Why is “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “violent content, terror and some language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes several scenes of animatronic characters killing and threatening people including children, several scenes of people having nightmares about violent encounters with animatronic characters, discussions of harming children, discussions of children longing for friendship, several arguments and some strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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The pizzeria of the original Five Nights at Freddy’s is in the spotlight once again, when survivors (Josh Hutcherson and Elizabeth Lail) of the mayhem from twenty years earlier continue to try to move on with their lives, as the town organizes a festival to celebrate its anniversary. Also with Piper Rubio, Matthew Lillard, Freddy Carter, Wayne Knight, Mckenna Grace, David Andrew Calvillo, Teo Briones, Audrey Lynn-Marie, Miriam Spumpkin and Han Soto. Directed by Emma Tammi. [Running Time: 1:44]

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 SEX/NUDITY 1

 – A man compliments a woman’s appearance while at a restaurant together and says to himself, “This is a date.” A preteen girl asks a man if he has kissed a woman yet and he denies it.
► A woman wears a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 VIOLENCE/GORE 5

 – A large animatronic character entices a young boy into the backroom of a restaurant/arcade, a young girl tries to get adults to help her find him and they are dismissive; the girl finds the boy lying on the ground, carries him out while being chased by the character holding a knife, she reaches a stage where she collapses with bloody knife wounds in her back and the floor of the stage opens to reveal a large marionette attached to cables being pulled up and holding the child.
► A young woman and two young men go to a pizzeria and film the area, they talk about a child being murdered there; one young man with a camera jumps when a man appears and speaks to them, a young man walks into a passage where there are several dolls with clown masks and falls into water where he is surrounded by many of the dolls that devour him like piranhas (we see blood fill the water as the young man yells); the young woman follows the sound of music coming from a room where a large box opens to reveal a large marionette that rises out of the box and we later see the woman with glowing eyes and her face resembles the face of the marionette; and a young man is picked up off the floor and held in the air by an animatronic character and we hear tearing and squishing sounds and we hear limbs hit the floor.
► A man in a darkened classroom hears noises in the hallway and investigates; he hears noises in another classroom and when he gets close to the door, an animatronic character on the other side breaks through the glass and pulls the man into the dark classroom where it lifts the man off the floor and squeezes his head (we hear a squish and see splatter) and drops him to the floor lifeless. A woman has a flashback to her youth and her father calling her; she says, “I’m not afraid of you. I don’t need you,” as the man with a kitchen knife walks toward her yelling; we see her as a young girl and she goes into a workroom and closes the door while as her adult self, she imagines shooting the man; he falls over a balcony to the floor below (we see blood pooling under him). An animatronic character places a sleeping young girl on her bed and the child wakes up when she hears noises and we see the animatronic character breaking open at the chest and a marionette character lunges out of the opening toward the child; we see the child later with glowing eyes and clown makeup on her face and she laughs maniacally. A man pulls the head off an animatronic character and throws it away; other animatronic characters surround him in an office and threaten him. An animatronic character carries a sharp implement and threatens a woman until a young girl intervenes and another animatronic character with a hook for a hand threatens a man.
► A woman swerves on a road when an animatronic character lands on her roof and breaks the window to grab her, the car runs off the road and then the woman speeds through a mailbox and slams on the brakes throwing the animatronic character through a plate glass window and into another animatronic character in a house. An animatronic character is grabbed from behind and stomped on the face by another animatronic character (sparks fly), another is torn in half (sparks fly), and another’s head is pulled off (sparks fly). An animatronic character holds a woman around the throat and off the floor; the woman gasps and chokes and the character threatens to harm her. Several animatronic characters surround a man, a woman and a preteen girl in a threatening manner. A preteen girl bicycles to an abandoned restaurant at night, she goes inside and something lunges toward her from the shadows and screeches. Several badly damaged animatronic characters boot up and begin to move. A cab driver is alarmed when he sees an animatronic character get into his cab. A preteen girl goes to a closed pizzeria hoping to repair animatronics that have been left there. Several animatronic characters power down and the light in their eyes flickers and goes out; a preteen girl asks if they are dead. A woman’s eyes glow and we hear cracking as she moves her head.
► A woman at a spin class imagines seeing an animatronic character telling her to go faster and she leaves the room; a man goes after her and she draws a gun on him before leaving the building. A teacher repeatedly disparages the robotics project of a preteen girl and tells her that she should not participate in a science fair; he later drops her project on the floor and it breaks.
► An animatronic character says, “I have to go pull the heads off some very bad people.” A man says, “Half of this town will be dead in the morning.” A man tells animatronic characters to crush people. An animatronic character tells a man, “You left me to die.” A man says of a woman, “She’s got crazy eyes.” A boy talks about believing in UFOs and ghosts. A man tells a woman that she will never be free of her father until she can put the memories of what he did out of her head. A preteen girl talks about an incident in which an animatronic character was crushed and left hidden in a secret room.
► A preteen girl remembers eating too much candy that caused her to vomit (we do not see this). A young girl takes a sip of soda and says that it tastes like gasoline.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 LANGUAGE 4

 – 6 scatological terms, 3 anatomical terms, 5 mild obscenities, name-calling (crazy, killer teddy bear, stupidity, hopeless, cheesy, creepy, embarrassment, fake, rude, idiot), exclamations (ew, jeez, oh goodness), 2 religious exclamations (e.g. thank God, Holy [scatological term deleted]). | profanity glossary |

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 SUBSTANCE USE

 – None.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Imagination, memories, death of friends, letting go of the past, obsession, legacy, betrayal, being selective with the truth, parenting, ambition.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 MESSAGE

 – Obsession and ambition can drive people to do unthinkable things.