{"slug":"five-nights-at-freddys","type":"movie","title":"Five Nights at Freddy's","year":2023,"releaseDate":null,"franchise":null,"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Thriller"],"creators":["Emma Tammi"],"url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys","hook":"The pizzeria hides 20 game-faithful details, a YouTuber Employee of the Month wall, and a voice that spells 'come find me' after the credits.","intro":"Scott Cawthon co-wrote the screenplay for *Five Nights at Freddy's*, and it shows: Emma Tammi's Blumhouse adaptation treats its source games less like IP to be mined and more like a scavenger hunt to be honored. The animatronics were built practically by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, the security office got its **'Celebrate!' poster**, and even the hero's name — Mike Schmidt — is lifted straight off the paycheck the first game hands you at 6:00 AM.\n\nWhat makes this movie's easter egg game unusual is who the eggs are for. Alongside the expected nods to Foxy's hallway sprint and Golden Freddy's *'it's me'*, the film canonizes the **fan community itself**: MatPat waits tables and drops his catchphrase, CoryxKenshin drives the cab, and five FNAF YouTubers grin down from the pizzeria's Employee of the Month wall like victims-in-waiting. The crew even hid a nicknamed endoskeleton — *Tina* — in shots throughout the film.\n\nTammi has said her team planted references so that 'if you catch it, you catch it; if you know, you know' — and some, like a distorted voice spelling out a message at the very end of the credits, took fans multiple viewings to decode. Here's everything documented so far, in roughly the order the movie serves it up.","identifiers":{"tmdbId":507089,"tmdbUrl":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/507089","imdbId":"tt4589218","imdbUrl":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4589218/"},"counts":{"eggs":20,"confirmed":3,"community":17,"theory":0,"sources":19},"postCredits":{"status":"yes","verdict":"Yes — Five Nights at Freddy's has 1 post-credit scene.","scenes":1,"description":"One mid-credits scene: CoryxKenshin's cab driver flips his light to off-duty and dozes off, someone climbs in, and he turns to find Balloon Boy sitting motionless in the passenger seat — cue one last scream. Then, at the very end of the credits, a distorted voice spells out 'C-O-M-E-F-I-N-D-M-E,' a FNAF 2-style audio cipher teasing where a sequel might go. Worth sitting all the way through.","detail":"Yes — one scene, and it lands mid-credits rather than at the very back, so you only need to sit through the first block of names to catch it. Then there is a second reason to stay all the way out, and it is audio rather than picture.\n\nThe mid-credits beat picks up a character the film has already used as a punchline: the cab driver played by YouTuber **CoryxKenshin**, who ferried Abby to the pizzeria earlier. He is parked outside, light flipped to off-duty, dozing, when knocking starts on the glass. He waves the fare away. The knocking continues. He turns around to find that something has already let itself into the back seat — the small striped animatronic **Balloon Boy**, motionless, staring straight at him. One jump scare, cut, back to the credits. The same figure has been in the movie all along, springing out of a locker in the security office in a gag most first-time viewers read as set dressing.\n\nThen the crawl runs out and a distorted, pitch-shifted voice spells a message one letter at a time: **C-O-M-E F-I-N-D M-E**. It is deliberately built to sound like the garbled phone audio from *Five Nights at Freddy's 2*, and the fan reading — that it is William Afton calling from inside the Springtrap suit he is trapped in as the film ends — is the one the sequel effectively endorsed.\n\nBoth threads paid off. Balloon Boy returned as an antagonist in *Five Nights at Freddy's 2* on December 5, 2025, and that film's own mid-credits scene found the Springtrap suit under a plastic sheet in the abandoned restaurant with one eye flickering back to life.","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys/post-credits"},"eggs":[{"id":"eight-bit-opening-credits-purple-guy","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-eight-bit-opening-credits-purple-guy","title":"An 8-Bit Opening Straight Out of the Death Minigames","description":"The title sequence is rendered as chunky pixel art deliberately styled after the lore-heavy 8-bit minigames from the later FNAF games — the retro vignettes that play between (or after) nights in FNAF 2 through 4. It also hides the film's biggest tell in plain sight: William Afton is shown tinted purple as he climbs into the Spring Bonnie suit, matching his infamous 'Purple Guy' sprite from the games, and Matthew Lillard's cast credit is the only name rendered in purple. The movie announces its villain before a single scene plays — if you know what the color means.","scene":"Opening title sequence, before the first live-action