
- Irony: The BB statue is found to be the most off-putting of the Freddy's cast by the characters, but is the only Freddy's character not to have a kill count by the end of the movie.
- Killer Rabbit: Chica's Cupcake gets an upgrade from a goofy little prop to a full-on menace all its own, capable of gnawing people's faces off.
- Kryptonite Factor: Mike is able to temporarily shut down the animatronics using electricity.
- Load-Bearing Boss: The ceiling of the restaurant starts to collapse after Afton gets springlocked.
- Logo Joke: The Universal and Blumhouse logos have video distortion over them, like the security monitors.
- Match Cut: In the first extended version of Mike's recurring dream, he gives chase to one of the Missing Children after they all run away from him, but trips on a rock. Him falling to the ground in the dream cuts into him falling off his chair onto the floor in his office.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The Balloon Boy figurine that startles Mike a couple times throughout the film just seems like a harmless toy — that is until the mid-credits scene, in which it's apparently able to get into a taxi cab all on its own.
- Missing Child: There are 6 in the movie: the 5 children that went missing at the pizzeria in the '80s, and Mike's brother Garrett, who was taken when they were both children.
- The Mole:
- Abby's babysitter Max is revealed to be working for her aunt to find anything that indicates that Mike is an unfit guardian. Max seems uncomfortable about potentially ruining Mike and Abby's lives but goes along with it, and her brother's plan to trash the pizzeria, because of money.
- Vanessa was given two jobs by William Afton, one to assist Mike with the pizzeria, and secondly, to keep Mike from finding out the truth about what's going on, and kill him if needed. She refuses to go through with the second.
- Moment of Weakness: Mike has two, both stemming from his insecurity about being able to be a good guardian for Abby. The first is when he brings Aunt Jane to the house to "discuss" the possibility of her guardianship of Abby; the second is when he agrees to give Abby to the animatronics in exchange for seeing his family again. He immediately regrets both.
- Monster Munch: The unnamed security guard at the start of the film is first seen being hunted by the animatronics in the pizzeria and is immediately caught and killed by them. He serves no other purpose in the film other than to show how dangerous the animatronics are and is never mentioned again.
- Mugging the Monster: A bunch of thieves are seen ransacking the abandoned pizzeria on the orders of Aunt Jane; as expected, things do not go well for them.
- My God, What Have I Done?:
- Mike briefly consents to giving Abby to the animatronics in exchange for seeing his family again. He instantly regrets it, but the animatronics aren't taking no for an answer — it's likely they probably wouldn't have either way.
- William Afton, of all people, seems to have a brief look of shock and sadness after he stabs Vanessa. It passes quickly, though.
- Mythology Gag: The film has quite a few covering numerous past games and books from the original series.
- The way the animatronics are lined up on the film's poster resembles the menu screen for the second game.
- The "Celebrate!" poster from the first game's office is shown off in the teaser trailer, completely unchanged and using the models from the original game.
- On the camera monitor in one shot of the film, the view of the three main animatronics on the Show Stage is identical to the positions they use in the original game.
- The establishment used in this film is certainly a recreation of the one used in the original game with a few new features added.
- Chica's Magic Rainbow appears as a decal for an ice cream store in the mall Mike works for. Additionally the store sells an ice cream flavor "Rainbow Explosion", refereincing CMR's Rainbow Cannon attack, which is essentially a rainbow explosion One-Hit Kill.
- The animatronics in the trailer having glowing red eyes is similar to the Nightmare Animatronics from the fourth game.
- Paying close attention to the logo of the building reveals it is called Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place. This is the name of the establishment from the sixth game which allowed players to design their own Fazbear entertainment establishment.
- The scene of Abby hiding in a ball pit from the animatronics is extremely reminiscent of Into the Pit, the first story of the Fazbear Frights anthology. A set of posters released alongside the film's final trailer reference the story's cover very directly.
- The official trailer makes heavy use of the Toreador March; Freddy plays a music box rendition when you run out of power in the first game.
- The first scene of the film after the opening credits starts with Mike waking up to his alarm clock at 6 AM, the time which signifies the end of a night in the original games. The shot of his alarm clock is also edited so that the time initially appears against a black background, similar to how it appeared in the games.
- Chica dispatches Carl the would-be looter by launching her cupcake at him and allowing it to chomp away at his head, echoing how Nightmare Chica's cupcake can jumpscare the Child in Five Nights at Freddy's 4. The cupcake ends up taking a bite out of Afton's suit as well, triggering the Springlock Failure.
