The Bye Bye Man | Stacy Title | January 13, 2017

[Boxofficerules]

 

[Mockingjay Raphael]

Why the first horror movie of year is always a bad one? Is this a type of tradition?

[Mockingjay Raphael]

"A grab-bag of hand-me-down horror movie clichés confusedly stitched together without much visual flair...its promotional tagline ...'Don't think it, don't say it' should really be expanded with 'don't see it."

 

 

LMFAO!!!!! Up to 6 Rotten and 1 Fresh. O/U 10%?

[Boxofficerules]

 The one positive review seems to be recommending watching it ironically.

[filmlover]

30 minutes ago, Boxofficerules said:

 

These two:

 

[franfar]

1 hour ago, Mockingjay Raphael said:

Why the first horror movie of year is always a bad one? Is this a type of tradition?

Horror usually gets bad reviews year round. 

[AniNate]

1 hour ago, Mockingjay Raphael said:

Why the first horror movie of year is always a bad one? Is this a type of tradition?

 

Expectations should be low for pretty much any movie that has its first screenings in January.

[TalismanRing]

10 minutes ago, franfar said:

Horror usually gets bad reviews year round. 

 

Last year for  change had quite a lot of well reviewed horror films

[franfar]

49 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

 

Last year for  change had quite a lot of well reviewed horror films

Did it have that many? There was Conjuring 2 and Don't Breathe, that's all I remember

[AniNate]

The Witch and Green Room also

[CJohn]

1 hour ago, franfar said:

Did it have that many? There was Conjuring 2 and Don't Breathe, that's all I remember

The Witch, Ouija: Origin of Evil and Lights Out.

[WrathOfHan]

Good thing SPLIT won't fall to the first horror film of the year curse  

 

1 minute ago, CJohn said:

The Witch, Ouija: Origin of Evil and Lights Out.

Don't forget Green Room

Edited January 12, 2017 by WrathOfHan

[That One Girl]

2 hours ago, WrathOfHan said:

Good thing SPLIT won't fall to the first horror film of the year curse  

 

Don't forget Green Room

And The Shallows.

[franfar]

1 hour ago, That One Guy said:

And The Shallows.

I was shocked by the success of that movie. Didn't think Lively was that big of a draw

[filmlover]

5 minutes ago, franfar said:

I was shocked by the success of that movie. Didn't think Lively was that big of a draw

[franfar]

2 minutes ago, filmlover said:

NSFL 

[That One Girl]

33 minutes ago, filmlover said:

 

 

That scene scared the shit out of me .

[Talkie]

 

[Talkie]

Double Toasted's review is probably more fun than the movie. Korey Coleman mentioned that Stacy Title directed Hood of Horror starring Snoop Dogg, Billy Dee Williams, Danny Trejo and a host of others. TBH, that looks a thousand times better than Bye Bye Man. 

 

 

[JonathanLB]

I saw a lot of good horror last year. Lights Out is probably one of the best horror films I've ever seen. For me, anyway, that was perfectly done. Just extremely creepy and eerie, I loved it. I did enjoy The Shallows quite a bit, though.

 

At this time last year, I thought the trailers for The Forest looked promising and had plans to see it. The reviews came out and, yeah, I was scared away. Never did see it. I try not to be TOO dependent on critical reviews, but I draw the line somewhere. If it's getting skewered I won't leave my house to go see a movie I know will suck.