"Nah. Just cold."
Cherry-picking the best ideas from Candyman, It Follows and The Conjuring series, The Bye Bye Man manages to create a very uncompelling film. The first half is extremely dull, as three very uninteresting college students rent an unfeasibly huge house and, well, strange things start to happen and a shady past is very slowly uncovered. The second half livens up a little, but as there is little investment in the characters and the screenplay roves all over the place it is hard to maintain interest. Carrie-Anne Moss also enters the fray occasionally and seemingly wanders in from a different movie altogether. With odd pacing and a soundtrack that is not too successful, overall The Bye Bye Man proves to be considerably weaker than many of its contemporaries.
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