- MatPat's cameo takes place in a diner named Sparky's, presumably named after the old fifth animatronic theory "Sparky the Dog" that circulated online around the first game's release. He even says "It’s just a theory" in his scene. In addition, a book entitled Dream Theory pops up.
- William Afton assuming the guise of Steve Raglan and giving Mike instructions over the phone is likely a nod to an old theory where many people (most notably the previously-mentioned MatPat) suspected that the Phone Guy in the games was actually the murderer.
- The springlock suit that Chica tries to force Abby into looks a lot like Circus Baby, who's possessed by Elizabeth Afton in the game continuity. She may also be a reference to Ella, a different animatronic from the book series.
- Vanessa is Vanessa Afton, directly referencing one of the biggest theories from Help Wanted onward, that Vanessa A.'s last name is Afton and her father Bill is William, and Vanny's role in Security Breach, Vanessa both helping out Mike in running the pizzeria... as well as helping the animatronics in sealing Abby into another suit and William Afton in making sure there are no witnesses.
- The latter half of the ending credits features a haunting remix of the tune "My Grandfather's Clock", the same tune being used for the Puppet's music box in Five Nights at Freddy's 2.
- Parts of an animatronic dog are seen in the parts and service room, which hearkens back to either the Sparky the Dog meme or Fetch.
- Balloon Boy's appearance as a figurine is reminiscent of the Fazbear Frights story "Sergio's Lucky Day", which featured a toy version of Balloon Boy as the story's villain.
- Mike and Vanessa using electric weapons to stun the animatronics seems to nod to the "controlled shock" mechanic that first appeared in Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location.
- Foxy manages to get down a straight corridor very fast at least twice during the film while chasing his targets. This could be a nod to how Foxy's unique mechanics had him literally sprint down the corridor to the office once he left Pirate Cove in FNAF 1.
- When Foxy is running towards Jeff to kill him, he makes the same screaming sound used during jump scares in the first game.
- The animatronics perform whenever a button labeled "Showtime" is pressed. This was an element from Help Wanted that was planned but ultimately unimplemented.
- Just like in The Silver Eyes, the movie's climax sees William confront the heroes in his full Spring Bonnie getup and fall victim to the fateful springlocking incident responsible for his transformation into Springtrap.
- During Vanessa's visit to Mike's house, Abby wears a red sweater reminiscent of the one worn by Cassie, the protagonist of Security Breach's Ruin DLC.
- One of the looters has a T-shirt with a screen from the Midnight Motorist minigame from Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator emblazoned on it.
- Max is bitten in half by Freddy's animatronic jaws, referencing the infamous Bite of 1987 and the Bite of 1983.
- A dust-covered mirror has the "It's me" message from the first game written on it.
- The security office features the iconic fan and telephone (though no Phone Guy).
- After Mike gets his hand slashed by the child inhabiting Foxy in his dream, there's a jumpscare of said child screaming with black fluid leaking from his eyes, a nod to the ghostly posters from the first game.
- William Afton's costume is only ever referred to as the "Yellow Rabbit" instead of "Spring Bonnie" like in the games. Before Golden Freddy received his official name in the second game, his model file in the first game was called "Yellow Bear", which fits with Afton's Bonnie suit being his counterpart.
- When Balloon Boy appears in the locker to give a cat scare to Mike, he's shown sitting next to a flashlight, a nod to his infamous reputation of disabling the players flashlight, preventing them from stopping Withered Foxy from killing them in FNAF 2.
- When we first see the animatronics behind the curtains, Chica's face is angled similarly to Withered Chica's in the FNAF 2 trailer.
- The Rules poster taped to Mike's Office wall is directly lifted from Phisnom's FNAF Plus. Notably the only reference to the Fazbear Fanverse Initiative in the movie.
- William Afton being exposed via a drawing showing him as evil is taken from Five Nights at Freddy's: The Fourth Closet.
- At the end of the movie, William Afton's constant twitching in the Springtrap suit is reminiscent of the way Springtrap was originally introduced in the trailer for FNAF3
- Not from the movie, but freddysfanzone.com's hit counter is provided by an entity known as "PhoneGuy Freewarez".
