Recently fired and desperate for work, a troubled young man named Mike agrees to take a position as a night security guard at an abandoned theme restaurant: Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. But he soon discovers that nothing at Freddy's is what it seems.
This movie contains 58 potentially triggering events.
There's a very small detail that was mostly removed from the movie, where a character that dies within the first half of the movie has a dog, and I think you can still see the dog in the car before they die, so you could infer that the dog was left behind when the character died, but this is never mentioned or brought up.
Two instances of implied child abuse. The first is a custody battle that takes up a significant portion of the plot, where an aunt tries to take a child away from her brother and guardian. The child makes her dislike of the aunt clear by saying she's 'mean and smells like cigarettes', the aunt is said to only be interested in taking the child for the money, and the aunt's first scene has her talk about the child in a cruel way to her teachers and current guardian. The second instance reveals that an adult character is related to an antagonist, with the heavy implication that they were psychologically and emotionally abused through the actor's performance and dialogue. The climax has the aforementioned antagonist physically attack this character, culminating in them getting stabbed in graphic detail (they survive).
Female characters die and are injured, but most of the scenes aren't particularly gendered and are plot-important. In terms of triggers, the most potentially upsetting instance occurs during the climax, which has DV themes contextually. That said, the character survives to the end and appears in one of the last scenes recovering in a hospital.
honestly, i would definitely say yes. but, i will list the instances of gaslighting below and you can make the judgement for yourself.
-Mike’s aunt repeatedly told him that he wasn’t good, or capable, enough to care for his younger sister.
-(^^^) Mike’s parents and brother told him the same thing in one of his dreams.
-the animatronics attacked William and he got scared, he went on to say things such as: “i created you, you’re nothing without me.”, “you’re small and pathetic”, etc.
-William told his daughter Vanessa, “now i have to clean up the mess [the murdered children] that YOU created.” (she never had anything to do with his crimes. she was innocent, he made the choice and acted alone.)
No actual rabbits, but two of the animatronics resemble them. The backstory establishes that the villain wore one of the rabbit animatronics to lure five children into the backroom of Freddy's, killing them and stuffing their bodies into the animatronics. This includes the other rabbit animatronic, Bonnie. Both rabbits are shown in horror contexts as leporiphobia imagery. Bonnie has a recurring problem with shorting out, and has a minor lighthearted slapstick moment.
Idk where else to put this there's not a category for it - there's a brief shot of a rat running past when a character is crawling through a ventilation shaft near the end, if anyone is scared of those
There is no pedophilia. That said, the villain's M.O. may be triggering due to evoking child predators. He is a serial killer who lured five kids into the back room by wearing a mascot costume of one of the beloved characters at the restaurant, which ended in their deaths. There is also recurring imagery of a car driving away with an abducted child looking out the back window.
An early scene has Mike chase down what he believes to be a child abductor and assaults him inside the mall fountain. It's not *held*, but more attacking them inside a water feature.
Since there isn't a specific question for it in this list; technically yes. We only see the shadows when it happens, but someone is bit in half. We do later see their top half, but it's in darkness so you can recognise the character but not see the aftermath.
one of the punks who broke into the pizzeria was attacked by Chica’s cupcake. it latched onto his face/head, and the aftermath of the attack was briefly shown later in the movie.
Mike gets cut by one of the children near the back of his leg which causes him to fall, I don’t think it was an achilles tendon injury though as it’s pretty high up on his leg
Some prolonged off-screen deaths where you hear people screaming in pain. Also a couple scenes of people being threatened with what is essentially a torture device, in the opening (it cuts away before you see the death) and on two other occassions where the characters escape unharmed
The main characters (Mike and Abby) do not die. However, one of the other main characters is stabbed. We do not see the outcome of this.
Almost every side-character is killed.
many times 😭 both on-screen and off screen. there was also a major character in the hospital and in a coma-like state at the end of the movie, and it never revealed if they woke up or not.
Main character has a dead mother, and a father dies at the end of the movie. The death of the father is definitely not framed as tragic or sad, however.
super farfetched, but in one scene a girl scribbles some of the faces off of her drawings. also in one scene, her crayon is snapped in half, but she doesnt really seem that bothered
as someone with severe emetophobia, this film is completely safe! (both in terms of the act itself & in mentions, there is nothing!) to follow up the comment that mentions coughing- it doesn’t sound like the kind of cough that leads to anything more, it’s just a dry cough
There is a brief threat of a main character being incarcerated and people being arrested is talked about multiple times, but no one is shown in jail or goes to jail
I'm not sure if it counts, but Mike forces himself to have dreams about a childhood trauma to remember it more clearly, which can be seen as a form of self-harm (albeit not physical harm)
Mike, who has PTSD, beats up a man because he mistakenly assumed that he was trying to kidnap a child. Nothing similar happens after that, though.
Maybe William Afton too, but that's arguable.
A young character screams at another, saying "i hate you," then storms off to her room, proceeding to scribble out family drawings containing said character being yelled at.
General panting and heavy breathing. Nature noises such as bird chirps are reoccurring but short. One scene has a girl humming, and another has her eating crispy food, both are fairly short. There's only one sniffle despite a few crying/teary eyed scenes.
A character’s parent is said to have “not been able to take it anymore,” but it’s unclear whether this means the parent left or if the parent committed suicide. No other mentions of suicide are present.
Mike has mental health issues and trauma stemming from his younger brother getting kidnapped when he was a child. At the beginning, he beats up an innocent man because he mistakenly assumed that he was trying to kidnap a child and he has recurring dreams/nightmares (somewhat self-inflicted) about the incident.
there is some audio of children crying representing the ghost children, but they are very brief and other sounds like laughing and whispering cover it up so it isn't isolated.
There is quite a lot of screaming. Most scenes that show people being chased or attacked have screaming in fear. A young girl also screams in anger at her brother.
Sort of - Abby, Mike’s younger sister, is claimed to be “mentally ill” because she doesn’t interact with other kids her age, and speaks to what are assumed to be imaginary friends.
There is a child who is black who is confirmed to have been killed, but his death took place way before the events of the film and taking into a account game lore, he was not the first to die.