Five Nights at Freddy’s — Dreamwork to navigate the unconscious and a murderous teddy bear

Mental Health is Horrifying

Let’s talk about Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023) and its portrayal of the personal unconscious through dreams.
K so the reason I went to see this movie is because Matthew Lillard is in it and I think he is one of THE BEST horror film actors of all time and I will see anything he is in. But I was SO pleasantly surprised at how much I liked this movie! I immediately saw that this movie was about the navigation of trauma through dreamwork and Jungian archetypes — AND there were adorable murderous animatronic critters who love pizza and singing songs so like… what’s there not to like?
Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, owner of Many Moons Therapy.
Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst from Contempomint.
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