- When William Afton reawakens the shut down animatronics, Chica's Cupcake is seen lying on the floor and after the light flickers it is suddenly standing back up. This is a reference to how Scott Cawthon masks the movement of the animatronics without animation, via flickering lights, camera static or anything that obscures the player's vision.
- Never Recycle a Building: Justified. Freddy's Pizza is closed, but the owner is paying to keep it operational (if poorly maintained), so it still has utilities and working security systems.
- Never Trust a Trailer:
- The official trailer has a scene where a napping Mike suddenly wakes up to the sound of the Toreador Song. In the film itself, Mike is instead woken up by the Romantics' "Talking in Your Sleep".
- In the film, there's a brief shot where the camera pans to Freddy as he stands behind Mike. The trailers frame this scene as a scary moment, as if Freddy was silently stalking Mike from behind. In the actual scene, Freddy doesn't do any harm.
- Springtrap doesn't chase Mike like the trailers imply, nor does he ominously hum the Toreador Song.
- In fact, the Toreador Song is heavily advertised in the trailers, but seldom plays in the movie.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Had Aunt Jane not been so desperate to sabotage Mike that she sent goons to smash up Freddy's, and gotten Max killed in the process, there's a good chance Mike would've met the same fate as all the previous unlucky guards and custody of Abby would've been hers. Instead, because of him being forced to bring Abby to the pizzeria, the animatronics reluctantly held off from killing Mike initially due to his relation to their new friend, and when Jane does babysit Abby on Mike's final night, she is killed by Golden Freddy to get Abby back to the pizzeria.
- No-Sell: The taser rod that Vanessa gives Mike is able to do quite a lot of damage to the animatronics, but when faced with Spring Bonnie, it shorts out with minimal effect. Similar to using a taser on thick clothing, the voltage never got to the person inside the suit...
- Offing the Offspring: William Afton brutally stabs his daughter Vanessa in the stomach when she tries to stop him in the climax. Mike and Abby carry her to safety, and she's later seen in a hospital, but she's in a coma and it's unclear if she'll recover.
- Ominous Visual Glitch: The security guard training tape Mike is left with on his first night at Freddy's glitches intensely when it first shows the animatronics, returns to normal immediately afterwards, and then glitches again at the end so much that Mike has to turn it off.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The normally kind-hearted Vanessa threatens to shoot Mike if he brings Abby back to Freddy's a third time as she's trying to protect her from a Serial Killer who targets children.
- Or Was It a Dream?: When Mike interacts with the spirits of the missing children in his dreams, one of them attacks him, making a gash in his arm. The gash also shows up on his arm in real life, giving Mike the first clue that something supernatural is going on in the pizzeria.
- Out of Job, into the Plot: Mike is fired from his mall security job early in the film, forcing him to take a night job at Freddy's, which starts the plot.
- Out of the Frying Pan: One of the thugs (Hank) tries to run away from an animatronic after watching it kill one of his associates. He runs into a storage closet, but discovers that not only has the lock jammed shut, but Bonnie's already inside with him. The thug is then immediately killed.
- Parental Abandonment: Mike and Abby live together alone. Their mother died a while back, while their father left the family because he couldn't handle her death.
- Picture-Perfect Presentation: The first of Mike's dreams in the film is transitioned into through subtle use of this trope set up by the ritual he uses each night in order to have Recurring Dreams of the day Garrett was abducted: listening to nature sounds and staring at the trees on a poster of Nebraska (where his family was camping on that day) taped to the ceiling. As Mike gets closer to falling asleep, the camera pushes into the trees and they eventually start moving, after which he fully falls asleep and the dream begins.
- Police Brutality:
- The first act of the film has Mike, while on the job as a mall security guard, beat up a man he mistook for a kidnapper.
- Vanessa outright threatens to shoot Mike if he brings Abby back to the pizzeria a third time. Justified since she's trying to protect Abby from her father, who's a serial killer that targets children and has supernatural control over the possessed animatronics.
- Practically Different Generations: Mike is a grown man who seems to be in his twenties, and his younger sister Abby appears to be younger than 10. He is also her legal guardian. Abby is at an age of needing to be attended to by a babysitter, which Mike can't afford. After Max's death, this forces him to bring her along to his shift at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria.
- Prefers the Illusion: The spirits attempt a Deal with the Devil with Mike by promising him that he can have his family back in the dream world, as if Garrett had never been taken, if Mike agrees to let the spirits take Abby. Mike initially says yes upon seeing Garrett's face, but almost immediately regrets it.
