Freddy Fazbear (Film)

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I can't believe it's been a year since the movie was released. I remember everyone was getting excited about this when it was announced.

And I also like the story of Mike Schimdt, a man who is traumatized by his failure of saving his brother Garrett and was struggling to protect his sister, Abby. And this determination of finding who took his brother away nearly destroyed the relationship with her. I'm so glad he moved on from his past and focused on the future.

I gotta say, the William Afton in this movie is awesome! Unlike the one in the games, he seems to be more dangerous and serial. And I like it!

Nonetheless, this was the best movie that I have ever seen! And I'm happy we're celebrating the 1st anniversary of it! Thank you, Scott Cawthon and crew, for this!

Okay, so considering that we are guaranteed at least two more movies based on the FNAF 2 and 3, I wanted to revisit some of my ideas of what we're going to see and what we might see/see set up for based on new information. So let me dive into this dust and sweat covered ball pit once again, and travel back to 1985 to revisit what I think could happen in FNAF 2:

1. Garrett as the Puppet.

Previous take:

Yeah this one is a fairly big and obvious assumption for everyone. Mike saying he feels closer to Garrett at Freddy’s, the confirmation that Afton killed him, the "Come find me" message at the end of the movie with the Puppet's music playing, Garrett is going to be a bigger part of the sequel. If he wasn't then why would we be set up that perfectly for it? Unless it's a red hering or Garrett is the Balloon Boy figure, which is possible but doubtful considering that would Burton a lot of good will Bloomhouse has built.

Current Take: I still think it makes the most sense for Garrett to be The Puppet in the next movie. However I can also see him being Toy Freddy, but I'm still leaning towards The Puppet.

2. More murder victims under Afton's control, enter the Toy animatronics.

Old take:

There was never just one, there's probably another restaurant out there, possibly in Nebraska with 5 more dead kids. Besides, if Freddy’s was as big as say Chucky Cheese or Showbiz Pizza, combined with the Balloon Boy figure apparently being haunted, taking Cory's taxi presumably to this other location, we're probably going to see those characters on the big screen, at very least in flashbacks if not in the present. Interacting with Abby and the Classic Animatronics.

Current Take:

While I still believe that the Toys are haunted, they could also end up being soulless machines under Afton’s control. Which would greatly disappoint me, but considering that no one knows if they're haunted or not, it's up in the air. However we do know that Jim Henson's workshop is already working on both the Toy and Withered animatronics. So at the very least we'll see them in flashbacks. Although I'm still hoping we get the Classics in the present as we last saw them in the first movie.

3. Springtrap

Old Take: Do I need to say more? "I always come back."

Current Take: Mathew Lillard is still contracted for two more movies. My old take is probably still on the money.

4. Expanding Vanessa's character.

Old Take:

Hopefully they won't kill Vanessa off screen and force her to become Circus Baby for the final film or something as stupid as The 4th Closet having her be a robot. But this isn't about what I want to see, it's about what we're probably going to see. Vanessa will probably return and help us get more information about what happened to Garrett and how her father knows so much about how possession works. Possibly due to something else that happened at a certain other location.

Current Take:

I still stand by my previous take, however knowing Scott as well as Bloomhouse Productions experience with "Megan" I can see them trying to make robot kids a thing again. I hate this idea almost as much as I hate The Mimic, but I do admit that robot kids might be a possibility. With MatPat coming out of retirement again to go "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE GOT EM!" But I still think it's extremely likely that Vanessa will return in the next 2 movies.

5. Mike's Father further explained.

Old Take:

We don't know a lot about Mike's parents, except the fact that {understandably} they were devastated by Garrett's abduction. The current working theory is Mike's father in this continuity is Henry, or at least a parallel to him. Would it be surprising if Mike's father was named Henry Schmidt, or changed his name to Schmidt from Emily to get away from Afton? If Garrett is the parallel to Charlotte then the obvious connection is their father is connected to Henry.

