Movie Review: Video game-to-horror flick 'Five Nights at Freddy’s' misfires badly

Just in time for Halloween comes “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” a video game adaptation with the potential treat of demented Chuck E. Cheese-like animatronic creatures running amok. But the trick turns out to be on us, says Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy. The movie built from developer Scott Cawthon’s video game about anthropomorphic robots killing people poorly fits into this vehicle and the problems start with the creatures themselves. They’re more threadbare than eerie, Kennedy says, and the plot is so tortured it should have a cameo in “Saw.” The PG-13-rated film opens in theaters and starts streaming on Peacock on Friday.