As an adaptation, the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie is an odd duck. Very little about the story being told is taken directly, as is, from one of the games or novels or comics that make up this increasingly sprawling franchise. Instead, series creator/film co-writer Scott Cawthon and director/co-writer Emma Tammi remixed elements from all over the franchise into basically a new and very different version of the first game’s story.
Most everything in the film will be familiar to the fans, but much of it ends up being used in new ways, so even the die-hard Freddyheads (or whatever fans of this franchise are called) have the chance to be surprised by what happens in the movie. As long as they don’t read the rest of this article before they watch it, anyway.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for the entire Five Nights at Freddy’s movie, including a full breakdown of the ending.