Current Take:

While unfounded, there has to be some reason Afton went our of his way to abduct Garrett. The way he abducted Garrett goes outside his known pattern of killing people, especially children. Afton likes to use his Spring Bonnie suit to lure the kids away before killing them. He also seems to enjoy wearing it to kill adults directly. We see it with Mike, even though the argument can be made that this was a "special occasion". In Afton’s own words:

"This is perfect! First I killed your brother, now I'll kill you. Symmetry my friend!"

Now on to some more, lose and speculative ideas I have. There's currently no evidence for these so take them with a healthy amount of salt:

1: Vanessa has a sister.

Old Take:

Circus Baby is one of the more popular characters in the franchise, and since the movies seem to be blending different eras and sources together into a new universe, I think it's likely that Vanessa has a sister, a sister named Elizabeth. A sister in yet another location where something terrible happened to her. Perhaps a prank gone wrong, leading to her sister's soul possessing a 7 foot tall clown girl. A sister who's death William has been using to influence Vanessa via guilt and the promise of "putting her back together".

Current Take:

While admittedly unlikely, it is nonetheless possible. Also if the next two movies are as successful as the first one, I can see them doing a second trilogy based around 4, 5 and 6. But admittedly we're jumping the gun thinking about a FNAF 4 or Sister Location movie.

2. Funtime Animatronics.

Old Take:

If we’re bringing in Circus Baby then the next logical step would be the rest of the Funtime Circus gang. Now, I know they said that they were going to focus on the first 3 games, but we also have Vanessa from Security Breach. Of course I could be wrong and this will all age like milk left out in the middle of Death Valley in the middle of July during a heatwave.

Current Take:

I think that my previous "Current Take" covered everything that I have to say about this. Although as an aside I would love to see Funtime Freddy and Bon Bon on the big screen with his voice actor reprising the roll of the psychotic, possibly gay animatronic. I can almost see Mike barely dodging Bon Bon after he was launched by Funtime Freddy. "HEY BAWN BAWN, GO GET EM!"

3. The fate of Aunt Jane.

Old Take:

Yeah I could imagine it would be bad for Mike's credibility if his aunt was dead in the middle of the floor. Her seeming death at the hands of Golden Freddy/Fredbear isn't going to fly with the police. Who's going to believe that a 6"7' teleporting yellow animatronic bear unalived her that didn't know there were haunted animatronics in the world?

Current Take:

Frankly I expect them to completely gloss over Aunt Jane. If they do even mention her, I expect Aunt Jane to be either very dead, or locked up in the loony bin where she belongs. Frankly she probably belongs in prison more, considering the way she tried to get Mike fired, and would likely have him killed if she thought she could get away with it. It's only because Afton wanted Mike dead, either by the animatronics, Vanessa, or by his own hand.

Speaking of:

4. The animatronics come to Mike's house.

Old Take:

Yeah I can see the next movie having the doorbell ring late at night and Mike opens the door to see Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy all outside like he got the Fazbear delivery service. If Abby can't come see her friends, then why not have them come see her? Stress ensues for poor Mike. Considering they tried to kill him and Abby last they saw him, Mike isn't going to be keen on sharing a much smaller space with 4 or possibly 5 giant robots what have been known to endgame adults. Hell the freaking cupcake has a kill! This could lead to moments both frightening and hilarious.

Current Take:

I can still see this as a plot point, and it's still hilarious to me. Imagine an Amazon delivery guy comes with a package only to be greeted by Freddy Fazbear at the door. Or a pizza guy being met and chased by Chica who just wants his pizza?

5. The final death of William Afton. {For now}

Old Take:

It wouldn't be Five Nights at Freddy’s if William Afton wasn't burned to death somehow. I can almost guarantee that we're going to have flame broiled Afton on the menu in the third film. However considering Afton always comes back, it also wouldn't surprise me if his soul was somehow transferred in a sequel to another animatronic, possibly even The Mimic. However at least in 3, Afton is going to burn.

