Five Nights at Freddy's director says one of the animatronics caught fire during filming

In the video above, Five Nights at Freddy’s Director Emma Tammi explains how useful having real animatronics on the set of Five Nights at Freddy’s was for giving her cast some nightmare fuel… especially after one of them spontaneously combusted during filming.

This Halloween, Freddy and the gang are dying to meet you. Five Nights At Freddy’s - is in theaters and streaming on Peacock October 27th, 2023. Get a good look at how the film is coming along with four new commercials in the video above.

The terrifying horror game phenomenon becomes a blood-chilling cinematic event, as Blumhouse— the producer of M3GAN, The Black Phone and The Invisible Man— brings Five Nights at Freddy’s to the big screen. The film follows a troubled security guard as he begins working at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy’s won’t be so easy to make it through.