Jason Blum, the man behind horror production company, Blumhouse, has seen a solid run of success—from getting Jordan Peele’s Get Out and Us out the door to a host of franchises like the Purge, Paranormal Activity, and the Insidious flicks, has just seen another smash with the Ethan Hawke-starring The Black Phone based on the Joe Hill short story. So when he says to give something like Five Nights At Freddy’s a rest, maybe listen to the guy. Especially when he does it with a picture from Insidious 5.
The franchise, the second coming from James Wan and Leigh Whannell after their never-ending Saw series (and before Wan would go onto another horror mega-franchise with his Conjuring movies) was a nasty little story of possession, but of a different kind than normally seen—this one came from a demonic land parallel to this one filled with all kinds of nasty ghosts and demons that desire taking people over if they dare to wander away from their bodies while they dream.
Fans can just hold their horses on their desire to see the Five Nights At Freddy’s says the producer, standing with his arm around his buddy, the lead (and first time director) of the latest chapter in the Insidious franchise, Patrick Wilson. Wilson is returning as Josh Lambert (with Rose Byrne back as his wife, Renai, and Ty Simpkins returning as Dalton, their son).
The Five Nights At Freddy’s film, based on the smash-hit game released on Steam back in 2014 and featuring a slew of sequels to date, has fans clamoring for every bit of lore they can glean from the series, from deciding which monster is best to dissecting the lore to games created by fans of the premise means that they’ve been clamoring for every bit of news on the film that’s been up and down in something close to development hell since 2015, just a year after the original game released to such acclaim. The movie has taken a backburner to Blum promoting one of the other vast number of productions he’s got slated to come out in the next few years.
That said, Blum is asking fans to not let that get in the way of seeing things like the original Dalton family (now almost in as bad a shape as the Frelings from Poltergeist) return to be haunted by the ghosts and ghouls of the Further in the next Insidious film. In the meantime, fans hungry for animatronic mayhem involving children’s locations can take a spin with the Nic Cage madhouse, Willy’s Wonderland, which takes a similar premise and adds Nicolas Cage to the mix in all his Nicolas Cage-gloriousness. That will have to suffice until Five Nights At Freddy’s bows at the box office.