Current Take:

I still think that my old take here has merit. Afton will probably burn by the end of the third movie, bringing an end to his reign of terror. At least until they decide to make a 4th movie and bring him back.

And these are the things I think we'll see in FNAF 2 and 3 updated. Agree? Disagree? Don't care? Tell me your thoughts in the comments below. And most importantly, remember to smile because you're the face of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza!

Okay, so considering that we are guaranteed at least two more movies based on the FNAF 2 and 3, I have a few ideas of what we're going to see and what we might see/see set up for. So let me dive into this dust and sweat covered ballpit and travel back to 1985 to see what I think could happen in FNAF 2:

1. Garrett as the Puppet.

Yeah this one is a fairly big and obvious assumption for everyone. Mike saying he feels closer to Garrett at Freddy’s, the confirmation that Afton killed him, the "Come find me" message at the end of the movie with the Puppet's music playing, Garrett is going to be a bigger part of the sequel. If he wasn't then why would we be set up that perfectly for it? Unless it's a red hering or Garrett is the Balloon Boy figure, which is possible but doubtful considering that would Burton a lot of good will Bloomhouse has built.

2. More murder victims under Afton's control, enter the Toy animatronics.

There was never just one, there's probably another restaurant out there, possibly in Nebraska with 5 more dead kids. Besides, if Freddy’s was as big as say Chucky Cheese or Showbiz Pizza, combined with the Balloon Boy figure apparently being haunted, taking Cory's taxi presumably to this other location, we're probably going to see those characters on the big screen, at very least in flashbacks if not in the present. Interacting with Abby and the Classic Animatronics.

3. Springtrap

Do I need to say more? "I always come back."

4. Expanding Vanessa's character.

Hopefully they won't kill Vanessa off screen and force her to become Circus Baby for the final film or something as stupid as The 4th Closet having her be a robot. But this isn't about what I want to see, it's about what we're probably going to see. Vanessa will probably return and help us get more information about what happened to Garrett and how her father knows so much about how possession works. Possibly due to something else that happened at a certain other location.

5. Mike's Father further explained.

We don't know a lot about Mike's parents, except the fact that {understandably} they were devastated by Garrett's abduction. The current working theory is Mike's father in this continuity is Henry, or at least a parallel to him. Would it be surprising if Mike's father was named Henry Schmidt, or changed his name to Schmidt from Emily to get away from Afton? If Garrett is the parallel to Charlotte then the obvious connection is their father is connected to Henry.

Now on to some more, lose and speculative ideas I have. There's currently no evidence for these so take them with a healthy amount of salt:

1: Vanessa has a sister.

Circus Baby is one of the more popular characters in the franchise, and since the movies seem to be blending different eras and sources together into a new universe, I think it's likely that Vanessa has a sister, a sister named Elizabeth. A sister in yet another location where something terrible happened to her. Perhaps a prank gone wrong, leading to her sister's soul possessing a 7 foot tall clown girl. A sister who's death William has been using to influence Vanessa via guilt and the promise of "putting her back together".

2. Funtime Animatronics.

If we’re bringing in Circus Baby then the next logical step would be the rest of the Funtime Circus gang. Now, I know they said that they were going to focus on the first 3 games, but we also have Vanessa from Security Breach. Of course I could be wrong and this will all age like milk left out in the middle of Death Valley in the middle of July during a heatwave.

3. The fate of Aunt Jane.

Yeah I could imagine it would be bad for Mike's credibility if his aunt was dead in the middle of the floor. Her seeming death at the hands of Golden Freddy/Fredbear isn't going to fly with the police. Who's going to believe that a 6"7' teleporting yellow animatronic bear unalived her that didn't know there were haunted animatronics in the world? Speaking of:

4. The animatronics come to Mike's house.

Yeah I can see the next movie having the doorbell ring late at night and Mike opens the door to see Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy all outside like he got the Fazbear delivery service. If Abby can't come see her friends, then why not have them come see her? Stress ensues for poor Mike. Considering they tried to kill him and Abby last they saw him, Mike isn't going to be keen on sharing a much smaller space with 4 or possibly 5 giant robots what have been known to endgame adults. Hell the freaking cupcake has a kill! This could lead to moments both frightening and hilarious.