scene","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — All 15 Video Game References","url":"https://screenrant.com/five-nights-at-freddys-movie-easter-eggs-references/"},{"label":"CinemaBlend — 12 Details And Easter Eggs I Noticed Rewatching On Peacock","url":"https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys-details-easter-eggs-i-noticed-rewatching-peacock"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"rabbits-foot-on-raglans-desk","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-rabbits-foot-on-raglans-desk","title":"The Rabbit's Foot on Steve Raglan's Desk","description":"When Mike meets his career counselor Steve Raglan (Matthew Lillard), a rabbit's-foot keychain sits on the desk between them. It plays as set-dressing clutter on a first watch — and as a confession on a second. Raglan is William Afton, the man who committed his murders inside the yellow Spring Bonnie rabbit suit, and the film puts a literal lucky rabbit's foot within arm's reach of him during his most mundane scene. CinemaBlend flagged it as one of the film's best-hidden foreshadowing props on rewatch.","scene":"Raglan's career counseling office, early in the film","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"CinemaBlend — 12 Details And Easter Eggs I Noticed Rewatching On Peacock","url":"https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys-details-easter-eggs-i-noticed-rewatching-peacock"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"mikes-dream-theory-paperback","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-mikes-dream-theory-paperback","title":"Mike's 'Dream Theory' Paperback","description":"The lucid-dreaming self-help book Mike studies is literally titled *Dream Theory* — a wink at one of the most famous fan hypotheses in FNAF history, the Game Theory-popularized idea that the events of FNAF 4 play out inside a dying child's dream. The movie goes a step further than a nod: dream-walking becomes an actual plot mechanic, as Mike deliberately re-enters the dream of his brother Garrett's abduction to hunt for clues. A fan theory the games never confirmed gets promoted to movie canon logic.","scene":"Mike's bedside reading at home, referenced throughout his dream sequences","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","meta"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Five Nights at Freddy's Easter Eggs","url":"https://collider.com/five-nights-at-freddys-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — All 15 Video Game References","url":"https://screenrant.com/five-nights-at-freddys-movie-easter-eggs-references/"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"surviving-until-six-am","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-surviving-until-six-am","title":"The Shift Ends at 6:00 AM — Just Like Every Night in the Games","description":"Mike's security shift runs midnight to 6:00 AM, and the film leans on clocks rolling over to 6:00 as its safe-at-dawn beat. That's the win condition of the entire game series: in FNAF 1 through 4, surviving until the clock strikes 6 AM (marked by a cheer and chimes) is the only way to beat a night. The movie never explains why the animatronics stand down at dawn — it doesn't need to, because the games trained an entire generation to exhale at that exact number.","scene":"Throughout Mike's night shifts; watch the office clock and his alarm","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","callback"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — All 15 Video Game References","url":"https://screenrant.com/five-nights-at-freddys-movie-easter-eggs-references/"},{"label":"Collider — Five Nights at Freddy's Easter Eggs","url":"https://collider.com/five-nights-at-freddys-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"celebrate-poster-in-the-office","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-celebrate-poster-in-the-office","title":"The 'Celebrate!' 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The movie recreating the office wall art this faithfully is exactly the kind of production-design detail that made the set feel playable.","scene":"Security office of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, visible during Mike's shifts","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","callback"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"CBR — 10 Awesome Easter Eggs In The Live-Action Movie","url":"https://www.cbr.com/five-nights-at-freddys-movie-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"youtuber-employee-of-the-month-wall","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-youtuber-employee-of-the-month-wall","title":"Five FNAF YouTubers on the Employee of the Month Wall","description":"The pizzeria's Employee of the Month board is a hall of fame for the creators who kept FNAF alive on YouTube: Razzbowski (January), Bazamalam (March), FusionZGamer (June), Dawko (July), and 8-Bit Ryan (December) all appear as framed staff photos — implicitly, employees who met grisly ends before