Chuck E. Cheese Training Manual Scares Fans for Five Nights at Freddy’s Reference

The parallels between pizza-and-arcade chain Chuck E. Cheese and the popular video game franchise Five Nights at Freddy’s are more than obvious for many fans, but a recent image sent people into a frenzy with the idea that the restaurants animatronics could hurt people. A post from Twitter user @pablothinghouse made mention of the restaurant’s instruction booklet, which included the suggestion that Chuck E. Cheese himself had facial recognition software and would come to life to attack any intruders caught on the property after hours.

For those who might be unaware, the story of the FNAF games has a security guard trying to survive a night in the haunted pizzeria. The animatronics patrolling the building have facial recognition technology that sees a person identifies them as a metallic skeleton and tries to shove them back into one of the spare suits in an employee room. In the second game, the player is given a fake mask to hide from the roaming robots, but unfortunately, some of them are not fooled by that makeshift disguise. Because of all of this, the FNAF fanbase celebrated yet another eerie similarity between the game and real life.

The post read, “It is always important that all Chuck. E. Cheese’s night-shift employees must wear a spare Chuck E. Cheese costume head to avoid any animatronic facial recognition, because if they spot any humans in the building post-hours, they will automatically detect that person as a criminal trying to tamper with objects from the building, and that won’t lead to anything good…”

The FNAF fanbase has been on this extended victory lap for a week. Recently, Jason Blum of Blumhouse offered some good news about the long-awaited Five Nights at Freddy’s movie. In a conversation with Fandom, he talked about how the development was going well and progress was being made.

“We have been working on it for a long time,” Blum told Variety before adding that development is, “Super active. So I really feel like we have a very good shot at getting to see a Five Nights at Freddy’s movie. I feel like it’s really moving forward. It’s not stalled or anything else. It might seem that way because we haven’t done any announcements about it, but it’s not stalled. It’s moving rapidly forward and I don’t want to put a timeline on it, but soon we’ll get a movie. I really feel confident about it.”

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