The Bye Bye Man (2017)
Film Review
By the Geezer of Oz
“Three friends stumble upon the horrific origins of a mysterious figure they discover is the root cause of the evil behind unspeakable acts.” (IMDb)
I did not have high expectations of this one and I got exactly what I expected, a below average, unoriginal, unsatisfying horror flick. It’s a shame really, as its storyline had some potential and the production value is decent.
Director Stacy Title, who in 1995 made the excellent The Last Supper, makes somewhat of a return to feature films with this one. In my opinion, from a filmmaking standpoint, if she had any choice here, she made a wrong one. Then again, the film was somewhat successful at the box office. According to Box Office Mojo, The Bye Bye Man brought in almost US$26.7 Million on a US$7.4 Million budget.
With appearances from fairly big names such as Carrie-Anne Moss (Memento, The Matrix films, Disturbia, Silent Hill: Revelation), Faye Dunaway (Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, Three Days of the Condor, Network, Eyes of Laura Mars, Albino Alligator, Inconceivable), Doug Jones (Hellboy 1&2, Pan’s Labyrinth, Legion, The Shape of Water, TV’s Falling Skies, The Strain and Star Trek: Discovery) and Leigh Whannell (Saw, Dying Breed, the Insidious films, Crush, Keep Watching), it could (and should) have been much better…
A pedestrian, uninspired effort.
5/10.