the movie begins. Dawko has interviewed Scott Cawthon himself; Baz visited the set and posed with the Chica animatronic. Markiplier, the YouTuber most associated with the series, was meant to have a proper cameo but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with his own film Iron Lung.","scene":"Wall of framed staff photos inside Freddy Fazbear's Pizza — pause when Mike walks the halls","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","meta"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"TheGamer — Every YouTuber Cameo In The FNAF Movie","url":"https://www.thegamer.com/five-nights-at-freddys-movie-all-youtuber-cameos/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — Every Five Nights At Freddy's Cameo","url":"https://screenrant.com/five-nights-at-freddys-movie-cameos/"},{"label":"Wikipedia — Five Nights at Freddy's (film)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Nights_at_Freddy's_(film)"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"balloon-boy-keeps-appearing","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-balloon-boy-keeps-appearing","title":"Balloon Boy Will Not Leave Anyone Alone","description":"The grinning, immobile Balloon Boy figure — the flashlight-stealing pest introduced in FNAF 2 — stages guerrilla jump scares all over the film. He's waiting inside Mike's locker in the security room, he materializes to terrify one of Aunt Jane's goons hiding from Bonnie during the break-in, and he gets the movie's literal last laugh in the credits scene. True to the games, he never visibly moves; he's simply somewhere he shouldn't be every time someone turns around. His 'Hi!' energy translating to film purely through placement is a great adaptation touch.","scene":"Mike's locker in the security room; the storage areas during the break-in","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","callback"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"CBR — 10 Awesome Easter Eggs In The Live-Action Movie","url":"https://www.cbr.com/five-nights-at-freddys-movie-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Collider — Five Nights at Freddy's Easter Eggs","url":"https://collider.com/five-nights-at-freddys-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"its-me-in-the-mirror-dust","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-its-me-in-the-mirror-dust","title":"'It's Me' Traced in the Mirror Dust","description":"When Golden Freddy's presence hits the pizzeria, the film recreates the full FNAF 1 hallucination package: lights spark, the cameras cut out, and the words 'it's me' appear finger-traced in the dust of the office mirror. In the original game, Golden Freddy's arrival flashes 'IT'S ME' across the screen while your tech goes haywire — a slumped, endoskeleton-less suit that crashes the game if you stare too long. The movie converting a screen-glitch scare into practical set dressing is one of its smartest translations.","scene":"The security office mirror, as the lights flicker and cameras fail","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"CBR — Five Nights at Freddy's Easter Eggs, Explained","url":"https://www.cbr.com/five-nights-at-freddys-easter-eggs-explained/"},{"label":"Game Rant — 6 Easter Eggs You Missed","url":"https://gamerant.com/five-nights-at-freddys-best-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"sparkys-diner-hoax","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-sparkys-diner-hoax","title":"Sparky's Diner Resurrects a 2014 Fan Hoax","description":"The diner where characters meet is named Sparky's — after Sparky the Dog, an animatronic that never existed. In the earliest days of FNAF 1, a hoax spread claiming a hidden dog animatronic named Sparky could be found in the game's files; it was debunked, but the legend stuck around as community lore. The movie canonizing a fake easter egg as a real location is a deep-cut joke aimed squarely at day-one fans, and Collider also spotted a Sparky-style suit tucked into the film's parts-and-service area for good measure.","scene":"Sparky's Diner — check the signage","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — All 15 Video Game References","url":"https://screenrant.com/five-nights-at-freddys-movie-easter-eggs-references/"},{"label":"Collider — Five Nights at Freddy's Easter Eggs","url":"https://collider.com/five-nights-at-freddys-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"matpat-serves-a-theory","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-matpat-serves-a-theory","title":"MatPat Takes Your Order: 'That's Just a Theory'","description":"The waiter at Sparky's Diner is Matthew 'MatPat' Patrick, the Game Theory host whose FNAF lore videos did as much as anyone to turn the games into a decade-long mystery box. He gets an actual line, and it's the one fans demanded: his signature sign-off, 'that's just a theory.' It's a fitting piece of casting in a movie whose plot literally runs on the Dream Theory his channel popularized — the film tips its hat to the theorist