5. The final death of William Afton. {For now}

It wouldn't be Five Nights at Freddy’s if William Afton wasn't burned to death somehow. I can almost guarantee that we're going to have flame broiled Afton on the menu in the third film. However considering Afton always comes back, it also wouldn't surprise me if his soul was somehow transferred in a sequel to another animatronic, possibly even The Mimic. However at least in 3, Afton is going to burn.

And these are the things I think we'll see in FNAF 2 and 3. Agree? Disagree? Don't care? Tell me your thoughts in the comments below. And most importantly, remember to smile because you're the face of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza!

He is also known as Freddy model WKSN or Host Freddy. He is meant to be someone who introduced the show such as Kermit the Frog.

I honestly loved it! Now let's get to business. I'm going to be discussing what I liked and disliked about the movie and some possible changes that they could've made as well as a couple theories that I have. Let's go!

First off, I thought that the overall plot was pretty good, albeit a bit messy. Several aspects tied up with the novel trilogy, such as the fact that William Afton influenced the spirits. There are more, but we won't dig into them right now. They gave Mike more of a backstory, which helps make the character seem more realistic. I think that the movie focusing mostly on Mike was an interesting choice, but it was still nice. The animatronics being nice added a bit of a twist considering the fact that people expected them to be hostile most of the time. Some people didn't like that, but I think that it put more thought into the characters, that it shows that they're really just children. Vanessa being Afton's daughter wasn't that much of a plot twist if that's what they were intending, but like I said, it really gives her character more life and shows us why she is the way she is.

I have to admit that the springlock scene was...anticlimactic. I feel like they could've played that out better, but hey, it was still pretty good. And Afton saying, "I always come back." was beautiful and such a nice callback. I loved all of the references and Easter eggs that they put in the movie; the Sparky reference was really nice, since he was the first fake rumor. I feel like the Matpat cameo thing was almost forced, to be honest. Now, on to the theories.

Vanessa seems to know more than we give her credit for, and I have a couple of ideas about that. Close the the beginning, Vanessa told Mike that she knew what crazy looked like and what he was doing wasn't it. I'm going to assume that she was talking about her father and the incident, and she seems to be hinting that she saw something. I believe that Vanessa actuall watched the MCI happen-or almost did. She went to Freddy's a lot when she was a kid, which makes sense considering the fact that her father was the creator of Freddy's. In one scene, we see her standing in front of the pictures-she seems to be having a flashback. We can hear children laughing and singing, "We love the yellow rabbit!" Which means that she was there, close to them-perhaps they were even friends. I'll cover that one in a minute. Anyways, the kids are laughing and having fun-and then they start screaming. Assuming that we're hearing from the ears of Vanessa, it seems like she was there to see-or hear-the murders as well. Now, I don't know if she happened to be outside the door or actually witnessing it, but it had to have been one of the two.

Vanessa might have also been friends with the MCI victims. The children do talk about Vanessa-and she may talk to them as well. In one of the earlier scenes, Vanessa interrupts Mike, saying that he felt like he could change what happened. The way that she says it-it seems almost longing and desperate, like she'd gone through the exact same thing. Again, during Vanessa's flashback, we hear the children singing about the yellow rabbit, and it doesn't sound like something that she'd heard from afar. It sounded really close, like she could've been there with them. After all, she didn't know about her dad being crazy and it is likely that she would be singing too. And it would make sense as to why she'd follow them and witness the murders. However, it is pretty likely that I'm putting to much thought into a small detail, so...

Anyways....

The animatronics looked amazing. I couldn't even tell that people were in them most of the time. So much effort and care was put into them, and I love that. I give the movie a solid 10/10.