Despite a Mauling From Critics, Five Nights at Freddy's 2 Is a Smash Hit at the Box Office and on Course to Be One of the Biggest Horror Movies of 2025

Five Nights astatine Freddy's 2 has secured a container bureau triumph contempt a captious mauling.

In 2023, Blumhouse’s Five Nights astatine Freddy’s, which adapts the hugely fashionable video crippled bid by Scott Cawthon, became the highest-grossing fearfulness movie of the year. Now, 2 years later, Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 2 has earnt a immense $109 cardinal astatine the planetary container bureau during motorboat weekend. While that isn't arsenic large arsenic Five Nights astatine Freddy’s $160 cardinal container bureau debut, it's capable to instrumentality the fig 1 spot astatine the home container bureau with an awesome $63 cardinal haul.

The container bureau occurrence comes amid 1 of the biggest Rotten Tomatoes critic-audience people divides ever. On the reappraisal people aggregator, Five Nights astatine Freddy's 2 has conscionable 12% connected the Tomatometer from 84 reviews from critics, whereas it has 88% connected the Popcornmeter, which tracks idiosyncratic reappraisal sentiment. IGN’s Five Nights astatine Freddy's 2 reappraisal returned a 3/10. We said: “Five Nights astatine Freddy's 2 gives sequels, video crippled adaptations, and gateway fearfulness movies a atrocious name.”

But Universal Pictures said it expects continued container bureau momentum for the film, “fueled by beardown societal media buzz and word-of-mouth.”

Five Nights astatine Freddy's 2 secured a fig of home container bureau records, including becoming the second-largest fearfulness opening of 2025 down lone The Conjuring: Last Rites. With this debut, Blumhouse–Atomic Monster present holds 4 of the apical 10 biggest fearfulness openings of the twelvemonth (The Conjuring: Last Rites, Five Nights At Freddy’s 2, Black Phone 2, and The Monkey).

Domestically, it’s besides the highest opening play for a PG-13 fearfulness movie successful 2025, surpassing Predator: Badlands, and it had a record-breaking post-Thanksgiving opening, present the highest ever astatine the home container office, up of The Last Samurai. And finally, it’s the biggest December fearfulness opening domestically, topping Scream 2.

Scream prima Matthew Lillard, who plays William Afton, has already spoken astir his anticipation that Five Nights astatine Freddy's 3 gets made, and with this container bureau occurrence it present seems likely. “Our anticipation is that we get to bash 3 films. That’s ever been the plan. Everything is babelike connected however the movie does successful theaters,” Lillard said.

Lillard was precocious successful the headlines for responding to an insult from Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill manager Quentin Tarantino, saying "it f***ing sucks." With Five Nights astatine Freddy's 2 retired the door, he’s acceptable to reprise his relation arsenic Stuart "Stu" Macher successful Scream 7, and volition play a villain successful MCU Disney+ show, Daredevil: Born Again Season 2.

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