while adapting his theory.","scene":"Sparky's Diner — the waiter taking the order","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","meta"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — Every Five Nights At Freddy's Cameo","url":"https://screenrant.com/five-nights-at-freddys-movie-cameos/"},{"label":"IMDb News — FNAF Movie: MatPat's Special Cameo Explained","url":"https://www.imdb.com/news/ni64300084/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"chicas-magic-rainbow-ice-cream","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-chicas-magic-rainbow-ice-cream","title":"Chica's Magic Rainbow Sells Ice Cream Now","description":"The mascot of the ice cream parlor where Mike takes Abby is Chica's Magic Rainbow — the psychotically chipper, secretly foul-tempered final boss of FNaF World's Update 2, the franchise's cutesy RPG spin-off. It's arguably the single deepest game cut in the movie, pulled from the least-played title in the series. CinemaBlend also caught the menu advertising a 'Rainbow Explosion' flavor, a nod to how that boss fight ends: the Rainbow detonating. A kids' dessert brand built on a boss that screams obscenities at you is peak FNAF humor.","scene":"The ice cream parlor Mike and Abby visit — look at the mascot signage and menu","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","visual"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — All 15 Video Game References","url":"https://screenrant.com/five-nights-at-freddys-movie-easter-eggs-references/"},{"label":"CinemaBlend — 12 Details And Easter Eggs I Noticed Rewatching On Peacock","url":"https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys-details-easter-eggs-i-noticed-rewatching-peacock"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"carls-midnight-motorist-shirt","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-carls-midnight-motorist-shirt","title":"Carl's Midnight Motorist T-Shirt","description":"Carl, one of Aunt Jane's hired vandals, breaks into the pizzeria wearing a T-shirt printed with art from Midnight Motorist — the cryptic purple-car minigame hidden in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator (FNAF 6), and still one of the great unsolved mysteries of the franchise's lore, widely theorized to depict the Afton household. SlashFilm spotted the shirt all the way back in the trailer. Fitting that the guy wearing the fandom's biggest unanswered question gets ambushed by Mr. Cupcake in a fridge.","scene":"The break-in sequence — Carl's T-shirt as the vandals trash the pizzeria","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"SlashFilm — The FNAF Trailer Easter Egg You Probably Missed","url":"https://www.slashfilm.com/1389543/five-nights-at-freddys-trailer-easter-egg/"},{"label":"FNAF Insider — Every Easter Egg and Cameo in the FNAF Movie","url":"https://fnafinsider.com/movie/every-easter-egg-in-the-five-nights-at-freddys-movie/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"foxy-hallway-sprint","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-foxy-hallway-sprint","title":"Foxy's Hallway Sprint, Recreated Beat for Beat","description":"Foxy gets his signature move: a full-speed charge down a hallway, hook raised, ending in a lunge with his ear-splitting screech. That's a one-to-one recreation of the most feared mechanic in FNAF 1 — neglect the Pirate Cove camera and Foxy bolts from behind his curtain, sprinting down the west hall toward your office in a few frames of pure panic. It's the moment in the movie engineered to trigger muscle memory in anyone who ever slammed that left door button a half-second too late.","scene":"The attack on the intruders — Foxy charging down the corridor","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback","visual"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — All 15 Video Game References","url":"https://screenrant.com/five-nights-at-freddys-movie-easter-eggs-references/"}],"motifs":["restaged-famous-shot"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"maxs-death-restages-the-bite","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-maxs-death-restages-the-bite","title":"Max's Death Restages the Infamous Bite","description":"Babysitter Max leans in for a closer look at a dormant Freddy, a child's hand shoots out from inside the animatronic's mouth, pulls her in, and Freddy bites her clean in half at the waist. It's the film's homage to the franchise's most-argued-about lore events: the Bite of '83 (seen in FNAF 4) and the fabled Bite of '87 that Phone Guy mentions in the first game, which fans spent years attributing to different animatronics. The ghost child luring her in first makes it a lore statement, not just a kill.","scene":"The break-in sequence — Max alone with the Freddy animatronic","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","callback"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — All 15 Video Game References","url":"https://screenrant.com/five-nights-at-freddys-movie-easter-eggs-references/"},{"label":"Dexerto — Who dies in Five Nights at Freddy's?","url":"https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/who-dies-in-five-nights-at-freddys-movie-2351800/"}],"motifs":["restaged-famous-shot"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"tina-the-hidden-endoskeleton","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-tina-the-hidden-endoskeleton","title":"Tina, the Crew's Pet Endoskeleton, Hides in Multiple Shots","description":"The production crew built a bare animatronic endoskeleton, nicknamed her 'Tina,' and tucked her into the background of several shots across the film — an in-house hide-and-seek game documented on the FNAF film wiki's trivia page. Endoskeletons are foundational FNAF imagery: the games' rule that animatronics see endoskeleton-less humans as 'naked endos' who must be stuffed into suits is the series' original explanation for why the night guard keeps dying. Frame-hunters are still cataloging every Tina sighting.","scene":"Background of multiple pizzeria shots — parts-and-service areas are prime hunting ground","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","trivia"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"FNAF Film Wiki — Five Nights at Freddy's / Trivia","url":"https://fnaffilm.fandom.com/wiki/Five_Nights_at_Freddy's/Trivia"}],"motifs":["recurring-hidden-signature"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"tammis-favorite-flashlight-egg","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-tammis-favorite-flashlight-egg","title":"Emma Tammi's Favorite Egg Involves a Flashlight","description":"Director Emma Tammi went on record before release saying her favorite hidden easter egg lands roughly two-thirds of the way through the film and 'involves a flashlight' — and she deliberately declined to spell it out, describing her whole approach as: if you didn't know the reference, you wouldn't realize an egg was there at all. Flashlights are sacred FNAF hardware (your only defense in FNAF 4, Balloon Boy's favorite thing to steal in FNAF 2), so fans have been frame-hunting that stretch of the movie ever since. Consider this a director-issued treasure map.","scene":"Roughly two-thirds into the film, per the director — flashlight in hand","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["trivia","meta"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ComingSoon — Director Emma Tammi on Josh Hutcherson and Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/1376832-five-nights-at-freddys-interview-director-emma-tammi-on-josh-hutcherson-and-easter-eggs"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"ghostface-knife-wipe","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-ghostface-knife-wipe","title":"A Ghostface Knife Wipe from Stu Macher Himself","description":"During the final confrontation, Matthew Lillard's William Afton wipes blood from his blade with two fingers — the exact gesture Ghostface performs in Scream (1996), where Lillard played killer Stu Macher. It's the one big easter egg in the movie that points outside the FNAF universe, a wink at the actor's horror legacy 27 years apart. CBR flagged it as a deliberate homage, and Lillard playing another mask-wearing murderer makes the callback land twice as hard.","scene":"The final showdown — watch Afton's knife hand","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","meta"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"CBR — 10 Awesome Easter Eggs In The Live-Action Movie","url":"https://www.cbr.com/five-nights-at-freddys-movie-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":["casting-in-joke","restaged-famous-shot"],"referencesSlug":"scream","referencesWork":null},{"id":"i-always-come-back-springlocks","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-i-always-come-back-springlocks","title":"'I Always Come Back' — Springtrap Is Born","description":"When the animatronics finally turn on their maker, Mr. Cupcake's attack triggers the springlock mechanism inside Afton's Spring Bonnie suit — the same gruesome failure that creates Springtrap in FNAF 3's lore, where Afton's corpse rots inside the suit for decades. As the locks impale him, Lillard delivers the line 'I always come back,' quoting Afton word-for-word from Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator. One scene, two game callbacks, and an open door: the film ends with Afton sealed in the suit, not dead — exactly how Springtrap stories start.","scene":"The finale in the pizzeria's back room, as the springlocks snap shut","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 'I Always Come Back' Line Explained","url":"https://screenrant.com/five-nights-at-freddys-william-afton-always-come-back-future/"},{"label":"Collider — Five Nights at Freddy's Easter Eggs","url":"https://collider.com/five-nights-at-freddys-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":["quoted-line-homage"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"living-tombstone-credits-anthem","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-living-tombstone-credits-anthem","title":"The