Five Nights at Freddy’s 2

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Not suitable under 14; parental guidance to 14 (scary scenes, violence, themes)

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This topic contains:

  • overall comments and recommendations
  • details of classification and consumer advice lines for Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
  • a review of Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 completed by the Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM) on 9 December 2025.

Overall comments and recommendations

Children under 13 Not suitable due to scary scenes, violence, and themes.
Children aged 14 Parental guidance recommended due to scary scenes, violence, and themes.
Children aged 15 and over Ok for this age group.

About the movie

This section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Australian Government Classification Board and the associated consumer advice lines. Other classification advice (OC) is provided where the Australian film classification is not available.

Name of movie: Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
Classification: M
Consumer advice lines: Sustained threat and violence
Length: 104 minutes

ACCM review

This review of the movie contains the following information:

A synopsis of the story

Set in 2002, one year after the events of the first Five Nights at Freddy’s, Mike (Josh Hutcherson), Abby (Piper Rubio) and Vanessa (Elizabeth Lail) are trying to rebuild their lives and find a sense of normalcy. Abby, however, still misses her animatronic friends and one night, she sets off to see them again – but she discovers they are no longer around. In order to comfort her, Mike gifts Abby a ‘FazTalker’, an electronic voice interaction device.

Later that night, Abby is contacted through the FazTalker and is convinced to visit the original Freddy Fazbear's Pizza venue. Therein, she discovers a new set of ‘toy’ animatronics. Unbeknownst to Abby, they are being controlled by a puppet-like animatronic called the Marionette. The animatronic is possessed by Charlotte, a young girl murdered in the original diner back in 1982. Recently awakened, she plans to use the toy animatronics to murder parents across town as revenge for her tragic death. With the threat escalating, Mike, Abby and Vanessa must work together to shut down the animatronics and save the town.

Themesinfo

Children and adolescents may react adversely at different ages to themes of crime, suicide, drug and alcohol dependence, death, serious illness, family breakdown, death or separation from a parent, animal distress or cruelty to animals, children as victims, natural disasters and racism. Occasionally reviews may also signal themes that some parents may simply wish to know about.

Death; Crime; Family breakdown; Children as victims.

Use of violenceinfo

Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another.

Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world.

There is some violence in this movie, including:

  • There are frequent jump-scares throughout the film, many with violent moments immediately after.
  • A little boy is kidnapped in a Freddy’s diner. Charlotte is stabbed off-screen while trying to free him and her bloody stab wounds are visible.
  • Abby recounts the events of the first film, describing the gruesome springlock mechanism that stabbed into William Afton’s abdomen.
  • Some paranormal activity content creators are murdered in a Freddy’s diner. One is dragged underwater; another is possessed by the Marionette.
  • Vanessa continues to have traumatic flashbacks of her father, pulling a gun on a man, as he tries to check in on her.
  • Vanessa shoots her father in a dream.
  • Vanessa is tied up and choked by the Marionette, who blackmails her by threatening to kill Abby.
  • An animatronic kills a person by squashing their skull until it breaks.
  • Vanessa is attacked by the animatronics while driving, causing her to drive off the road and crash.
  • A man ‘clotheslines’ another person as they are running.

Material that may scare or disturb children

Under fiveinfo

Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children under the age of five, including the following:

  • A teacher berates and puts down his students repeatedly.

Aged five to eightinfo

Children aged five to eight will also be frightened by scary visual images and will also be disturbed by depictions of the death of a parent, a child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes and scary visual images, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged five to eight, including the following:

  • The appearance of the Freddy’s Diner venues may frighten audiences.
  • The animatronics’ appearance is likely to frighten many children (and some adults), with their eerie, uncanny expressions, sharp-looking teeth, and exposed metallic components.

Aged eight to thirteeninfo

Children aged eight to thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic threats and dangers, violence or threat of violence and / or stories in which children are hurt or threatened.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged eight to thirteen, including the following:

  • Children in this age group are also likely to be scared or disturbed by the above scenes and images.

Thirteen and overinfo

Children over the age of thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic physical harm or threats, molestation or sexual assault and / or threats from aliens or the occult.

  • Nothing further noted.

Product placement

  • None noted.

Sexual references

There are some sexual references in this movie, including:

  • Abby askes Mike if he has kissed Vanessa yet.

Nudity and sexual activity

  • None noted.

Use of substances

There is some use of substances in this movie, including:

  • Mike and Vanessa drink from wine glasses over dinner.

Coarse language

There is some coarse language in this movie, including:

  • Shit
  • Damn
  • What the hell
  • Asshole
  • Jackass
  • Dick.

In a nutshell

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is the sequel to the 2023 film based on the video game series by Scott Cawthon. Like the games, the film sits within the horror genre, featuring numerous jump-scares and violent scenes. Due to the frightening nature, themes, and violence, the film is unsuitable for children under 14, and parental guidance is recommended up to and including age 14.

The main messages from this movie are that the past has a direct impact on the present, and unresolved mistakes or problems will inevitably resurface.

Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:

  • Teamwork
  • Bravery
  • Empathy
  • Love.

This movie could also give parents the opportunity to discuss with their children the importance of being cautious around strangers and recognising that not everyone who seems friendly can be trusted.