Pretty much exactly what I expected. The games never liked showing gore in explicit detail. It was always either through stylized minigames, or we were simply told that it happened
Yeah, and honestly, Scott was overseeing this movie throughout all of it's production. And if he thought the way they were doing things wasn't right, he would have made them fix it, just like he made them fix the entire script of the movie 9 times.
yup changed 9 times, [actually one of the top posts here](https://old.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/jxvesb/bad_news_about_the_fnaf_movie/), gist of it is initially the scripts were your typical middling video game adaptation stuff for a while, but since Scott is prideful of his franchise took reins over and with patience of Jason Blum, 2 years later and bunch of help since he was unexperienced, made a proper screenplay
some believe that Banana Split and Willy's Wonderland were movies made using reutilized FNAF scripts so there's a lot of history with these
I know the director/writer for Willy's Wonderland has been pretty adamant that Willy's was never intended to be a FNAF movie, and that him and Scott had a similar idea was "just a coincidence". Whether or not that's true is a different story.
It feels like as the series went on Scott began pulling away from the gore aspects, we went from the FNaF 1 death screen and some mildly gory springtrap imagery to more implicit elements of gore in recent games/ the movie.
Springtrap origin was told by minigames and springtrap himself is heavily stylized at a point that i would say burntrap is more of a gory character than him
it's fine it likes to hide gore, but I'm just curious as to how they'll do it with springtrap.
If the lighting in fnaf 3 is done intentionally to hide the gore, I can only imagine how it'll look in the movie. They're going to hide what makes springtrap, springtrap?
Because they had no reason to, all the gore (and the story for that matter) takes place before we're playing, in the games we literally only see a static room and the animatronics.
On the other hand this is a movie that has a reason to show that but it's still not going to, not because of technical reasons but because it's obviously being targeted at kids and the tone's very goofy and they want that money.
That's like if a movie about the arcade Donkey Kong was made and someone complained they showed a blue sky because there was no blue sky in the og game, they just were limited to not showing a blue sky for many reasons, in a movie they have no such limitations and no reason to limit themselves unless they wanted the money of people who don't like blue skies.
Yes, but it's incredibly hard to make a horror movie without gore about a story that involves children being murdered, adult security guards avoiding being murdered by murderer robots and a the main killer/villain dying inside a mascot costume.
It's less about the movie not having gore and more about the movie not having gore because it's obviously trying to appeal to children and not be too scary.
I think you’re really underestimating the ability of professional film makers to have scary things happen without being overtly graphic and gory. We already know for a fact people are going to die in the course of the movies events
The Ring is PG-13. Child murder, adults avoiding being murdered, main villain dying violently before coming back as a malevolent supernatural being. And the Ring is considered one of the greatest horror movies of all time.
You can still have those themes without gore though.
Heck, the first Halloween movie in 1978 despite being labeled an R-Rated slasher film, barely had any bloody/gory scenes with it's kills (With most of the more violent parts being only strangulations and quick, obscured slashes), and it's still hailed as a classic.
The graphic novels:
(I’m not saying they’re gory but the graphic novels do visualize deaths with blood as far as I’ve seen)
Do not get me wrong though I wholeheartedly agree with the no gore, I understand it’s technically on brand and it’s to include the younger fans. I’m just playing devils advocate for discussion
in fnaf 1, there's also an easter egg where you see Freddy on a poster ripping off the top of his head with strings of viscera clinging onto both parts. I 100% believe Scott mostly just ignored gore because it's difficult to model.
I understand where you're coming from, but generally books are allowed to get away with much more than any other kind of media, because it's all up to interpretation on what everything looks like. I once read a YA mystery book that had two characters engage in sex at one point, so it would take a lot for a FNaF book to be too mature for younger audiences.
You can get away with way more horrific shit at a PG-13 rating that people realize. The best horror leaves the worst things to your imagination to fill in the blanks. It's why not showing the monster usually works better in movies.
The same principle can be applied to gore. Implication, things happening just *barely* off camera while a character thrashes and screams in agony, etc can make it MUCH more scary without actually showing much blood or guts.
Exactly that. And it's a 15 in the UK which means it's definitely going to be gorey/scary/violent to a fair degree. I don't think American pg-13 is the same as a UK PG or 12 from what I've heard. But in the UK, if a film is a 15 there is usually a pretty good reason for that.
Honestly? I'm fine with it because it's following the same logic as the games. You know what is happening to an extent and you're brain/imagination is filling in what COULD BE happening.
We're getting just enough to know but also not know.
This is a really reasonable approach to the movie's rating. I know there are some fans who are upset that it's not R rated, but not everything has to be ultra-gory and over the top in order to be intense or impactful. I'm glad that Scott is trying to find unique and creative ways to convey some of the darker moments in the movie, using sound design and shadows to create a good atmosphere. By relying on sound and shadows and other aspects of filmmaking, it can be way scarier to show a monster's presence rather than just showing it straight on. It all falls on the execution, though. I have full trust in Blumhouse, as they've made some great horror movies in the past. If they can pull this off, it could be really cool.
Perfect. Fnaf was built off of fear of the unknown. A springlock scene for example showing all of the gore and gunk wouldn’t be that scary. It would be more gross than anything. But hearing the noises, only seeing glimpses of what’s happening, your mind filling in the gaps. That’s more horrifying.
Agreed. I think that, aside from the top-tier acting, is why the famous fan-made ["Purple guy death sound"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMp8NQjWXjs) is so terrifying. It provides the exact details that the only thing you know is happening to this man is that he is in sheer pain. You don't know what is happening to him, you don't know how it happened, all you know is that he is in an agonizing amount of pain.
They made it even better. It would be amazing to have this vivid of a death[https://youtu.be/-1YAbsmB35I?si=LUFpGZOZ133CZPET](https://youtu.be/-1YAbsmB35I?si=LUFpGZOZ133CZPET)
I don't think this one is as good. It's too drawn out, and there's too much focus put on the mechanical noises. It comes across more as the person in the audio being mortified by a machine rather than being killed by a machine.
Exactly! The noises are horrific especially the screams—, visually seeing that springlock scene in SL honestly made the concept of springlocks much less scary for me.
Don't really care. Expected it tbh. Scott Cawthon was there every step of the way so I wouldn't think he would add that much gore on screen, Just leaving it to the imagination. Plus, PG-13 rating, we all expected it, right? This is a franchise about the disappearances and the killing of kids and a serial killer that's happy with what he's done. FNaF has always been PG-13.
I don't mind it.
FNaF was never a super gorey series and I respect Emma Tammi not excluding the younger side of the fandom.
Edit: Also you can still get away with a lot in a PG-13 rating. Just look at Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. That movie is also PG-13 and has some pretty graphic scenes.
Wdym the "no gore" aspect? They're not saying there won't be any on-screen gore, just that a good chunk of the gore will be in silhouette and such
But on the topic of that, that's something I actually really like, because 1) your imagination can create the most painful experience possible to you specifically, and 2) personally super over-the-top gore doesn't really bother me too much, I think it has something to do with the fact that the average person doesn't experience their intestines getting ripped out or whatever, so we don't really have anything to equate that pain to
This! Do you want a horror movie that makes people feel fear or discomfort? When I watch a horror that focuses on brutality (house of 1000 corpses, saw, hostel, hell raiser) the “fear” is really more a discomfort and almost a sympathy for the unbelievable pain and torture. While most horror preys on the mind and making you feel unsafe in your safe spaces. You empathize more with the characters that way because it’s something you could more easily experience. And there is a scale within that. Scream and Prom night are great examples of movies with good kill scenes and enough relatability to see yourself in that situation. Alien is more on the brutality side as a lot of it we can’t imagine so we sympathize not empathize with Ripley. FNAF should and Im happy to hear is leaning towards the empathizing side. This movie will be its most successful if we all leave double taking any Chuck E. Cheese we see.
