Gamers familiar with the lore may understand everything in Five Nights at Freddy's 2. But as a moviegoer with no connection to the games, I was utterly baffled.

It took nearly 10 years for the “Five Nights at Freddy’s” video game series to develop a film adaptation. Just two years later, Universal Studios released the sequel movie, “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.”

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2," now playing in theaters. Freddy Fazbear and his friends have done it again. The bloodthirsty animatronics beckoned enough franchise fans to theaters to make “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” a box office hit this weekend.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2" builds on the first film's chaotic foundation with even more confusion, says our reviewer.

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Freddy’s back for more — money. “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” was the king of the box office on its opener Friday. The supernatural horror, a sequel to the 2023 original, raked in $29.810 million, according to The Numbers.