The fight for survival continues in Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. The sequel, based on the popular video game, hits theaters on Dec. 5 with Josh Hutcherson returning as Mike Schmidt in the aftermath of a brutal supernatural showdown in the first film. In the latest Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 trailer, Mike is a little more prepared, but there are only so many ways to get ready for a battle with possessed animatronics.
The film picks up one year after the events at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza in 2023’s Five Nights at Freddy’s. “The stories about what transpired there have been twisted into a campy local legend, inspiring the town’s first-ever Fazfest,” a brief synopsis of the film reads. Vanessa Shelly (Elizabeth Lail) also returns, seemingly recovered from the coma she ended up in at the end of the previous film. Meanwhile, Mike’s younger sister, Abby (Piper Rubio), still hasn’t learned the truth about her unusual friends.
More lore from the video game seeps into the film as Mike wields the Freddy Mask, a mechanic that deters the animatronics. “There’s no way that’ll work,” he says in the clip before picking it up anyway. It’s his only shot, and he can’t afford to miss it. “Anyone can survive five nights,” the tagline for the movie reads. “This time, there will be no second chances.”
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 will also star Theodus Crane, Matthew Lillard, Freddy Carter, Wayne Knight, McKenna Grace, and Skeet Ulrich. Emma Tammi will direct.
“As a narrative that pretends to plumb the dark absence of missing children, however, Five Nights at Freddy’s is curiously inert, unwilling to get under your skin even as it grows dense with explanations of what’s happening,” Rolling Stone wrote in a review of Five Nights at Freddy’s. “It’s unfair to compare the menacing robot bear to Freddy Krueger, the iconic kid-killer who shares his name.”