- Quotes Fit for a Trailer:
- Vanessa's line "Prepare to have your mind blown," originally said to Mike before turning on the animatronics, was used to this effect in trailers.
- Abby's line "Can we go home now?" was used in several trailers after they showed a montage of frightening moments from the movie.
- The post-release trailer for the movie follows the narrator's declaration that it's the #1 movie in the world with Steve Raglan saying, "Oh, it absolutely is," originally in response to Mike asking if the Freddy's job was still available. This trailer also edits the sequence of Mike trying to escape Foxy so that he instead looks back and screams at a positive score for the movie — its Rotten Tomatoes audience score in one version (89% at the time), and its Cinemascore in another version (A-).
- Reasonable Authority Figure:
- The teacher at Abby's school is not swayed by Jane's claims that she's the better option as a caregiver for Abby, seeing through her ruse and believing Mike, as she sees that Mike, while not perfect, actually cares about his little sister and is doing everything he can to make sure she's safe and happy.
- Vanessa, who attempts to befriend both Mike and Abby, helps the latter when she's playing with the animatronics, and warns Mike that having her wander around the pizzeria after hours is dangerous. She also manages to break through her own traumas and face down her father to save both Mike and Abby when he arrives at the pizzeria as Springtrap.
- Recurring Dreams: Mike initiates these, using a poster of trees and nature sounds to remind him of a past memory so that he can have a dream of the day his brother was taken so that he can remember something that can help him find the man that took him.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: The animatronics sport glowing red eyes in the posters; in the film, their eyes turn red when their malicious sides take over.
- Red Herring:
- Fans of the games who are aware of Steve Raglan being William Afton and the widely accepted theory that he's Mike Schmidt's father in the games may seize upon the scene where Steve reads Mike's name and then trails off partway through before looking at his face more closely and suggesting Freddy's to him. Except as it turns out, this isn't because Steve/William recognizes him as his son, but rather because he recognizes him as the brother of one of his past victims.
- Golden Freddy's "IT'S ME" message is seen scrawled on a mirror on the second night. Fans may make the connection that its implied meaning from the game series, Mike's brother calling out to him from inside Golden Freddy, is true here as well. Nope. Garrett is never shown to be possessing an animatronic, and Golden Freddy turns out to be another kid with no connection to Mike, leaving the meaning of the message in this continuity a mystery.
- Related in the Adaptation: Vanessa and William are daughter and father in this film, with no mention to the canon familial connection between Mike and William.
- Remake Cameo: Kellen Goff, who previously voiced Funtime Freddy in Sister Location amongst other roles amongst the franchise, sings Foxy's "Dum-de-dum" song from the first game.
- Rewatch Bonus: When Steve Raglan reads Mike's full name, he reacts with recognition and surprise. You might assume that he recognizes it from news stories about the tragedy in Mike's past, but in the end it's revealed that "Raglan" is the one who abducted Mike's brother, so he's reacting from personal knowledge.
- Robbing the Dead: Afton not only kidnapped and murdered Garrett Schmidt, but looted his victim's toy plane and gave it to his daughter.
- Running Gag: An uncanny-looking Balloon Boy figurine that manages to show up at eye-level with people in increasingly improbable conditions for a Cat Scare. It happens several times to Mike, and again to the taxi driver in the mid-credits scene.
- Scenery Gorn: The pizzeria set itself has been praised for not only looking game accurate, but also built to resemble what an actual '80s era Suck E. Cheese's would have looked like and how it would've deteriorated since its closure.
- Scream Discretion Shot: In the opening scene, the previous Freddy's security guard winds up locked into a Shackle Seat Trap with whirring blades closing in on his face. Try as he might, he is unable to escape it in time, and right before the blades touch him, the film cuts away to another part of Freddy's as we hear him screaming in the background.
- Screams Like a Little Girl: The vandals get out some pretty high-pitched screams when they're being chased and attacked by the animatronics.
