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

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 3, 2022

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."

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Feb 18, 2022

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?

| Jan 2, 2021

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 19, 2020

The opening scene is legitimately fantastic, but the rest of the movie falls far, far short of that.

| Original Score: D+ | Jul 2, 2020

The film is underwritten, overplayed, illogical, while grossly misjudging what it takes to scare people.

| May 1, 2020

As a movie, The Bye Bye Man serves but one function: to deliver a safe, completely middle-of-the-road genre picture for undiscerning teens.

| Mar 27, 2020

Not only can the movie not keep track of its own mythology, every cliché is trotted out, and it seems to be borrowing from anywhere and everywhere too.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Oct 7, 2019

Unfortunately, the film can't even quite live up to its own familiar distinctions.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 4, 2019

Eight reasons why not to see The Bye Bye Man

| Original Score: 0/10 | Aug 9, 2019

All in all, another Friday the 13th flop. Albeit one with a glimmer of hope at its core.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 9, 2019

How a film as ridiculous as The Bye Bye Man saw the light of day is beyond this writer.

| Feb 19, 2019

Because of poor momentary editing, the movie never functions as horror...the dialogue is usually flat and blatantly terrible, just explaining stuff to the audience...

| Feb 11, 2019

Otherwise, waving off the dullness of 'The Bye Bye Man' is the only satisfaction that warrants one's indifference to this piece of faceless slasher sludge.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 9, 2018

Uses a lot of bells and whistles to appear to be something fresh and new, but is ultimately a bunch of ragged pieces from the genre thrown together into one all-too-familiar stew.

| Nov 3, 2018

Perhaps if the film had spent more time learning about the villain himself, as opposed to seeing his effects on the three students, the story would have held the interest of viewers.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 2, 2018

The Bye Bye Man is an uneven mixture of effective scares and ineffective filler.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 1, 2018

The characters utter two sentences repeatedly in the film: "Don't think it. Don't say it." I've got one more to add: don't see it.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 31, 2018

It's not that this is an awful film, it's just put together inadequately, and is highly unoriginal.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2018

I saw better three-minute projects in my high school than this 96 minute pile of garbage.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 30, 2018