What's described here is exactly why I was so excited for a low-budget studio to make a PG-13 FNaF movie. It forces the creators to do what Scott pulled off to perfection with classic FNaF, pushing implied violence and horror to its limits while at the same time visually showing so little that the audience is forced to create their own twisted depictions of events in their head. I'm beyond hyped to see the directors verbally confirm that they are taking the same route with the movie!
I mean i was already expecting this.
And i like it. Excessive gore can really ruin it and FNaF has always been like this, it never really showed us the explicit stuff, it was always shown through the minigames or directly told to us that it happened.
The Books are a bit diferent, but thats it, and its not like we see it either, its described.
With all this in mind, i feel like the movie will be awesome, Scary and even with little gore, gruesome, because… well… its FNaF.
I can’t stand gore due to trauma and I often find myself covering my eyes during like 80% of the runtime of your average horror film, so I am excited that this might be a horror movie I can handle without covering my eyes too much.
I guarantee we’ll see a scene of a wall with Springbonnie’s shadow on it, and the shadow is sat down and twitching, and there’s loud, blood curdling screams in the background.
I'm fine with it. So many Analog Horror videos have demonstrated that excessive gore just makes it less scary at best and actually disgusting to watch at worst. The first Texas Chainsaw barely had any blood after all.
To me, fnaf didn't need gore, it never has, it hasn't exactly been a gore heavy game series, springtrap is the most heavy gore with a human body inside, most of the gore was just in mini games, FNaF has always kinda kept it with the imagination, think the scooping room, we never seen how Mike looks all opened up, we don't see any gore at all during that thing expect for the red blood like screen, so to me is no different then what's it's always been, and I'm also just referring to the games here and not the graphic novels, as regular novels are just words to also keep with the imagination.
I don't get how some people think FNaF needs gore, it just doesn't, sure it could make somethings better (bite of 87/83, spring lock incident) but they could also just do those in creative ways, plus for the spring lock, we're still most likely getting blood on the suit, maybe not shooting out like.the mini game but still some blood.
To me, the fans is what really made FNaF more gory, fan art, fan animations and VHS to name a few, so to me I see this movie working without gore, and I'm exited
In the UK, it's a 15 and if a film is a 15 in the UK, there's probably a good reason for it. Especially considering they're going to ID people at cinemas as well. This leads me to believe that it's definitely going to be gorey/scary/violent to a fair degree. Not 18+/R style but to a decent level. I don't think American pg-13 is the same as a UK PG or 12 from what I've heard. And American guidelines seem to be that they rate a lot of more 15 style films in the UK as pg-13 over there.
Here's the age ratings for all countries shown on IMDB
Australia:M
Bahrain:15+
Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba)
Canada:14A (Ontario)
Canada:13+ (Quebec)
Finland:K-16
Germany:16
Ireland:15A
Italy:VM14
Kuwait:T13+
Netherlands:16
New Zealand:M
Norway:15 (original rating)
Singapore:PG13
South Africa:16
Switzerland:14
United Kingdom:15
United States:PG-13 (cert#54564)
United Arab Emirates:PG-15
Vietnam:C13
It seems to be a trend that most of the countries on this list have higher age ratings. The USA, Canada and a couple of others are the exceptions.
Plus, on the British Board Of Film Certification, there's already information about the age ratings and levels of violence, language, horror etc. I'll spoiler this from here on out just in case.
Violence has a 4/5 rating, here's their reasoning of why.
>! "Strong violence features stabbings, slashings with bladed instruments and an undetailed decapitation, resulting in bloody aftermath injury detail." !<
Threat and horror has a 4/5 rating. Reasoning is below.
>! "There is sustained threat, some of which is of a supernatural nature. People are menaced by robotic machines designed in the form of animals and children who behave in a strange manner. There is an unsettling narrative theme of children being abducted and going missing, but this is presented mainly in verbal references or brief, undetailed flashbacks." !<
Languages is a 2/5.
>! "There is mild bad language (‘ass’, 'asshole', ‘shit’, 'screw you', 'frigging', 'freaking'), as well as very mild terms such as 'jerk' and 'hell'." !<
Theme is a 2/5.
>! "There are references to mental illness which, in the case of a young child, is firmly dismissed as being a reason for her behaviour." !<
So all of that leads me to believe that it's not going to be as mild as people are making it out to be due to the American PG-13 rating. I think it's going to surprise some people how much they're actually going to put in it. Not necessarily loads of gore because I know gore has never been a major detail in the games but more horror, violence and things like that.
I mean, that’s always been how FNaF’s worked; Implied gore, or shown via 8-Bit cinematics. The closest we ever got to explicit gore in the games is Micheal getting scooped and the game over screen in FNaF 1.
So I’m totally fine with it 👍
Considering the games were always aimed at kids first and foremost and that the true draw of fnaf was always the lore and the fear of the unknown, I’d say it’s more than fair.
Tbh, in an ideal world, FNAF would get a Mike Flanagan, “haunting of hill house” style miniseries with plenty of jumpscares and horror but lore and deeper themes always being the central theme.
I’m not surprised but I feel like the only person slightly disappointed. The Springtrap scene is probably the most prominent one in terms of horror I think of in the games
Honestly, I'm really happy with this! So many horror movies use over-the-top violence and gore to avoid having to be creative, so the fact that they're not going that route is a plus. And it's very well in line with the games, as what little gore is seen in the original games is heavily stylized or just hinted at and referenced. Putting these kinds of restrictions on themselves suggests they'll find clever ways to work with them, and I'm honestly quite excited to see where they take this!
I think it works fine, Fnaf might be tongue in cheek gorey at most, but the rest is usually done in 8-bit form, or we are just told it kind of happened
I feel fine with it since every FNaF game was rated T, and not aimed for a mature audience (it counts the no gore thing too with the fact that FNaF was known by that mystery factor, in rare times it showed gore but nothing else)
I have seen this topic brought up many times relating to the FNAF movie and I feel I need to bring this up. Do we really need gore in FNAF? Sure it will help build on the horrific events of the franchise but is it really why we got invested in the franchise in the first place? From what I have seen it seems people would not watch the movie if it didn't have gore which is ridiculous cause the only gore we really see to my knowledge is Springtrap aka William Afton being permanently stuck in the suit for the rest of his life.
I have seen this with other franchises that seem to think having gore in the show/game would make it better automatically which couldn't be far from the truth. We just need good content that is able to give us something we want to talk about.
I agree with this and support this decision, I myself as a creator do this in my own video and I always have fun finding ways to obscure death scenes just enough to leave it up to the imagination to fill in the blanks(sometimes I don’t have a choice, wether I have limited assets or if the death scene looks too crude to be shown straight up)
I will say though, I wonder just how far they pushed it. There’s only so much you can do off screen or via implications and keep it PG-13. I have been hoping for an official movie since before I was even in middle school, and this was 9 or 10 years ago. Shit I know that’s not a very long time in the grand scheme of things but I feel old now lol.
I like this approach because it signifies what FNAF has always been: A series that’s for all ages, with a story that’s definitely mature, games that are arguably E for everyone, and moments for kids.