- Seen It All: The cab driver doesn't think much of a child taking his cab unattended, and is only briefly freaked out by Golden Freddy before just writing it off as the sort of thing that happens after dark.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: After Mike enlists Aunt Jane to babysit Abby due to being unable to reach Max (because her corpse is in the restaurant's storage room), he does his sleep ritual at work and dreams of his family again, happily enjoying their picnic. When Mike says that's not how things happened that day, the ghost children and his family say he's correct. They then tell him that he doesn't actually want to find Garrett's kidnapper in order to bring them to justice and get closure for his disappearance; what he really wants is to save Garrett, as he was unable to do so in real life, and keep his family from being destroyed. The children offer to help him be happily reunited with Garrett and his family, at the cost of handing Abby over to them. In a momentary lapse of judgment, as he's sucked into the illusion of the dream and pets Garrett's face, Mike accepts the offer, but upon immediately realizing that he would lose Abby as well (in addition to the likelihood of the children intending to reunite him with his family in the afterlife), he instantly regrets his decision and tries to call it off.
- Setting Update: The original game (as determined by using the amount of hours paid on the final check against the US national minimum wage) took place in the early 1990s, whereas the movie takes place in the early 2000s.
- Shackle Seat Trap: What the animatronics use to force people into the Freddy Fazbear suits, complete with whirring blades alarmingly close to the facial area that make it look like a trap from the Saw series. Mike ends up forced into one but escapes at the last second; the previous security guard in the opening scene is not so lucky, but indirectly helps Mike escape by loosening his restraint.
- Shadow Discretion Shot: Max being bitten in half by Freddy is depicted via shadow.
- Shock Stick: Vanessa gives Mike a taser stick that she says they use for animal control to help fight back against the animatronics. Mike uses it, among other things, against the cupcake animatronic when it attacks him.
- Shout-Out:
- Springtrap mimics Ghostface's iconic knife wipe when he first appears, despite it being dry at the time. It's an Actor Allusion for Matthew Lillard, who plays him.
- A promotional website named freddysfanzone.com presents itself as a fanpage from the late 1990s to early 2000s dedicated to preserving the memory of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. The website's premise is similar to showbizpizza.com, an unofficial archive of both Chuck E. Cheese and The Rock-afire Explosion.
- The Sociopath:
- Steve Raglan a.k.a. William Afton is a manipulative, psychopathic Serial Killer. He feels neither empathy nor remorse over his many crimes, which include butchering several children and trapping their souls. He perceives his crime spree as a childish game, like his kills are toy collections. Even attacking and stabbing his own daughter only horrifies him for a few seconds before he completely gets over it. He can act superficially charming enough to lure multiple children away to their deaths; he rants and raves and resorts to violence when he can't get his own way.
- Aunt Jane, though not a Serial Killer, ticks off many of the boxes for a textbook sociopath herself. She sees her only known surviving relatives, her niece and nephew, as nothing more than a means to covet extra money for herself and a hindrance to that goal, respectively; she cares nothing for the well-being of either of them; she shamelessly uses manipulative tactics, including Crocodile Tears, to get what she wants; and she has no compunctions against resorting to criminality to get her own way (or discussing it in front of her laywer).
- Starring Special Effects: The eponymous Freddy is an animatronic, played by a full-bodied Muppet performer. He and the other animatronic characters at Freddy's serve as a looming presence that Mike has to deal with.
- Static Stun Gun: Mike uses a taser to shut down a few of the animatronics during the climax.
- The Stinger:
- A mid-credits scene shows the taxi driver from earlier as Balloon Boy gets into the cab, giving the driver, and the audience, one last Jump Scare.
- Another one closes out the credits with a message delivered similarly to those found in the second game, with an Ominous Music Box Tune playing over it—specifically, the music box from the second game used to keep the Puppet at bay.C. O. M. E. F. I. N. D. M. E.
- Talking in Your Dreams: The spirits of the missing children speak to Mike in his dreams.
- Thicker Than Water:
- Mike's Promotion to Parent and his tendency to get frustrated with Abby can make him come across as a Resentful Guardian, while Abby can act out towards Mike. It turns out they both love each other dearly, and Mike is more worried about his ability to be a good guardian than actually resentful. He immediately regrets both bringing Aunt Jane to the house and his very brief agreement to give Abby to the animatronics and spends the rest of the film working to save her.
- Vanessa is the put-upon daughter of William Afton and has become a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant due to knowing exactly what her father has done. However, she manages to face up to and fight him to save Abby, knowing that if she doesn't, Abby will end up as yet another of William's minions.
