| Director | Emma Tammi |
|---|---|
| Genre | horror film, mystery film |
| Runtime | 109 min |
| Country | United States |
| Budget | $25 million |
| Box office | $297.2 million |
In 2000, mall security guard Mike Schmidt is fired for assaulting a father whom he had mistaken for a kidnapper. His career counselor, Steve Raglan, offers him a job as a night guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, a once-successful pizzeria. Mike accepts after social services threaten to take custody of his younger sister, Abby, and pass her to their estranged aunt, Jane, who desires the monthly custody payments.
During his first night, Mike falls asleep and has a nightmare about the kidnapping of his younger brother, Garrett. Within the nightmare, he meets five children who also witnessed the event. The next day, Jane hires a gang of vandals, including Abby's babysitter, Max, to vandalize the pizzeria and get Mike fired, hastening her custody of Abby. Mike meets police officer Vanessa Shelly, who explains that the building closed during the 1980s after several children went missing there. Once Mike's shift ends and he leaves, the vandals break in, but the pizzeria's animatronic mascots—Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy and Mr. Cupcake—kill the entire group.
On his third night, Mike brings Abby to work when Max fails to show. The animatronics befriend her and Mike discovers that they are possessed by the spirits of the missing children, who consistently mention a "yellow rabbit". Vanessa warns Mike not to touch the 'springlock' suits, which contain internal gears with a faulty design that can impale the wearer. On the fourth night, Abby is accidentally injured while bonding with the animatronics. The next day, Mike reluctantly allows Jane to babysit Abby while he goes back to Freddy’s with sleeping pills, hoping to induce more dreams to learn what happened to Garrett. In the dream, the children offer for Mike to stay with Garrett forever in exchange for Abby. Mike initially accepts, but when he changes his mind, he is attacked and injured by Foxy. A disused Freddy animatronic incapacitates Jane and brings Abby back to the pizzeria.
Vanessa reveals that she is the daughter of William Afton, the serial killer who kidnapped and murdered Garrett and the other children, hiding their corpses in the animatronics, and allowing their souls to be under his control. Realizing the animatronics plan to murder Abby and have her join them in the afterlife, Mike rushes to the pizzeria and thwarts the animatronics, but Afton arrives in the yellow rabbit suit and reactivates them. He then reveals himself to be Raglan and stabs Vanessa. Reminded of the animatronics' fondness of drawings, Abby draws a picture of Afton's actions to free them from his influence. Now knowing the truth, the animatronics turn on Afton, sabotaging his suit's springlock mechanisms and wounding him before he is dragged away.
Mike, Abby and Vanessa flee as the building collapses. Vanessa falls into a coma and is hospitalized, while Mike and Abby reconcile. At the pizzeria, the leader of the children observes the dying Afton before leaving him to his fate.