“Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” is a supernatural video-game slasher movie of astonishing clunky crudeness. No, the movie isn’t dumb fun. It’s flat-out bad, maybe even worse than the first film. The “monsters” are amusing to look at, at least for a few minutes — they’re 10-foot-tall, clanking-metal animatronic mascots that escape from the dingy ruins of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, an abandoned kiddie birthday emporium. They can loom up in a threatening way, but they aren’t especially frightening, and the director, Emma Tammi (returning from the first film), stages the violence is such an innocuous way that you feel like you’re watching some bowdlerized network-TV version of a horror
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