The Bye Bye Man

None of the elements of the film cohere into anything remotely believable. What do the mysterious coins signify? The cubbyholes? Is this film a study in group insanity? Who knows!

This film is why people hate horror today The acting in this film is shockingly bad. Reactions to such things that would take you back, were like they’d already had already seen it to not be that shocked. Elliot says if you don’t fear him, he can’t hurt you. This is literally next to ripping off A nightmare on elm street. The make up and design of the bye bye man, it was like a decently made Halloween costume you’d do at home than a horror film. The cgi in some scenes... yep. Douglas smith as Elliot was probably the worst actor, especially one certain scene. There’s a shot gun scene, two people shot, zero blood, or even good acting as the victims were shot. Kim’s big scene (you’ll see it when it happens) sort of made me giggle! It was like a genuine comedy scene and I did that tired slow laugh at it.

If you take too long to write a review after seeing this movie, you might have a hard time recalling the story. That is its main sin here. It tries to make a valiant entry into the haunted creature feature genre. But alas, this one was not for the history books.

This was a pretty solid movie that I quite enjoyed. I liked the whole concept of the movie a lot. Just by knowing a name can haunt you. When we know we shouldn't think about something for some reason we can't help but think about it. Thinking of saying the name The Bye Bye Man will come to haunt you in many ways. I thought this movie was executed well and I would like for a sequel.

Boring and rubbish. This movie was not scary at all.

This movie hits an arc and then plummets to the ground like a Temu RC plane and buries its nose in Old Man Crenshaw’s spice garden. Opens up with a great flashback and sets the table for the plot and you’re already wondering where this story is headed. The phrase “Don’t say it. Don’t think it.” permeates through the movie and adds more tension but round about 30 minutes in, it all starts to smell bad like a Jason Voorhies victim. It’s hard to say which is worse: the plot, the CGI, or the female lead’s acting. Nothing makes sense. We never find out who or what the Bye Bye Man is except I CAN tell you he does look like Voldemort’s slow thinking cousin. And his dog/hellhound looks like something a 12 year old scrawled on the back of his notebook with his eyes closed. Jonathan Prenner should never write another horror script or should be forced to watch this flick everyday. Surprisingly Faye Dunaway and Carrie-Anne Moss have small roles and most likely they’re thankful they weren’t on screen for a long period of time. Been a long time since I watched a movie with a great start and then turn into hot garbage. The Bye Bye Man is a No No Movie.

-1 the special effects were bad and -0.5 some parts didn’t go anywhere. even that’s one of the things I didn’t like about it, I still think it’s good

A decent horror film that kept me interested throughout its run time.

So bad, and not good. I genuinely cannot believe human beings were able to make something this bland and terrible. If I were the director I would go to bed every night asking myself “why did I have to make something that bad?” And then cry. .5/5 stars.

When this first came out it had me saying “don’t say it, don’t think it”. I think everyone was so over critical on the movie expecting a jump scare horror movie, but this movie requires more complex thinking. What made this movie a great scary movie was the fact that it attacks the minds of the victims not the actual people themselves which I think is absolute genius! It’s not a copycat or derivative of any other scary movie I have no idea why everyone was saying that. Fear is a powerful thing and with the right amount of crazy and fear struck into people this could be a real situation that to me is what makes this movie actually scary!