Review:
In an alternate timeline, where Penner told a different writer about his idea, we may have an okay movie. There are kernels of good ideas here and there in the version we got has nothing else to offer. The Bye Bye Man makes no sense and goes out of its way to make sure you never really understand what the Bye Bye Man is or how he works. I get that he's a wrinkly man in a hooded robe with a bad CGI dog, but beyond that, I really don't know. Nothing else is much better as our lead and his girlfriend are terrible actors as are everyone but the librarian (who was kind of okay), the effects are awful, the pacing is off the wall, and the script is offensively bad. Penner himself plays the worst character, an offensively bold stereotype of a gay florist. There isn't even much to make fun of as a "good bad" movie. It can be semi-creepy at times, but on the whole it isn't worth the hour and a half.
