{"id":257705,"date":"2023-10-31T06:33:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T10:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=312900"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:48:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:48:56","slug":"five-nights-at-freddys-viral-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys-viral-phenomenon\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s becomes a viral phenomenon almost unprecedented in its debut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s is a video game franchise<\/strong> that has been terrifying various audiences for years with its possessed animatronics. It has been clear for a while now that it has become more than just a video game; it has become an icon of pop culture in recent years. However, it was with the movie adaptation of the IP that this trend was confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we saw a few weeks ago, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/s\/five-nights-at-freddys-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s<\/a> has become a horror film set<\/strong> to terrify the world this Halloween. But what few expected was that it would become such a viral success, achieving almost unprecedented records in the genre. A phenomenon that very few movies can reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed-Youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Five Nights At Freddy&#039;s | Official Teaser\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f-zqS2CiZqw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s is no longer just for gamers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Despite the not-so-positive reviews<\/strong>, Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s movie starring Josh Hutcherson has closed its first weekend in the United States with a staggering number: 78 million dollars. This marks <strong>the best opening for a horror movie in 2023<\/strong>, surpassing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/nun-against-nun-halloween\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">The Nun 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, it has achieved other records: it is the best debut for a Blumhouse studio production and the best debut for a PG-13 rated horror movie, surpassing the 68.1 million of The Mummy Returns in 2001. Moreover, FNAF has secured <strong>the fifth-best October opening in the United States<\/strong>, behind Joker in 2019 (96.2 million), Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour this year (92.8 million), Venom: Let There Be Carnage in 2021 (90 million), and Venom in 2018 (80.2 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/five-nights-at-freddys-pelicula-1024x576-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-257711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/five-nights-at-freddys-pelicula-1024x576-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/five-nights-at-freddys-pelicula-1024x576-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/five-nights-at-freddys-pelicula-1024x576-1-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/five-nights-at-freddys-pelicula-1024x576-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/five-nights-at-freddys-pelicula-1024x576-1-664x374.jpg 664w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/five-nights-at-freddys-pelicula-1024x576-1-238x134.jpg 238w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/five-nights-at-freddys-pelicula-1024x576-1-436x246.jpg 436w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/five-nights-at-freddys-pelicula-1024x576-1-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/five-nights-at-freddys-pelicula-1024x576-1-304x170.jpg 304w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/five-nights-at-freddys-pelicula-1024x576-1-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/five-nights-at-freddys-pelicula-1024x576-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that it&#8217;s a phenomenon to be reckoned with, and in the rest of the world, it has already reached <strong>130 million dollars<\/strong>. Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s is no longer just for gamers, and all signs point to an upcoming sequel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s is a video game franchise that has been terrifying various audiences for years with its possessed animatronics. It has been clear for a while now that it has become more than just a video game; it has become an icon of pop culture in recent years. However, it was with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys-viral-phenomenon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s becomes a viral phenomenon almost unprecedented in its debut&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9257,"featured_media":257708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":3},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-257705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316823,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257705\/revisions\/316823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257705"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=257705"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=257705"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=257705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}