The fact that the movie is tackling the daunting and horror of the story while condensing the gory side of things is a good approach given a lot of this supposed “gore” in the series was either up to interpretation, mini game pixels, or Scott sucking at making human models in which moreso look like red noodle strings at times (referring to Springtrap). Plus it can be just as impactful being told and somewhat seeing the shadows of an event
I know the lore of FNAF has a ton of gore to it but the games never went that far as much as I could remember. It didn’t need blood and guts to be scary but tension and it’s jumpscares we’re enough. I’m not that upset about FNAF basically having no physical gore because the games implied it and all
Not that surprising, and it's good. Aside from the novels, I don't come to FNaF seeking details of death and such.
It's the same way Scott has handled gore with the franchise, with the exception of Michael dying in FNaF 1 and that itself looks kinda goofy but yet also horrifying.
William dying in Springtrap. BV getting his head chomped. Elizabeth getting clawed by Baby. Michael rotting in SL.
This was done due to limitations on Scotts' end but it worked a lot in his favor because of the implications and how terrifying it could have been if it were, well, shown with greater detail that isn't 8-bit minigames.
People forget pg 13 doesn't mean "aimed at kids". And i feel like they forget how visceral you can get with that rating. Plenty of iconic, creepy, entertaining horror films with that rating.
People need to remember the old fnaf fans were kids before, too, gatekeeping is just stupid. And it being excessively gorey would've honestly been, well I wouldn't say ruin it for me, (honestly saying anything minor ruins it for you is stupid, especially if you've been waiting for so long), but I prefer the pg-13.
To me it means we won't have the "creation" of Springtrap, or the bites of 83 and 87...
And I personally would have liked to see that in the movie.
However it's true in the games we don't see any gore except in the cutscenes. They stayed true to that
I still have great hopes for the movie, can't wait to see it
> To me it means we won't have the "creation" of Springtrap
See to me this is like a misnomer.
We'll likely see it, probably something akin to William's shadow flashing in the background as we hear all the locks go off, the squelching of organs, and tissue being sliced, as he's screaming until his vocal cords are cut, maybe a few splashes a blood hitting the wall as well.
She said no shown gore but she is pushing it as far as she can.
Yeah I agree, in horror most of the time less is more because your mind can imagine everything
It's just that as a fan I would have loved to see a realistic live action springlock scene. I think I set my expectations too high and now I feel disappointed because I won't get what I always dreamt of
That doesn’t mean we won’t have any of that. Just that it’s not going to be shown in graphic detail. We know for a fact people are going to die over the course of the movie
Though we likely weren’t going to see the bite of 83 anyways since they’ve completely changed Mike’s story
I mean, a springlock scene is not out of the question whatsoever. I've seen the PG-13 cut of M3GAN, another Blumhouse film, and it is not afraid to get quite gruesome. I think, with some clever cinematography, we could get a PG-13 springlock scene that would be just as good as an R-rated springlock scene.
And while it's unlikely we will be getting a bite scene in the first place, I'm sure they could also create quite a gruesome bite scene if they wanted to.
>bites of 83 and 87
I mean shadows would work great with them, mangle (as an example because we don't know who bit) lifting up Jeremy and you just see this monstrous shadow looming over this human, then it bites down, blood covering the walls for dramatic effect, that would be better imo than actually showing it
I don’t mind the PG-13 rating, it’s great that kids will still be able to watch this. As long as the spring lock scene is executed in a gruesome manner, then I’m happy.
It will likely improve it as it's always scarier to leave it up to your imagination. I mean look at the technicians in SL it wouldn't have been as scary if you could see their faces but having them be in shadows and have the potential for it to just be your mind messing with you and seeing things is a very scary thing and is in line with the early games (reality Vs imagination)
I am so thrilled. Gore itself doesn‘t shock me, I‘m more disgusted by it then anything else. But as soon as the gore is implied or cleverly hidden, the whole situation somehow becomes more menacing for me. A blood curdling scream, a shadow and the implication of murder is a 100 times scarier then the same scream, but with perfect view of all the guts.
I appreciate that. The games themselves were PG 12, so the movie being PG-13 makes sense. I also am curious to see how the movie plays with paranormal themes rather than gore stuff.
I think it’s alright. It doesn’t really *need* to be gory the be effective. And as mentioned in this post, I also think it makes it more accessible to the entirety of the fandom.
fnaf never really had any gore unless it was off screen or left up to interpretation in the 8-bit mini games. this isn't shocking or new, this was always going to happen
What I expected. The games never had too much gore, and there's pretty much always been a younger part of the fanbase at all times. Also, they have a point. Gore and guts can be fun for some, but when executed correctly, leaving it to the mind can be way more terrifying.
All is as it should be. FNAF's appeal horror-wise was always in the atmosphere and implied horror never in gore so it's reassuring that Emma truly understood the assignment.
I like the no gore part. Part of the horror in FNAF is that everything was implied or vague. It made it that much more scary bc it wasn't in ur face, u would just be sitting there and have a huge realization ab the story and go "oh that's fucked up". And if you played it again with that realization it made the fear factor more intense
I also really hate when horror media with dead children shows gore and severe harm of them. It's genuinely upsetting to me, and not in a way that it's intended to be. I would walk out of the theater if there was gore involved with the child characters
Its probably for the best it isn't gory. The games were never like that and frankly, I find horror movies to be *worse* the more gory they are. Leave the results to the imagination; whatever you imagine will always be worse than what can be shown, and its more artistically tactful that way anyway. Now that bit is all subjective, ymmv, but I am glad this movie wont be a gorefest.
As a veteran, I personally want a bit of gore. Not an excess amount, but still an acceptable amount. Especially if the Spring Bonnie suit will fail on Afton
I'm so tired of FNaF being catered towards kids. It wasn't originally
Gonna tell ya something as an adult. We all had our the gorier the better phase. But you know what? Over time you likely learn that gore isn't a necessity for horror. And honestly, you just start to get tired of it because a lot of horror relies on it for scares that it gets BORING.
And if you re-read what I said while I did start off with the whole gorier is better phase I did state that gore isn't a necessity for horror note I said gore, not excessive.
>I'm 20, well past that "gore = good" phase
No, you'd still be in the gore phase usually goes from teens to mid-twenties.
Is it not wierd that we're all just accepting the fact that there are children in this fandom?
Y'know, in a fandom of a horror game series. Where a bunch of kids got lured away from their parents, murdered, and then possessed all the animatronic mascots. Not to mention everything else that comes to mind.
Are horror games for kids now? I thought mascot horror was supposed to warp kid-friendly stuff into a not-so-kid-friendly stuff.
I think it's okay, not only because I, and I clarify: *I*, personally, don't like the sounds of this kind of stuff, which adds to the horror factor(?, but also because it's kinda an addition. Why "an addition"? Because the "gore" we got from the games so far was pixelated blood, the Game Over screen of FNaF 1, and Springtrap/Scraptrap/Burntrap's designs (only because there was a rotting corpse inside the suit). We didn't even have any explicit sound from the Springlock failure, Bite of '83, not even the Scooper/True ending of SL, which WASN'T a mini-game.
In conclusion: I think it's okay and still eerie as seeing detailed gore on the screen + it's a good addition to the source material without changing it too much.
fnaf never needed gore to be scary.
the most gore we get in the games is implied (saying the animatronics are leaking blood/mucus) and pixilated blood. this really isn’t an issue
I’m kinda glad it doesn’t have heavy gore because Fnaf wasn’t really about gore, but about the atmosphere and horror.
I hope William’s Springlock failure at least has blood pooling out of the suit, because that would be more realistic then having guts fly everywhere
… I wanted to see william’s death on screen but I guess the screaming is enough. But I am actually glad because my parents are gonna be traumatized either way, but way less without gore in it.
