Hello internet! Welcome to Film Theory!

Finally, it's happened. After eight agonizingly long years in development hell

Hoping from studio to studio director to director, the Five Nights at Freddy's movie is finally out for you to go see right now. And man, has this been a commercial hit.

As of the writing of this script, just one weekend into release, the movie's made over $ hundred and fifty two million dollars at the box office more than seven times its own budget and

that's despite being available to stream on peacock where oh wait it's also the most

viewed movie on peacock ever suck on that my big fat Greek wedding three it's also

Blumhouse's most successful opening weekend to date which means that more people are turning out to see spring trap wielding his knife than Michael Myers.

Maybe now Hollywood will finally bother to get the name of this thing right.

And his other movie, Friday Nights at Freddy's comes to theaters and streaming on Peacock October 27th.

Five nights at Freddy's.

What did I say?

Friday nights.

It's been eight or nine years since I first met Scott Carthorne who created this.

Why do we get it wrong?

Or not.

Who cares? Forget them.

This thing was made for the fans.

From Sparky the Dog to Dream Theory to...

It's just a theory.

You bet it is, and today we're getting back to those theorist roots. Today we're theorizing about the actual movie, and boy, is there

a lot to talk about here. True story, after the movie, I basically locked myself in the room

with Lee and Tom, the film and game theory creative directors, and we busted out our trusty

...