- Third-Act Misunderstanding: As Max doesn't answer Mike's phone-calls (since her corpse is in the restaurant's storage room), Mike gets desperate and calls Aunt Jane to babysit Abby. When she sees Aunt Jane in the kitchen, Abby assumes that Mike has surrendered legal custody and Jane is there to take her away. Before Mike can explain himself, Abby yells that she hates him, locks herself in her room, and crosses off his face from her drawings. Some time after Mike leaves for work, Golden Freddy and the ghost child controlling him arrive at the house and kill Aunt Jane. Since Abby's still angry at Mike, she happily gets in a taxi with the animatronic, who intends to take her back to the restaurant and turn her into one of Afton's minions.
- Token Good Teammate:
- Of Aunt Jane's crew, her lawyer Doug is probably the most sympathetic along with Max as he's pretty alarmed by Aunt Jane's plans and even tries to leave before being forced back into his seat by Aunt Jane. Between Aunt Jane, the vandals, and himself, he's the only one who lives.
- Max seems reluctant about her role as The Mole, although she isn't so fortunate.
- Too Dumb to Live: Max somehow thinks it's a good idea to follow an inexplicably appearing child to a back room where a large animatronic bear is, in the same place her friends went into but is now dead silent, and then to stand up on a chair and gaze directly into said bear's mouth. It's hard not to partially blame her for her own grisly fate.
- Trailers Always Spoil:
- Steve Raglan being William Afton and thus an updated take on the Dave Miller persona William Afton used in Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes was one of the first things revealed about the film, as far back as Dawko's livestream that announced Matthew Lillard was playing the character.
- If you've seen any of the trailers, you already know that Max, Jeff, and their friends are doomed to die at the animatronics' hands.
- Unrelated in the Adaptation: There's no indication that Mike and Abby have any relation to William in this continuity. However, it is shown near the end of the film that Garrett, Mike's little brother, was kidnapped and murdered by Afton.
- Unrobotic Reveal: The seemingly animatronic Yellow Rabbit is revealed to actually be Steve Raglan, or rather William Afton, in a mechanical suit.
- Victorious Roar: Freddy lets out an animalistic droning roar following Afton getting springlocked, having avenged his own death from years ago.
- Villainous Breakdown: Afton has one near the end as the animatronics surround him, prompting a brief "The Reason You Suck" Speech.Afton: Look at you... Look at the nasty things that you have become! Look at how small you are! How worthless you are! You are wretched, rotten little beasts! I made you!
- Wham Line:
- Vanessa delivers a massive one that confirms a long-running fan theory and changes the course of the whole movie when she explains to Mike who was responsible for the kids that went missing.Vanessa: His name is William Afton. He's my father.
- For anyone who was introduced to the franchise through the movie, the below line certainly qualifies, although it's decidedly not one for pre-existing fans.Vanessa: It's not just their ghosts that are inside of those machines. It's their bodies.
- Vanessa delivers a massive one that confirms a long-running fan theory and changes the course of the whole movie when she explains to Mike who was responsible for the kids that went missing.
- Wham Shot:
- The first and second trailers mainly focuses on elements from the first game up until the very end... where Spring Bonnie is shown with a knife. Spring Bonnie is an animatronic that, whilst important to the lore, has never been depicted in the games themselves, only its later withered iteration.
- Vanessa shows Mike a picture of her younger self with William Afton in the Spring Bonnie suit…and she's holding his brother's toy airplane, confirming that Afton is his kidnapper.
- What Happened to the Mouse?:
- We never do find out what happened to Doug after the scene at the diner where Aunt Jane and her posse plan to vandalize the pizzeria, as he simply never appears in the movie again once said scene is over. That said, it could be easily assumed that he split at the earliest opportunity given his already clear discomfort with Jane and her schemes and thus was spared the same fate that Jane and her crew all got.
- On a similar note, we never find out what happens to Jane's assumed corpse. It's entirely possible Golden Freddy kept his promise that she'd be fine and just knocked her out, so maybe she just left. But given that Mike went back home after the events of things and didn't seem to notice a corpse in his house, this leaves her true fate, along with the question of who or what may have removed her corpse, up to question.
- What happened to the corpses of Max, Jeff, Hank, and Carl aren't explained either. Mike stumbles across them in his escape from Parts & Services, but with nothing beyond that, it is reasonable to assume they are still there and forgotten by the film's end.
- You Wouldn't Shoot Me: At the climax, Afton mocks Vanessa for attempting to get him to think she would dare shoot him. To his shock, she proceeds to do so, though he quickly shrugs it off and stabs her.