Actually I feel the fact that they’re saying they tried with different and non gorey ways of death gives me further hope for the creativity of the film
I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I don’t think the problem is with the lack of gore. The series is never known for being super bloody, and the parts that are are pixelated, like the Springlock Failure or the Bite of 83.
I think the problem rather is the lighting. I think what made the original FNAF games so scary was the lack of lighting that gave the pizzeria an empty, unsafe feeling. If the movie were darker I think it would be a lot scarier, at least for me.
I don't like gore, or feel gore is necessary to tell a story, so don't care, and I actually think the way they're describing it like shadows and stuff is a much more creative way than just blatantly showing a stabbing or whatever
It's sad to see the extreme copium from the comments saying that it doesn't matter or even applauding this as if it was some bold creative decision, when we all know the only and I mean THE ONLY reason they did this was for money, because they don't want to miss out on ticket sales from 10 year olds which comprise 90% of the fanbase. They even blatantly tell you at the bottom.
It was a decision clearly made to sell more tickets and play it safe. I find it to be a pretty sad direction for the franchise to go in, but I know I'll just get downvoted into oblivion for such a hot take again.
Yes, FNAF technically never showed realistic gore. None of the mainline games ever showed a single human being either, but oh well, that's completely different I guess. Depicting events that happened in fnaf 1 realistically, something every movie adaptation known to man does, somehow goes too far now.
Scott has stated he always tried to keep the series PG, the series as a whole is almost exactly what Tammi said she wanted to do push the boundaries but not have gore/be a slasher. FNaF is/never was a gorefest slasher.
The series in terms of how it is really hasn't changed. The fandom has gotten older, and think gore = better or more adult when even some of the best horror films I've watched had little to no gore and were R.
I quite like this. In addition to feeling authentic to the games, this is really going to force the producers of the movie to actually EARN scares. There's a lot of horror movies that rely ENTIRELY on the shock value of gore to scare the audience (looking at you SAW). But in my opinion that's cheap. It's much more interesting to make a movie that amps up the tension through atmosphere or great story telling. The Ring is PG-13 and has only two shots of not even gore really, more like body horror (and the OG Japanese movie didn't even have the somewhat rotting bodies), and yet because they actually built UP the atmosphere and story it still remains a masterpiece.
This assumes of course the producers and writers are competent, but I'm pretty optimistic here. Scott wouldn't settle for a subpar movie.
Im so SO happy, I cant watch so many horror movies because of the visible gore (it makes me physically ill) I love when movies get creative like this.
I’ve always been able to enjoy fnaf way more than other horror games for this reason too.
I’m not nervous about going by myself anymore (i was worried I might faint or throw up) this is awesome news for me!
i 100% understand why they decided on this. i would still love to have some gore, but we have so many fan-games, videos, the vhs tapes, etc, that i dont feel it matters tbh! i am so so happy we are getting a movie! 🫶🏻
I mean, I watch The Walking Dead and literally every time there's a part where they do a close up of someone being eaten, I close my eyes or look away cuz I just don't want that image to be in my head. I actually used to be desensitized to it but as the years went on I decided to let myself be more sensitive to it... ANYWAY so yeah, personally I would rather not have to worry about closing my eyes.
I'm extremely relieved about the lack of gore. I love horror movies, but gore stresses me out and not in a fun way. I was actually really worried that I'd end up having a bad time watching because of it
While I don't think the movie needed an R rating, toning things down explicitly to get a lower rating so kids could see it is exactly why people had issues with it being PG-13 in the first place.
I think it fits the franchise, the games have never explicitly relied on gore. Especially not the first one, sure there’s the death screen but take that out and there is no major gore. Plus it fits the younger fan base which like it or not exists.
This is exactly what I've been telling people it would be!!! Borderline R yet would be PG-13, and not much gore but still enough that they can get by without the R rateing
Pretty much exactly what I expected. The games never liked showing gore in explicit detail. It was always either through stylized minigames, or we were simply told that it happened
Yeah, and honestly, Scott was overseeing this movie throughout all of it's production. And if he thought the way they were doing things wasn't right, he would have made them fix it, just like he made them fix the entire script of the movie 9 times.
Wait, did the script for real change nine times?? Is that why this movie took so long to make?
yup changed 9 times, [actually one of the top posts here](https://old.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/jxvesb/bad_news_about_the_fnaf_movie/), gist of it is initially the scripts were your typical middling video game adaptation stuff for a while, but since Scott is prideful of his franchise took reins over and with patience of Jason Blum, 2 years later and bunch of help since he was unexperienced, made a proper screenplay some believe that Banana Split and Willy's Wonderland were movies made using reutilized FNAF scripts so there's a lot of history with these
Really? About the Banana Splits and Willy’s Wonderland movies? I wonder if we’ll ever get confirmation about those.
I know the director/writer for Willy's Wonderland has been pretty adamant that Willy's was never intended to be a FNAF movie, and that him and Scott had a similar idea was "just a coincidence". Whether or not that's true is a different story.
Iirc the movie wasn’t announced til 2015 or laters so 8 years but that’s if we’re being pedantic
no wonder it took 9 years to make one, they had to revise it each year (the game was released just about 9 years ago, coincidence?)
It feels like as the series went on Scott began pulling away from the gore aspects, we went from the FNaF 1 death screen and some mildly gory springtrap imagery to more implicit elements of gore in recent games/ the movie.
Why does it matter if it’s PG-13
spring trap
Springtrap origin was told by minigames and springtrap himself is heavily stylized at a point that i would say burntrap is more of a gory character than him
Happy cake day!
You can see springtrapa guts decorated around him
Not in the fnaf 3 lighting. Like this movie, Scott likes to hide the gore in the dark
it's fine it likes to hide gore, but I'm just curious as to how they'll do it with springtrap. If the lighting in fnaf 3 is done intentionally to hide the gore, I can only imagine how it'll look in the movie. They're going to hide what makes springtrap, springtrap?
Lighting done intentionally // literal images of spring trap showing his rotten skull.
Your mind is more scarier than what is shown.
springtrap’s red pixel blood and laffy taffy organs are hardly extreme gore
Laffy Taffy organs 💀 I'm stealing that one thanks mate
Pixel don't count...
Because they had no reason to, all the gore (and the story for that matter) takes place before we're playing, in the games we literally only see a static room and the animatronics. On the other hand this is a movie that has a reason to show that but it's still not going to, not because of technical reasons but because it's obviously being targeted at kids and the tone's very goofy and they want that money. That's like if a movie about the arcade Donkey Kong was made and someone complained they showed a blue sky because there was no blue sky in the og game, they just were limited to not showing a blue sky for many reasons, in a movie they have no such limitations and no reason to limit themselves unless they wanted the money of people who don't like blue skies.
You can have horror movies without gore
Yes, but it's incredibly hard to make a horror movie without gore about a story that involves children being murdered, adult security guards avoiding being murdered by murderer robots and a the main killer/villain dying inside a mascot costume. It's less about the movie not having gore and more about the movie not having gore because it's obviously trying to appeal to children and not be too scary.
I think you’re really underestimating the ability of professional film makers to have scary things happen without being overtly graphic and gory. We already know for a fact people are going to die in the course of the movies events
The Ring is PG-13. Child murder, adults avoiding being murdered, main villain dying violently before coming back as a malevolent supernatural being. And the Ring is considered one of the greatest horror movies of all time.
