The Bye Bye Man

There's an art to being bad. The Bye Bye Man hasn't studied that art - but it's good enough to get you going.

The script teems with horror clichs (scribbled drawings, a creepy kid, the skeptical protagonist looking up the demon's origins on a library computer), and everything from the acting to the makeup to the special effects is atrocious.

Maybe all will be explained in the sequel. If so, your writer is happy to remain uneducated.

It may be that I'm assessing on a curve because it's January. But if you miss the slasher icons of old and have little patience for the reboot attempts they get periodically, it's nice to see at least a worthy attempt to add to that pantheon.

It just doesn't work, and the likelihood I'll think or say this unremarkable film's name again anytime soon is nominal at best.

To think that everyone here intended to make a movie this utterly lifeless and banal from the outset is infinitely more frightening than anything presented on screen.

Is it possible The Bye Bye Man is actually a genre spoof?

The Bye Bye Man is one of the worst horror films I've ever seen and the best advice I can give any cinephile thinking about watching this film is, "Don't think it. Don't Say it. Don't See it."

It never quite develops itself nor does it explain a lot of avoidable mistakes. It's one of those films that is so painful to watch that you wonder, did they make it this bad on purpose?

"The Bye Bye Man" is one of those movies that takes on a completely different meaning when you know its backstory.