A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK, a movie came out called Willy’s Wonderland, about a drifter (Nic Cage) who is forced into deadly combat against a series of Chuck E. Cheese-style animatronics at an abandoned children’s pizza parlor. “When Nic Cage is on the screen it’s tolerably weird,” I wrote of that picture. “When literally any other character is doing anything it’s genuinely one of the four or five worst movies I’ve ever watched?”
I mention this because Five Nights at Freddy’s is about as good as Willy’s Wonderland but without the soothingly bizarre presence of Nicolas Cage.
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