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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM

The Bye Bye Man: Don't Watch It, Don't Remember It
By Rouén Robinson
Feb 6, 2017 - 11:31:30 PM

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The Evil Behind The Most Unspeakable Acts Has A Name...

When three college friends happen upon a curse connected to house they move into off campus, they must find the origins of it as a way of freeing themselves. As their fear begins to grow due to the power of the supernatural entity they have unleashed, they struggle to keep its existence secret as not to expose others to the terror they must endure.

Elliot is a college student on scholarship who is renting a house off campus with his girlfriend and best friend, but when he unleashes a evil entity he finds it harder to trust them. Sasha is Elliot’s girlfriend who is finding it increasingly difficult to know what is real as the evil entity begins to force her to see and hear things that are not there. John is Elliot’s best friend who has been there for him since the death of his parents when they were in Tier 1 little league baseball, but he is finding himself unsure of everyone around him. The Bye Bye Man is an entity that comes to those who think and speak its name with a hell hound that feeds on the remains of the dead caused by the manipulation of the victim’s mind.

The Bye Bye Man is a great example of what an unfinished thought looks like when put on the big screen. There are so many parts of this movie that gave the promise of a better film, but then abandoned those threads to weave something incredibly mediocre. I have been a fan of Douglas Smith since the tv show Out There and even though I will not say this is beneath him, I will say that he is capable of better. I can say with confidence that this movie is beneath Carrie-Anne Moss and Faye Dunaway who bring a level of talent to this flick that is baffling. The writing and directing duo of Jonathan Penner and Stacy Title have shown a glimmer of promise with their take on Hamlet with Let The Devil Wear Black, but this adaption of The Bridge to Body Island from Robert Damon Scheck’s The President’s Vampire is an utter mess. This scary movie hints at a much better horror movie that we never get to see with plot holes you can run a train through.

I rate this movie a 1 out of 5.

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Rouén Robinson has been an avid moviegoer since childhood and has been critiquing motion pictures for almost a decade. He has been a film critic for The Cinemas on Tempo and was a judge for FLIFF On Location: Grand Bahama Island, an off shoot of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF). Rouén lives in Grand Bahama and can be reached at redr1976@icloud.com and on Twitter @thereelrouen

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