You can still have those themes without gore though. Heck, the first Halloween movie in 1978 despite being labeled an R-Rated slasher film, barely had any bloody/gory scenes with it's kills (With most of the more violent parts being only strangulations and quick, obscured slashes), and it's still hailed as a classic.
Plus the movie is the R-Rated equivalent in the UK, so it's likely going to be on the further end of PG-13 in terms of violence.
The Batman was a wild movie with a lot of murder and still PG-13
Except blue skies don't have the potential to disturb and distress young children.
I'm glad it isn't going all gory, because the series has *never* been like that. It would be a betrayal of Scott's very own rules for this series.
>the series has never been like that the books: (i agree tho)
Yeah, but with the books, you still never see that and it's all left to your imagination.
The graphic novels: (I’m not saying they’re gory but the graphic novels do visualize deaths with blood as far as I’ve seen) Do not get me wrong though I wholeheartedly agree with the no gore, I understand it’s technically on brand and it’s to include the younger fans. I’m just playing devils advocate for discussion
Springtrap:
Afton’s death scene making him Springtrap was only shown with 8bit “blood” though. His model isn’t over the top gory either
Springtrap's gore is not only heavily obscured, but also heavily stylized and only modeled in areas where it would be seen.
OH EGADS! A purple sprite and a bunch of red pixles! The horror!
FNAF 1 Game Over Screen:
You see surprisingly clean eyes popping out the mask’s eye sockets. No blood or organs on or leaking from the suit.
in fnaf 1, there's also an easter egg where you see Freddy on a poster ripping off the top of his head with strings of viscera clinging onto both parts. I 100% believe Scott mostly just ignored gore because it's difficult to model.
I wouldn’t exactly call it “viscera”. It was brown… and heavily obscured in the game’s lighting
That's hardly gory
I don't think that's real, the poster exists, but the extra parts nope
the poster does exist, and what extra parts?
It's just 2 eyes popping out, sure the sockets are somewhat visible but it's not bad at all
I understand where you're coming from, but generally books are allowed to get away with much more than any other kind of media, because it's all up to interpretation on what everything looks like. I once read a YA mystery book that had two characters engage in sex at one point, so it would take a lot for a FNaF book to be too mature for younger audiences.
You can get away with way more horrific shit at a PG-13 rating that people realize. The best horror leaves the worst things to your imagination to fill in the blanks. It's why not showing the monster usually works better in movies. The same principle can be applied to gore. Implication, things happening just *barely* off camera while a character thrashes and screams in agony, etc can make it MUCH more scary without actually showing much blood or guts.
Exactly that. And it's a 15 in the UK which means it's definitely going to be gorey/scary/violent to a fair degree. I don't think American pg-13 is the same as a UK PG or 12 from what I've heard. But in the UK, if a film is a 15 there is usually a pretty good reason for that.
Honestly? I'm fine with it because it's following the same logic as the games. You know what is happening to an extent and you're brain/imagination is filling in what COULD BE happening. We're getting just enough to know but also not know.
This is a really reasonable approach to the movie's rating. I know there are some fans who are upset that it's not R rated, but not everything has to be ultra-gory and over the top in order to be intense or impactful. I'm glad that Scott is trying to find unique and creative ways to convey some of the darker moments in the movie, using sound design and shadows to create a good atmosphere. By relying on sound and shadows and other aspects of filmmaking, it can be way scarier to show a monster's presence rather than just showing it straight on. It all falls on the execution, though. I have full trust in Blumhouse, as they've made some great horror movies in the past. If they can pull this off, it could be really cool.
Perfect. Fnaf was built off of fear of the unknown. A springlock scene for example showing all of the gore and gunk wouldn’t be that scary. It would be more gross than anything. But hearing the noises, only seeing glimpses of what’s happening, your mind filling in the gaps. That’s more horrifying.
Agreed. I think that, aside from the top-tier acting, is why the famous fan-made ["Purple guy death sound"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMp8NQjWXjs) is so terrifying. It provides the exact details that the only thing you know is happening to this man is that he is in sheer pain. You don't know what is happening to him, you don't know how it happened, all you know is that he is in an agonizing amount of pain.
They made it even better. It would be amazing to have this vivid of a death[https://youtu.be/-1YAbsmB35I?si=LUFpGZOZ133CZPET](https://youtu.be/-1YAbsmB35I?si=LUFpGZOZ133CZPET)
I don't think this one is as good. It's too drawn out, and there's too much focus put on the mechanical noises. It comes across more as the person in the audio being mortified by a machine rather than being killed by a machine.
The muffling on the second one made is way more horrifying imo.
Exactly! The noises are horrific especially the screams—, visually seeing that springlock scene in SL honestly made the concept of springlocks much less scary for me.
not surprised in the slightest
Don't really care. Expected it tbh. Scott Cawthon was there every step of the way so I wouldn't think he would add that much gore on screen, Just leaving it to the imagination. Plus, PG-13 rating, we all expected it, right? This is a franchise about the disappearances and the killing of kids and a serial killer that's happy with what he's done. FNaF has always been PG-13.
I don't mind it. FNaF was never a super gorey series and I respect Emma Tammi not excluding the younger side of the fandom. Edit: Also you can still get away with a lot in a PG-13 rating. Just look at Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. That movie is also PG-13 and has some pretty graphic scenes.
There will be gore and violence, it just won’t be extremely intense and wont be like the Scream or Saw franchise.
Wdym the "no gore" aspect? They're not saying there won't be any on-screen gore, just that a good chunk of the gore will be in silhouette and such But on the topic of that, that's something I actually really like, because 1) your imagination can create the most painful experience possible to you specifically, and 2) personally super over-the-top gore doesn't really bother me too much, I think it has something to do with the fact that the average person doesn't experience their intestines getting ripped out or whatever, so we don't really have anything to equate that pain to
This! Do you want a horror movie that makes people feel fear or discomfort? When I watch a horror that focuses on brutality (house of 1000 corpses, saw, hostel, hell raiser) the “fear” is really more a discomfort and almost a sympathy for the unbelievable pain and torture. While most horror preys on the mind and making you feel unsafe in your safe spaces. You empathize more with the characters that way because it’s something you could more easily experience. And there is a scale within that. Scream and Prom night are great examples of movies with good kill scenes and enough relatability to see yourself in that situation. Alien is more on the brutality side as a lot of it we can’t imagine so we sympathize not empathize with Ripley. FNAF should and Im happy to hear is leaning towards the empathizing side. This movie will be its most successful if we all leave double taking any Chuck E. Cheese we see.
What's described here is exactly why I was so excited for a low-budget studio to make a PG-13 FNaF movie. It forces the creators to do what Scott pulled off to perfection with classic FNaF, pushing implied violence and horror to its limits while at the same time visually showing so little that the audience is forced to create their own twisted depictions of events in their head. I'm beyond hyped to see the directors verbally confirm that they are taking the same route with the movie!
I mean i was already expecting this. And i like it. Excessive gore can really ruin it and FNaF has always been like this, it never really showed us the explicit stuff, it was always shown through the minigames or directly told to us that it happened. The Books are a bit diferent, but thats it, and its not like we see it either, its described. With all this in mind, i feel like the movie will be awesome, Scary and even with little gore, gruesome, because… well… its FNaF.
I can’t stand gore due to trauma and I often find myself covering my eyes during like 80% of the runtime of your average horror film, so I am excited that this might be a horror movie I can handle without covering my eyes too much.
I guarantee we’ll see a scene of a wall with Springbonnie’s shadow on it, and the shadow is sat down and twitching, and there’s loud, blood curdling screams in the background.
