You could be forgiven for not expecting much out of a movie riding the coattails of "Five Nights at Freddy's" and produced by the same company behind the recent "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey". And while "Freddy's Fridays" is plagued by precisely the kind of soap opera level acting and sloppy CGI work you might expect from a derivative low-budget horror, it's not without its own entertainment factor. It helps that it at least has more story than "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey", said story being that of homicide detective Lila Jones' (Danielle Scott) investigation of a series of sex worker killings she believes to be the work of creepy Todd Fischer (Jase River), who we learn at the start of the movie is working a kind of contract for a band of demonic slashers led by the floppy-eared Freddy. Since there's really no mystery, the movie depends on how competent Lila and those around her are when it comes to stopping Freddy and company. Fortunately for us, they're pretty bad at this kind of thing and make enough mistakes to keep the body count rising as the movie marches towards an admittedly half-baked conclusion pitting Lila against her bloodthirsty foes. I kind of liked the killer designs here, even if the "demons" are really just guys in costumes, and it's cool that they take turns dispatching their various victims, so you get some sense of their individual personalities. If only the rest of the performances weren't so boringly bad and the movie actually had a proper finale, this might have even been a good bad movie. As is, while it's still more up my alley than "Five Nights at Freddy's", it's not a successful mockbuster.
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