Five Nights At Freddy’s Should Use Its Sister Location

If you haven’t played the Five Nights At Freddy’s games, there may be potential spoilers below for the second film.

Production on Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 is well under way. Many passionate FNAF enthusiasts were disappointed when they learned that the sequel film was going to be PG-13 like its predecessor. If the creators ever want to change tack and adapt a bloodier, R-rated sequel, there is one game that shouldn’t be overlooked.

Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 has wrapped up filming. Matthew Lillard is set to return as the overarching villain, William Afton (a.k.a Purple Guy). Whether this is in his post-mortem form as the iconic Springtrap, or simply a series of flashbacks relating to his infamous pizzeria murders remains to be seen. Photos have been leaked from the set of the sequel revealing an older, more decrepit Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. On its main sign, Freddy, Bonnie, and Toy Chica can be spotted. This evidence has supported the idea that the second film will follow in the footsteps of the sequel game FNAF 2, adding a whole new roster of animatronics to the cast.

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Trishna Rihky of Esquire sat down with Josh Hutcherson to discuss how the sequel will be different from the original film. From Hutcherson’s comments, it appears that Scott Cawthon (creator of the games) and Emma Tammi (director and writer on the film) have keenly listened to criticisms aimed at the adaptation. The Five Nights At Freddy’s film received a rating of 32% on Rotten Tomatoes, with the overall critical consensus summarizing how the movie “may be fun to watch for fans of the game, but most viewers of any other persuasion will find this adaptation muddled and decidedly unscary.” If Hutcherson’s thoughts about the next installment in the franchise are true, those critiques are about to be addressed.

The FNAF Universe Is About To Expand

Hope You Like Creepy Animatronics!

Any long-running fan of the Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 video game will know that compared to the first it is significantly harder and more anxiety-inducing. Unlike the original game, there are no doors to hide behind. While power is unlimited, the player has to juggle a larger cast of animatronics, some returning with new game mechanics. Your only saving grace is a flashlight to stun your enemies and a Freddy mask to trick your enemies into believing you are one of them, all while winding a music box to fend off the ominous Puppet. Hutcherson mentions in the interview that “It’s much bigger; the stakes are higher.” So, it follows that the movie will be very similar in tone and atmosphere to its counterpart game. Hutcherson adds:

“There’s more animatronics being brought in, different animatronics being brought in, and the world just opens up in a big way.”

The first FNAF game had a soft touch with its lore and left fans crying out for more. FNAF 2 expanded on it greatly by including various mini-game cutscenes that elaborated on how the animatronics came to be possessed, including the first recorded onscreen evidence of the Purple Guy (a.k.a William Afton) taking the life of a child. Although the first film went to great lengths –perhaps devoting too much screen time- to exploring the backstory of the dead children who possessed the original FNAF animatronics, details of their gruesome fates were mainly confined to the movie’s pixelated intro. If the second film wants to be perceived as “scarier” in Hutcherson’s words, then it needs to expand on the adaptation’s version of those events. This could easily be done through flashbacks of William Afton luring his victims to their deaths, a key part of what made the games so intensely unnerving.

Set An R-Rated Sequel At The Sister Location

Let’s Get Gory, Y’All

Sister Location‘s gameplay definitely marks it as the black sheep out of the original first six titles. Instead of the player being fixed in one position and the animatronics attacking each night, the main character must venture on their own into an underground facility and crawl through pitch-black storage units to fix four malfunctioning clown versions of the main Freddy crew: the Fun-Time animatronics. It’s an interesting switch-up that’s effectively bone-chilling.

It’s arguably more suited to a screen adaptation than FNAF 2. It’s a daunting lock-in each night, as the facility lies miles underground, which serves as a more logical narrative reason for a character to be trapped than restaurant exit doors spookily locking as an easy plot convenience. There’s also more of a story to Sister Location, as each night the repairman interacts with Circus Baby. This animatronic features the first real voice-acted character in the series. She guides the player through fixing the facilities’ many residents, only to be a fun twist villain at the end that teams up with all the other haunted mascots.

Circus Baby is also possessed by the ghost of William Afton’s daughter, and whilst Venessa Shelby (Elizabeth Lail) is revealed to be Afton’s daughter in the film, there is still a lot of potential to explore other relatives in the Afton lineage. The in-game character Michael Afton, his son, is the main character in Sister Location. He goes into the facility to find the spirit of his dead sister and release her. So, an adaptation of this game would give the main character excellent motivation to be there and create an even more complex family drama.

As for body-horror, this game also boasts the most disgusting moment in the original run of games. Circus Baby is possessed by Afton’s daughter because of his own nefarious designs. He installed every Fun-Time animatronic with a device to capture and store children for experimentation. Unfortunately, Elizabeth suffers the consequences of his actions when she is left alone with Circus Baby on the opening day of a new pizzeria: Circus Baby’s Pizza World. Michael, the son, suffers a similar fate when Baby’s plot comes to fruition and the Fun-Time animatronics send him to the ‘scooping room’. A place where Michael’s organs are disemboweled, and the Fun-Time crew combine to create a horrific Frankenstein creature called Ennard, which climbs inside Michael’s skin to use him as a suit. It’s extremely graphic and if the film franchise ever wants to kick it up a notch, Sister Location is a gold mine for a much darker interpretation.

Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 is set to release in cinemas on the 5th December later this year.

Five Nights at Freddy’s

Created by

Scott Cawthon

Creation Year

2014

Developer(s)

Scott Games, Mega Cat Studios, Steel Wool Studios, Illumix

Publisher(s)

Scott Games, Clickteam LLC USA, Illumix