Living Tombstone's Fan Anthem Plays the Credits Out","description":"The end credits roll to a remastered version of 'Five Nights at Freddy's' by The Living Tombstone — the 2014 fan-made song that became the franchise's unofficial anthem and the channel's most-viewed video, with hundreds of millions of plays. Its inclusion wasn't a last-minute needle drop: Scott Cawthon had wanted the song in a FNAF film since the project's earliest conception around 2016. The Living Tombstone marked the premiere by releasing a 'Goth Remix' the same day, and the remaster's use in the film effectively made a fan song canon.","scene":"End credits — the main credits song","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["music","meta"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"SlashFilm — Does FNAF Feature Music From The Living Tombstone?","url":"https://www.slashfilm.com/1430576/five-nights-at-freddys-music-the-living-tombstone/"},{"label":"Wikipedia — Five Nights at Freddy's (song)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Nights_at_Freddy's_(song)"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"come-find-me-credits-voice","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys#egg-come-find-me-credits-voice","title":"A Distorted Voice Spells Out 'Come Find Me'","description":"Stay through every last credit and a garbled, distorted voice reads out letters one at a time: C-O-M-E-F-I-N-D-M-E — 'come find me.' The delivery mimics the eerie letter-by-letter voice cues from FNAF 2's death minigames, where a distorted voice spells out words as pixel-art lore plays. Nerdist notes it's so quiet that theater audiences barely caught it. Whether it's Garrett calling to Mike or Afton taunting from inside the suit, it doubles as the film's quietest sequel hook.","scene":"The very end of the credits — audio only, easy to miss","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["music","foreshadowing","meta"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Nerdist — What Do the FNAF Post-Credits Letters Spell and Mean?","url":"https://nerdist.com/article/what-do-the-five-nights-at-freddys-post-credits-letters-spell-and-mean/"}],"motifs":["sequel-tease"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null}],"faq":[{"question":"How many easter eggs are in Five Nights at Freddy's?","answer":"We catalog 20 documented easter eggs in the 2023 film, spanning game references (the 'Celebrate!' poster, Foxy's hallway sprint, 'it's me' on the mirror), deep cuts like Chica's Magic Rainbow and the Midnight Motorist shirt, and community tributes including MatPat's cameo and five YouTubers on the Employee of the Month wall. ScreenRant alone counts 15 direct video game references, and director Emma Tammi says at least one flashlight-related egg is still hiding in plain sight."},{"question":"Does Five Nights at Freddy's have a post-credits scene?","answer":"Yes — one short mid-credits scene. CoryxKenshin's cab driver settles in for a nap, hears someone enter his taxi, and turns to find Balloon Boy in the passenger seat for a final jump scare. There's also an audio-only egg at the very end of the credits: a distorted voice spelling out 'come find me,' letter by letter, in the style of FNAF 2's death minigames."},{"question":"Is MatPat in the Five Nights at Freddy's movie?","answer":"Yes. MatPat, host of Game Theory and the internet's foremost FNAF lore theorist, plays the waiter at Sparky's Diner and delivers his famous catchphrase, 'that's just a theory.' The nod runs deeper than the line: the film's plot leans on the Dream Theory, a fan hypothesis his channel popularized, and Mike even reads a book literally titled Dream Theory."},{"question":"Which YouTubers appear in the Five Nights at Freddy's movie?","answer":"Seven in total. MatPat (diner waiter) and CoryxKenshin (cab driver, who returns in the mid-credits scene) get speaking roles, while Razzbowski, Bazamalam, FusionZGamer, Dawko, and 8-Bit Ryan appear as framed photos on the pizzeria's Employee of the Month wall. Markiplier was set for a cameo too, but scheduling conflicts with his film Iron Lung forced him to drop out."},{"question":"What do the letters at the end of the Five Nights at Freddy's credits spell?","answer":"A distorted voice at the very end of the credits spells out C-O-M-E-F-I-N-D-M-E — 'come find me.' The letter-by-letter delivery mirrors the audio cues from FNAF 2's death minigames. Fans read it as either Mike's brother Garrett reaching out or William Afton taunting from inside the Spring Bonnie suit, and it doubles as a tease for the sequel."}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-08","updatedAt":"2026-08-05","source":{"name":"The Things You Missed","page":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/five-nights-at-freddys","api":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/api/titles/five-nights-at-freddys","methodology":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/about"}}