It’s taken years to get here, but the “Five Nights at Freddy’s” movie we’ve all anticipated is finally here, from Blumhouse Pictures and director Emma Tammi. The film is set at an abandoned family entertainment center and stars Josh Hutcherson as Mike Schmidt, a security guard coping with past traumas while accepting a graveyard shift at the FEC, where he discovers that the facility’s animatronic creatures come to life and kill anyone who is on the grounds after midnight.

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Can you survive five nights? Say what you will about the idea of a terrifying horror game phenomenon turned into a blood-chilling cinematic event; eye-roll all you want. And we might agree with you normally. But the adaptation of the creepy video game “Five Nights At Freddy’s” comes from Blumhouse— the production company and producers of “M3GAN,” “The Black Phone” “The Invisible Man” and David Gordon Green’s recent “Halloween” trilogy.

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To say the “Five Nights at Freddy’s” video game franchise is a hit would be a great understatement. Over the course of nine video games, the franchise has grown to become one of the biggest in the industry and has accumulated a ton of fans who go out and buy all the toys, tie-in novels, and various other merchandise. It was only a matter of time before a film was made, and that’s exactly what Blumhouse is doing. 

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As seen in the teaser for “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” Blumhouse has brought the popular video game franchise to life in a new horror film.

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With only one narrative feature under her belt, 2018’s thriller, “The Wind,” filmmaker Emma Tammi has already proven herself to be one of the best up-and-coming directors working right now. Apparently, we’re not the only people to notice this, as Blumhouse has snatched her up to film a feature-length entry in the studio’s Hulu horror anthology series, “Into the Dark,” titled “Delivered.”

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As seen in the new trailer for “Delivered,” Tammi’s film follows the story of a young couple that is attending a class for expecting parents.

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A prairie horizon is a paradox. Appreciate its vastness in the right light and it feels like anything’s possible. Lose a little of that light, feel the temperature drop five degrees, and nothing is.

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The landscapes of Emma Tammi’s “The Wind” (out now from IFC Films) do a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to the film’s existential terror.

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Film scores are wonderful things. If you’re a fan of listening to scores as works on their own (as many film fans are known to do), divorced of the imagery, the music is still able to evoke emotion and excitement. And in the case of composer Ben Lovett’s score for “The Wind,” the music alone is enough to scare the crap out of you, without the need to see director Emma Tammi’s newest film.

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Filmmaker Emma Tammi has gone from documentary films to jumping headfirst into psychological horror with her latest film “The Wind.” And after it’s impressive debut at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Tammi’s terrifying tale of isolation in the 19th-century American frontier will finally be available for film fans to enjoy worldwide.

In the new trailer for the film, the premise of “The Wind” is made clear.

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“The Wind” begins with a group of Old West settlers rocked by a traumatic event that went down moments before. Their long, grim faces, the film’s chilly color palette, and a dead baby tell viewers everything they need to know about this brutal and unforgiving world. Directed by Emma Tammi, “The Wind” presents a bleak and atmospheric slow-burn horror story with a western flavor. Fans of nerve-racking movies “The Babadook” and “The Witch” are most likely to fall under this picture’s cold spell.

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If you are into the horror/thriller film genre, do we have a treat for you. In a similar folk-horror style that reminds us of “The Witch,” Emma Tammi brings us “The Wind;” a film, that based on the trailer, is going to keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.

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From the trailer, the bone-chilling tone of dread and fear is evident, and you can feel it.

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