Everything The Five Nights At Freddy’s Movie Changed From The Games

Another major difference between the games and the «Five Nights at Freddy’s» film is the reimagining of the Crying Child. In the game canon, the Crying Child first appears as the protagonist of the minigames in «Five Nights at Freddy’s 4.» Through the course of the minigames, the narrative tells the tragic story of one of William Afton’s two younger children, the unnamed sibling of Elizabeth and Michael. The minigames show how the Crying Child was bullied by his older brother, who, along with three other children, stuffed the child into the mouth of Fredbear as a gag, unaware of the spring-lock system.

Horrifically, the spring-lock system fails, causing Fredbear’s mouth to chomp down, biting off the child’s frontal lobe and eventually killing him — an event known to fans as the Bite of ’83. The traumatic event would set off William Afton’s monstrous deeds and lead to Michael Afton’s remorseful investigations beginning with the first «Five Nights at Freddy’s» game.

In the film, the Crying Child is replaced by Garrett (Lucas Grant), Mike Schmidt’s little brother. Mirroring the games’ events but altering them, the film also finds Mike Schmidt acting out of remorse. But instead of regret for bullying his brother and getting him killed, Mike Schmidt’s guilt is for failing to stop the kidnapper when he was supposed to be watching his sibling. Unlike his mean-spirited game counterpart, the Mike we see in the movie loved his little brother dearly and considered his family near perfect before the crime.