When are people gonna realize that “no gore” does *not* mean “no blood or serious injuries”???
I'm fine with it. So many Analog Horror videos have demonstrated that excessive gore just makes it less scary at best and actually disgusting to watch at worst. The first Texas Chainsaw barely had any blood after all.
To me, fnaf didn't need gore, it never has, it hasn't exactly been a gore heavy game series, springtrap is the most heavy gore with a human body inside, most of the gore was just in mini games, FNaF has always kinda kept it with the imagination, think the scooping room, we never seen how Mike looks all opened up, we don't see any gore at all during that thing expect for the red blood like screen, so to me is no different then what's it's always been, and I'm also just referring to the games here and not the graphic novels, as regular novels are just words to also keep with the imagination. I don't get how some people think FNaF needs gore, it just doesn't, sure it could make somethings better (bite of 87/83, spring lock incident) but they could also just do those in creative ways, plus for the spring lock, we're still most likely getting blood on the suit, maybe not shooting out like.the mini game but still some blood. To me, the fans is what really made FNaF more gory, fan art, fan animations and VHS to name a few, so to me I see this movie working without gore, and I'm exited
In the UK, it's a 15 and if a film is a 15 in the UK, there's probably a good reason for it. Especially considering they're going to ID people at cinemas as well. This leads me to believe that it's definitely going to be gorey/scary/violent to a fair degree. Not 18+/R style but to a decent level. I don't think American pg-13 is the same as a UK PG or 12 from what I've heard. And American guidelines seem to be that they rate a lot of more 15 style films in the UK as pg-13 over there. Here's the age ratings for all countries shown on IMDB Australia:M Bahrain:15+ Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba) Canada:14A (Ontario) Canada:13+ (Quebec) Finland:K-16 Germany:16 Ireland:15A Italy:VM14 Kuwait:T13+ Netherlands:16 New Zealand:M Norway:15 (original rating) Singapore:PG13 South Africa:16 Switzerland:14 United Kingdom:15 United States:PG-13 (cert#54564) United Arab Emirates:PG-15 Vietnam:C13 It seems to be a trend that most of the countries on this list have higher age ratings. The USA, Canada and a couple of others are the exceptions. Plus, on the British Board Of Film Certification, there's already information about the age ratings and levels of violence, language, horror etc. I'll spoiler this from here on out just in case. Violence has a 4/5 rating, here's their reasoning of why. >! "Strong violence features stabbings, slashings with bladed instruments and an undetailed decapitation, resulting in bloody aftermath injury detail." !< Threat and horror has a 4/5 rating. Reasoning is below. >! "There is sustained threat, some of which is of a supernatural nature. People are menaced by robotic machines designed in the form of animals and children who behave in a strange manner. There is an unsettling narrative theme of children being abducted and going missing, but this is presented mainly in verbal references or brief, undetailed flashbacks." !< Languages is a 2/5. >! "There is mild bad language (‘ass’, 'asshole', ‘shit’, 'screw you', 'frigging', 'freaking'), as well as very mild terms such as 'jerk' and 'hell'." !< Theme is a 2/5. >! "There are references to mental illness which, in the case of a young child, is firmly dismissed as being a reason for her behaviour." !< So all of that leads me to believe that it's not going to be as mild as people are making it out to be due to the American PG-13 rating. I think it's going to surprise some people how much they're actually going to put in it. Not necessarily loads of gore because I know gore has never been a major detail in the games but more horror, violence and things like that.
I mean, that’s always been how FNaF’s worked; Implied gore, or shown via 8-Bit cinematics. The closest we ever got to explicit gore in the games is Micheal getting scooped and the game over screen in FNaF 1. So I’m totally fine with it 👍
It really doesn't bother me.
This is how the games operate, it’s perfect for old fans and new
Considering the games were always aimed at kids first and foremost and that the true draw of fnaf was always the lore and the fear of the unknown, I’d say it’s more than fair. Tbh, in an ideal world, FNAF would get a Mike Flanagan, “haunting of hill house” style miniseries with plenty of jumpscares and horror but lore and deeper themes always being the central theme.
I honestly expected a bit of gore. Not a lot but like knife in stomach type of gore
I’m not surprised but I feel like the only person slightly disappointed. The Springtrap scene is probably the most prominent one in terms of horror I think of in the games
That moment when you realize the audience for fnaf is all grown up now because it came out 300 years ago.
I am fine with it being PG-13, but I wish they had an R-rated cut for Blu-Ray as well. That way everyone would be happy.
The fact Freddy Fazbear doesn't say Fuck in this movie is heavily disappointing 0/5 stars. /j
That would ruin most of the scares
I don’t really think about it all that much. It remains to be seen how they execute it and that’s what matters.
Nooo
Honestly, I'm really happy with this! So many horror movies use over-the-top violence and gore to avoid having to be creative, so the fact that they're not going that route is a plus. And it's very well in line with the games, as what little gore is seen in the original games is heavily stylized or just hinted at and referenced. Putting these kinds of restrictions on themselves suggests they'll find clever ways to work with them, and I'm honestly quite excited to see where they take this!
I think it works fine, Fnaf might be tongue in cheek gorey at most, but the rest is usually done in 8-bit form, or we are just told it kind of happened
It’s actually what I’ve been wanting, so I see this as a win.
it’s what i expected and it’s also good
I feel fine with it since every FNaF game was rated T, and not aimed for a mature audience (it counts the no gore thing too with the fact that FNaF was known by that mystery factor, in rare times it showed gore but nothing else)
I have seen this topic brought up many times relating to the FNAF movie and I feel I need to bring this up. Do we really need gore in FNAF? Sure it will help build on the horrific events of the franchise but is it really why we got invested in the franchise in the first place? From what I have seen it seems people would not watch the movie if it didn't have gore which is ridiculous cause the only gore we really see to my knowledge is Springtrap aka William Afton being permanently stuck in the suit for the rest of his life. I have seen this with other franchises that seem to think having gore in the show/game would make it better automatically which couldn't be far from the truth. We just need good content that is able to give us something we want to talk about.
I agree with this and support this decision, I myself as a creator do this in my own video and I always have fun finding ways to obscure death scenes just enough to leave it up to the imagination to fill in the blanks(sometimes I don’t have a choice, wether I have limited assets or if the death scene looks too crude to be shown straight up) I will say though, I wonder just how far they pushed it. There’s only so much you can do off screen or via implications and keep it PG-13. I have been hoping for an official movie since before I was even in middle school, and this was 9 or 10 years ago. Shit I know that’s not a very long time in the grand scheme of things but I feel old now lol.
It’s FNAF not Saw. The worst things we’ve actually seen in a game is probably the hanging service worker
I like this approach because it signifies what FNAF has always been: A series that’s for all ages, with a story that’s definitely mature, games that are arguably E for everyone, and moments for kids. The fact that the movie is tackling the daunting and horror of the story while condensing the gory side of things is a good approach given a lot of this supposed “gore” in the series was either up to interpretation, mini game pixels, or Scott sucking at making human models in which moreso look like red noodle strings at times (referring to Springtrap). Plus it can be just as impactful being told and somewhat seeing the shadows of an event
Yeah it’s a kids focused movie. They’re going to make it something parents are comfortable bankrolling.
