The Hug

I only watched this because the banner on Hulu showed what was clearly a Billy Bob animatronic mask from Showbiz Pizza, poorly spray painted to look somewhat like a panda. And that's about as far as the value of this thing goes. It's clearly just trying to bank off of the popularity Five Nights at Freddy's had for like 2 years and was made way too late, but I really love the homages to Showbiz, with even the logo for the pizza place being a bit too spot-on to the Showbiz Pizza logo. I just wish there was more passion in it than that. VERY cheap, and with delightfully campy acting.

As a shameless ripoff of the videogame franchise that burned itself out within 2 years, this is actually pretty damn good. There are visuals that still haunt me weeks later. Unfortunately, it needs to be a full movie. It'll leave you wanting so much more.

Well shot, pretty well acted, good effects, just generally well made. It was effectively creepy and gross and it's well worth the watch. Especially since it's only five minutes long!

Also the panda just looks really strange. What kind of Panda has a skin tone on it's face?

Thanks to the game series Five Nights at Freddy's (which I never played), it seems that now everything to related with animatronics must be something horror-related.

Derivative premise aside, this was effectively creepy, even if you can see the "twist" coming from a mile away.

I'm not really sure of how this would work as a full-lenght feature film.