The Bye Bye Man (2017)

I’m not going to pretend that this is a good movie. 
In fact, it’s garbage. It’s derivative, predictable, poorly performed, ill thought out and bland. It lacks self-awareness and creativity and instead draws entirely from the canon of better movies that came before. 
Our evil entity is called the Bye Bye Man, for fuck’s sake, but if you think about him or speak his name, the concept gains strength and takes over your mind. Our three sprightly college students learn this after moving to a new house and discovering the legend hidden on a nightstand. Scary things happen, but they’re just in people’s heads! Time passes strangely - almost as strangely as the accents that characters slip in and out of! The Bye Bye guy appears in shadows and reflections with scare chords, accompanied by some weird spectral hound! No one has any character development or backstory whatsoever! The lighting is truly atrocious and I spent half the movie wondering what was actually happening on screen! The Bye Bye Man is only salvaged from void of horror forgettability by way of sheer ridiculousness. 
Rating: 2/10 - The memes that initially spawned from this were exponentially better than the movie itself, and it is so utterly terrible at times that it can only be taken as comedic (I don’t say that lightly). If I were drinking and with friends, this could be a good time. As a horror movie though? It’s not a success.

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