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‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Recieves New Movie Script and HD Console Ports

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When thinking of horror games, most will immediately consider huge titles such as Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, Clocktower, and The Evil Within, but the genre owes much of its recent commercial success to the indie market, especially Scott Cawthon’s minimalist point-and-click series Five Nights At Freddy’s. Focusing on the already jarring and terrifying aesthetics of anthropomorphic animatronics (such as Chuck E. Cheese), Five Nights at Freddy’s galvanized both indie horror and indie games by showing that sometimes less is more when it comes to game mechanics.

Spawning six games, three novels, and a myriad of toys, Warner Brothers jumped on the opportunity to produce a movie from the series in 2015, around the time of the third game’s release. Two years later, Cawthon and his script shifted over to horror movie titan Blumhouse Productions, with Chris Columbus (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Rent) helmed as writer, producer, and Director. Unfortunately, Cawthon has confirmed through an enormous Steam blog post that he is not content with the script.

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While Jason Blum and Columbus both liked the script, Cawthon took issue as the series’ creator and tossed it after formulating a better screenplay premise. Aware that the process has been stressing staff and fans out, Cawthon took full responsibility for the delay but has assured that he’s writing the script with the narrative’s quality as a top priority. As of now, the movie (and its potential sequels) will revolve around the first three games. In the same Steam post, Cawthon issued progress reports on the other Five Nights at Freddy’s projects as well.

With help from Steel Wool Studios (Warhammer 40k Horus of Heresy: Betrayal at CalthBounce, and Mars Odyssey), Cathow has nearly reached the halfway point of development completion for Five Night’s at Freddy’s VR. The VR version will promise an intense and stressful experience for players as they repair Funtime Freddy through VR perspective while trying to evade the other animatronics. Cawthon has he’s also reached the early stages of development for an Augmented Reality version of Five Night’s At Freddy’s, which I can only imagine will be similar to Night Terrors.

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The updates for Cathow and his robotic hellions do not stop there, however.

Five Nights at Freddy’s will receive HD console ports for every installment in the series. Thanks to the help of software and app developer Clickteam, players will be able to experience the hellscape of Fazbear’s Pizzeria in HD on their consoles (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, Android, and iOS); additionally, the FNAF series may finally receive a AAA installment. While nothing is concrete as of yet, Cawthon has alluded to working closely with a AAA studio to produce a new game that would receive a large budget and development process.

Ending the slew of exciting updates for the series, Five Nights at Freddy’s will also receive five new books, all containing three various short stories, some pertaining to the game series’ overarching plot, and others being their own standalone tales.

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Five Night’s at Freddy’s has undoubtedly earned its success and positive reputation thanks to its simplistic mechanics, terrifying monsters, and its ominous storytelling; furthermore, an adaptation from game to film overseen by a pillar of the horror movie industry such as Blumhouse is exactly what is warranted for an indie-horror trailblazer. FNAF joins the likes of Castlevania with receiving an adaptation by a team that knows what they’re doing and cherishes the narratives within their adaptations. Certainly, most games don’t NEED film adaptations, but it would be excellent to see some game series receive the same treatment that Castlevania did. In fact, we’ve listed six games that would be ideal for Netflix to adapt into a series, which personally I’d be partial to a Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, Titanfall, or Bloodborne adaptation.

 

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‘Immaculate’ Stars Reveal Which Horror Villains They Would “F, Marry, Kill”

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Sydney Sweeney is just coming off the success of her rom-com Anyone But You, but she’s ditching the love story for a horror story in her latest film Immaculate.

Sweeney is taking Hollywood by storm, portraying everything from a love-lusting teenager in Euphoria to an accidental superhero in Madame Web. Although the latter got a lot of hate among theater-goers, Immaculate is getting the polar opposite.

The film was screened at SXSW this past week and was well-received. It also gained a reputation for being extremely gory. Derek Smith of Slant says the, “final act contains some of the most twisted, gory violence this particular subgenre of horror has seen in years…”

Thankfully curious horror movie fans won’t have to wait long to see for themselves what Smith is talking about as Immaculate will hit theaters across the United States on March, 22.

Bloody Disgusting says that the movie’s distributor NEON, in a bit of marketing smarts, had stars Sydney Sweeney and Simona Tabasco play a game of “F, Marry, Kill” in which all their choices had to be horror movie villains.

It’s an interesting question, and you might be surprised at their answers. So colorful are their responses that YouTube slapped an age-restricted rating on the video.

Immaculate is a religious horror movie that NEON says stars Sweeney, “as Cecilia, an American nun of devout faith, embarking on a new journey in a remote convent in the picturesque Italian countryside. Cecilia’s warm welcome quickly devolves into a nightmare as it becomes clear her new home harbors a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors.”

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‘Terminator: Survivors’: Open World Survival Game Releases Trailer And Is Launching This Fall

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This is a game that many gamers will be excited for. It was announced at the Nacon Connect 2024 Event that Terminator: Survivors will be launching early access for PC via Steam on October 24th of this year. It will launch fully on a later date for PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. Check out the trailer and more about the game below.

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IGN states, “In this original story taking place after the first two Terminator films, you take control of a group of survivors of Judgment Day, in solo or co-op mode, faced with a multitude of lethal hazards in this post-apocalyptic world. But you’re not alone. Skynet’s machines will hound you relentlessly and rival human factions will fight for the same resources you desperately need.”

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In related news to the Terminator world, Linda Hamilton stated I’m done. I’m done. I have nothing more to say. The story’s been told, and it’s been done to death. Why anybody would relaunch it is a mystery to me. She claims she doesn’t want to play Sarah Connor anymore. You can check out more of what she said here.

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An open-world game about surviving against Skynet’s machines sounds like an interesting and fun game. Are you excited about this announcement and trailer release from Nacon? Let us know in the comments below. Also, check out this behind-the-scenes clip from the game below.

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New ‘Paranormal Activity’ Entry Isn’t a Movie, but “It’s Going to Be Intense” [Teaser Video]

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If you were expecting another Paranormal Activity sequel to be a feature film you’d be surprised. Maybe there will be one, but for now, Variety reports that DreadXP co-director and creative director Brian Clarke (DarkStone Digital) are creating a video game based on the series.

“We are thrilled to work with Paramount Game Studios and to have the opportunity to bring the world of ‘Paranormal Activity’ to gamers everywhere,” Epic Pictures CEO and DreadXP producer Patrick Ewald told Variety. “The films are steeped in rich lore and creative scares, and under the stewardship of creative director Brian Clarke, DreadXP’s ‘Paranormal Activity’ video game will honor those core tenets and offer horror fans one of our most terrifying games yet.” 

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Clarke, who worked on the horror video game The Mortuary Assistant said the Paranormal Activity franchise shows just how much reach a genre-specific title can accomplish, “If you thought ‘The Mortuary Assistant’ was scary, we’re taking what we learned during the development of that title and cranking it up with a more reactive and horrifying haunting system. It’s going to be intense!”

The new game is scheduled to be released in 2026.

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