After years of collaboration between "Five Nights at Freddy's" creator Scott Cawthorne and several filmmakers (first Warner Bros. and then Blumhouse), the point-and-click horror series has finally been adapted for the screen. But perhaps not a great film.

"Five Nights at Freddy's" opens in theaters this Friday in the US and is streaming on Peacock. It's pretty brutal; our friends at GamesRadar say the animatronic monsters are "as scary as Barney" and the PG-13 film is a "gore-right yawn," and they're not alone in thinking so:

It's rough-hewn for a film that took nearly a decade to make.

The film is "a bit of a mess.

The film "Five Nights at Freddy's" began development in 2015. A few years later, Warner Bros. abandoned the collaboration with Cawthorn and moved to Blumhouse Productions, with a new director, Chris Columbus, a master of family films best known for "Home Alone" and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". The script was finished, but Cawthorne tossed it out in favor of new ideas, and Columbus later left the project. The film, finally released this week, was directed by Emma Tami.

Although the project has slowed down, Cawthorne's creative control may finally please game fans (who rate it highly so far on IMDB). After the original story hit the YouTuber-centric boom in 2014, with multiple sequels, spin-off novels, and Funko toys, its murderous 80s pizza robot has inspired a litany of canonical and fan-written lore, and director Cawthorn is hoping that fans of the game will be pleased to see him Reviews say he filled the film with Easter eggs.

But while they may have been children when the game was first released, now adults, or near-adults, who are big fans of FNAF, may want something more gruesome than what the review says.

Two reviews, one from SciFiNow and the other from the Irish Times, have everyone rating the 2021 Nicolas Cage film "Willie's Wonderland" as a clear rip-off of "FNAF." (Not that you should watch "Willy's Wonderland," but it's on Hulu if you want to.) I thought "Renfield" was a bad movie, but Cage made it funny at times, so maybe it's the same here.)

"Five Nights at Freddy's" is currently playing in U.K. theaters and will open in U.S. theaters and Peacock this Friday (October 27).