Five Nights at Freddy’s Is Innovative, Nostalgic, and Divisive

Cinematic adaptations of video games are becoming more common, and this 2023 horror film is a worthy addition to the lineage

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Through much of the history of video games, their plots could be summed up as barely more than: “get from point A to point B” or “defeat the bad guy.” And it’s true that there are certainly still those projects where simplicity reigns supreme. But increasingly common are those games where the story expands beyond what can be ex…