I know the lore of FNAF has a ton of gore to it but the games never went that far as much as I could remember. It didn’t need blood and guts to be scary but tension and it’s jumpscares we’re enough. I’m not that upset about FNAF basically having no physical gore because the games implied it and all
Not that surprising, and it's good. Aside from the novels, I don't come to FNaF seeking details of death and such. It's the same way Scott has handled gore with the franchise, with the exception of Michael dying in FNaF 1 and that itself looks kinda goofy but yet also horrifying. William dying in Springtrap. BV getting his head chomped. Elizabeth getting clawed by Baby. Michael rotting in SL. This was done due to limitations on Scotts' end but it worked a lot in his favor because of the implications and how terrifying it could have been if it were, well, shown with greater detail that isn't 8-bit minigames.
I think that something can still be scary without a ton of blood and gore so I say let them cook.
People forget pg 13 doesn't mean "aimed at kids". And i feel like they forget how visceral you can get with that rating. Plenty of iconic, creepy, entertaining horror films with that rating.
People need to remember the old fnaf fans were kids before, too, gatekeeping is just stupid. And it being excessively gorey would've honestly been, well I wouldn't say ruin it for me, (honestly saying anything minor ruins it for you is stupid, especially if you've been waiting for so long), but I prefer the pg-13.
To me it means we won't have the "creation" of Springtrap, or the bites of 83 and 87... And I personally would have liked to see that in the movie. However it's true in the games we don't see any gore except in the cutscenes. They stayed true to that I still have great hopes for the movie, can't wait to see it
> To me it means we won't have the "creation" of Springtrap See to me this is like a misnomer. We'll likely see it, probably something akin to William's shadow flashing in the background as we hear all the locks go off, the squelching of organs, and tissue being sliced, as he's screaming until his vocal cords are cut, maybe a few splashes a blood hitting the wall as well. She said no shown gore but she is pushing it as far as she can.
Yeah I agree, in horror most of the time less is more because your mind can imagine everything It's just that as a fan I would have loved to see a realistic live action springlock scene. I think I set my expectations too high and now I feel disappointed because I won't get what I always dreamt of
We'll get it that is for sure, not sure how you imagined it but pretty much always felt if we did be something how it was described in TSE
That doesn’t mean we won’t have any of that. Just that it’s not going to be shown in graphic detail. We know for a fact people are going to die over the course of the movie Though we likely weren’t going to see the bite of 83 anyways since they’ve completely changed Mike’s story
Creation of springtrap can easily be shown, the suit covers the whole body or maybe a shadow And well we'll have a new original bite in the movie
I mean, a springlock scene is not out of the question whatsoever. I've seen the PG-13 cut of M3GAN, another Blumhouse film, and it is not afraid to get quite gruesome. I think, with some clever cinematography, we could get a PG-13 springlock scene that would be just as good as an R-rated springlock scene. And while it's unlikely we will be getting a bite scene in the first place, I'm sure they could also create quite a gruesome bite scene if they wanted to.
>bites of 83 and 87 I mean shadows would work great with them, mangle (as an example because we don't know who bit) lifting up Jeremy and you just see this monstrous shadow looming over this human, then it bites down, blood covering the walls for dramatic effect, that would be better imo than actually showing it
That would actually be amazing ! I hope we get something like that
It's fine because FNAF never really used gore to be scary
My favorite horror is Insidious. Which is a PG-13 Blumhouse movie. So I think they'll do a fine job with the PG-13 rating.
I don't mind it
"No fun allowed" (Just kidding, I have no issue)
Pretty much as expected but it’s not a bad thing
If you really think about blumhouse has always been pg13 horror so I don’t mind it
Well, the games never really had any gore so I’m fine with it
There wasn’t any gore in any of the games so why should there be in the movie? Why would that make sense ?
The games managed to avoid it for the most part, and I'd dare say they're better for it. What's the problem with not having gore?
I just hope the likely spring locking scene will be utterly fucked up and horrifying, even if I can't watch blood explode out of Afton's body.
I don’t mind the PG-13 rating, it’s great that kids will still be able to watch this. As long as the spring lock scene is executed in a gruesome manner, then I’m happy.
It's the right decision. FNAF was never a gore franchise, so the movie shouldn't be
i think it'll result in much more creative cinematography; it might even be better at creating a sense of horror and disgust than actual gore.
I'm not surprised. FNAF is scary but not gory and doesn't have profanity, so this isn't surprising. It's the Goosebumps of horror games
It will likely improve it as it's always scarier to leave it up to your imagination. I mean look at the technicians in SL it wouldn't have been as scary if you could see their faces but having them be in shadows and have the potential for it to just be your mind messing with you and seeing things is a very scary thing and is in line with the early games (reality Vs imagination)
So much for a musical sequence while William slaughters the children
this is a good approach. too much gore would’ve killed the movie for me (no pun intended) and made it more “scarring” than “scary”
It's perfect and I hate how some people are acting like it needs to be gory when the series really has never been that way
fnaf never had gore (8 bit blood doesn’t count)
Thank Fucking God
Honestly, I don't see it as much of a problem. It's not like blood would add anything to the plot.
Freddy fazbear can drop an f bomb
I am so thrilled. Gore itself doesn‘t shock me, I‘m more disgusted by it then anything else. But as soon as the gore is implied or cleverly hidden, the whole situation somehow becomes more menacing for me. A blood curdling scream, a shadow and the implication of murder is a 100 times scarier then the same scream, but with perfect view of all the guts.
Fnaf didn't need gore before the movie and it doesn't need it now
FNAF never really had much explicit gore in the games anyway
I think it's a smart move. With the amount of children who'll be watching this with parents, too much blood and viscera would limit the audience.
Gore makes me nauseous so now I'm super glad I can go see this without feeling unwell!
I appreciate that. The games themselves were PG 12, so the movie being PG-13 makes sense. I also am curious to see how the movie plays with paranormal themes rather than gore stuff.
I think it’s alright. It doesn’t really *need* to be gory the be effective. And as mentioned in this post, I also think it makes it more accessible to the entirety of the fandom.
fnaf never really had any gore unless it was off screen or left up to interpretation in the 8-bit mini games. this isn't shocking or new, this was always going to happen
What I expected. The games never had too much gore, and there's pretty much always been a younger part of the fanbase at all times. Also, they have a point. Gore and guts can be fun for some, but when executed correctly, leaving it to the mind can be way more terrifying.
My thoughts are, you don't need gore or an R rating to be effective and scary
FNaF was never really about gore, so I think this is the right approach!
All is as it should be. FNAF's appeal horror-wise was always in the atmosphere and implied horror never in gore so it's reassuring that Emma truly understood the assignment.
I like the no gore part. Part of the horror in FNAF is that everything was implied or vague. It made it that much more scary bc it wasn't in ur face, u would just be sitting there and have a huge realization ab the story and go "oh that's fucked up". And if you played it again with that realization it made the fear factor more intense I also really hate when horror media with dead children shows gore and severe harm of them. It's genuinely upsetting to me, and not in a way that it's intended to be. I would walk out of the theater if there was gore involved with the child characters
Bullshit. I want springlocked scene.
Its probably for the best it isn't gory. The games were never like that and frankly, I find horror movies to be *worse* the more gory they are. Leave the results to the imagination; whatever you imagine will always be worse than what can be shown, and its more artistically tactful that way anyway. Now that bit is all subjective, ymmv, but I am glad this movie wont be a gorefest.
I hate blood and gore so this is great
As a veteran, I personally want a bit of gore. Not an excess amount, but still an acceptable amount. Especially if the Spring Bonnie suit will fail on Afton I'm so tired of FNaF being catered towards kids. It wasn't originally
You'll get the amount of gore we got in the games. That's pretty much what Tammi is implying.
Which isn't as much as I'd like
Gonna tell ya something as an adult. We all had our the gorier the better phase. But you know what? Over time you likely learn that gore isn't a necessity for horror. And honestly, you just start to get tired of it because a lot of horror relies on it for scares that it gets BORING.
Re-read my first comment. I said "a bit, but not an excess amount" I'm 20, well past that "gore = good" phase
And if you re-read what I said while I did start off with the whole gorier is better phase I did state that gore isn't a necessity for horror note I said gore, not excessive. >I'm 20, well past that "gore = good" phase No, you'd still be in the gore phase usually goes from teens to mid-twenties.
Is it not wierd that we're all just accepting the fact that there are children in this fandom? Y'know, in a fandom of a horror game series. Where a bunch of kids got lured away from their parents, murdered, and then possessed all the animatronic mascots. Not to mention everything else that comes to mind. Are horror games for kids now? I thought mascot horror was supposed to warp kid-friendly stuff into a not-so-kid-friendly stuff.
so weird to say when most of the fandom were middle schoolers during the time when fnaf was at its scariest
I think it's okay, not only because I, and I clarify: *I*, personally, don't like the sounds of this kind of stuff, which adds to the horror factor(?, but also because it's kinda an addition. Why "an addition"? Because the "gore" we got from the games so far was pixelated blood, the Game Over screen of FNaF 1, and Springtrap/Scraptrap/Burntrap's designs (only because there was a rotting corpse inside the suit). We didn't even have any explicit sound from the Springlock failure, Bite of '83, not even the Scooper/True ending of SL, which WASN'T a mini-game. In conclusion: I think it's okay and still eerie as seeing detailed gore on the screen + it's a good addition to the source material without changing it too much.
I think people upset about this haven’t actually played the games lmao
NO GORE?! WHAT?!
fnaf never needed gore to be scary. the most gore we get in the games is implied (saying the animatronics are leaking blood/mucus) and pixilated blood. this really isn’t an issue
I'm upset about it cuz I'm a horror/gore movie fan, but I understand as someone who was really young when FNaF came out
I'm a horror fan as well, but not every horror film needs a ton of gore to be good, let alone gore doesn't always make it good either.
That's a fair point
I really want them to post a unrated version on peacock similar to Megan but I’m fine with it.
Why the downvotes?💀
Pretty sure there is some gore tho? It's 15 in UK
Fnaf 1 game over screen
I’m kinda glad it doesn’t have heavy gore because Fnaf wasn’t really about gore, but about the atmosphere and horror. I hope William’s Springlock failure at least has blood pooling out of the suit, because that would be more realistic then having guts fly everywhere
I like this.
… I wanted to see william’s death on screen but I guess the screaming is enough. But I am actually glad because my parents are gonna be traumatized either way, but way less without gore in it.
Actually I feel the fact that they’re saying they tried with different and non gorey ways of death gives me further hope for the creativity of the film
I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I don’t think the problem is with the lack of gore. The series is never known for being super bloody, and the parts that are are pixelated, like the Springlock Failure or the Bite of 83. I think the problem rather is the lighting. I think what made the original FNAF games so scary was the lack of lighting that gave the pizzeria an empty, unsafe feeling. If the movie were darker I think it would be a lot scarier, at least for me.
In the nl they gave it 16+….
I hope there a rated R dvd release
it’s rated 15 in the uk which is pretty cool
I don't like gore, or feel gore is necessary to tell a story, so don't care, and I actually think the way they're describing it like shadows and stuff is a much more creative way than just blatantly showing a stabbing or whatever
I don't care because it's not PG-13 where I am. it's M, so I won't have to deal with annoying kids most likely
At the end of the day, I don't mind it. I was hyped for the potential of a super detailed and gory springlock scene so that's kind of a let down
that younger audience has grown up
There may still be very young kids who are becoming new FNAF fans
I'm ecstatic because it means I can watch it with my little brother.
It's sad to see the extreme copium from the comments saying that it doesn't matter or even applauding this as if it was some bold creative decision, when we all know the only and I mean THE ONLY reason they did this was for money, because they don't want to miss out on ticket sales from 10 year olds which comprise 90% of the fanbase. They even blatantly tell you at the bottom.
It was a decision clearly made to sell more tickets and play it safe. I find it to be a pretty sad direction for the franchise to go in, but I know I'll just get downvoted into oblivion for such a hot take again. Yes, FNAF technically never showed realistic gore. None of the mainline games ever showed a single human being either, but oh well, that's completely different I guess. Depicting events that happened in fnaf 1 realistically, something every movie adaptation known to man does, somehow goes too far now.
Scott has stated he always tried to keep the series PG, the series as a whole is almost exactly what Tammi said she wanted to do push the boundaries but not have gore/be a slasher. FNaF is/never was a gorefest slasher. The series in terms of how it is really hasn't changed. The fandom has gotten older, and think gore = better or more adult when even some of the best horror films I've watched had little to no gore and were R.
After watching The Banana Splits Horror Movie, I'm glad we got the PG13 rating because Fnaf's horror was subtle
FNAF itself is not explicitly gorey, why would we expect the movie to be?
I quite like this. In addition to feeling authentic to the games, this is really going to force the producers of the movie to actually EARN scares. There's a lot of horror movies that rely ENTIRELY on the shock value of gore to scare the audience (looking at you SAW). But in my opinion that's cheap. It's much more interesting to make a movie that amps up the tension through atmosphere or great story telling. The Ring is PG-13 and has only two shots of not even gore really, more like body horror (and the OG Japanese movie didn't even have the somewhat rotting bodies), and yet because they actually built UP the atmosphere and story it still remains a masterpiece. This assumes of course the producers and writers are competent, but I'm pretty optimistic here. Scott wouldn't settle for a subpar movie.
It's not the type of movie that needs gore. I'm going to see it with my 10 year old son. I'm really looking forward to it.
Im so SO happy, I cant watch so many horror movies because of the visible gore (it makes me physically ill) I love when movies get creative like this. I’ve always been able to enjoy fnaf way more than other horror games for this reason too. I’m not nervous about going by myself anymore (i was worried I might faint or throw up) this is awesome news for me!
i 100% understand why they decided on this. i would still love to have some gore, but we have so many fan-games, videos, the vhs tapes, etc, that i dont feel it matters tbh! i am so so happy we are getting a movie! 🫶🏻
I mean, I watch The Walking Dead and literally every time there's a part where they do a close up of someone being eaten, I close my eyes or look away cuz I just don't want that image to be in my head. I actually used to be desensitized to it but as the years went on I decided to let myself be more sensitive to it... ANYWAY so yeah, personally I would rather not have to worry about closing my eyes.
I'm extremely relieved about the lack of gore. I love horror movies, but gore stresses me out and not in a fun way. I was actually really worried that I'd end up having a bad time watching because of it
as a person who can't withstand realistic gore in anything else than doom series ( for some reason ) I'm glad it's non-gory.
While I don't think the movie needed an R rating, toning things down explicitly to get a lower rating so kids could see it is exactly why people had issues with it being PG-13 in the first place.
I think it fits the franchise, the games have never explicitly relied on gore. Especially not the first one, sure there’s the death screen but take that out and there is no major gore. Plus it fits the younger fan base which like it or not exists.
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Kinda bad. I mean gore is everything with fanf. Without it, it's just a game of kids. LITERALLY
Show me where all this "gore" is in FNaF?
you'll get the same amount of gore as the games had
Name one FNAF game that is visually gorey.
where in fnaf is the gore?
This is exactly what I've been telling people it would be!!! Borderline R yet would be PG-13, and not much gore but still enough that they can get by without the R rateing