#THE BYE BYE MAN

[pretty-boydyke]

ive watched so much slop recently just for,, this guy

films ranked

[k752]

[littlesapphicraccoonguy]

Oh hell nah, bro’s lost his marbles 😭🙏

[horrorsmashorpass]

[roleplayfinder]

Hello 🐈‍⬛✨

I’m a female in my mid twenties I’m looking for role play partners for horror movie plots. We can also plot something together if you’d like. The movies I am looking to role play in are..

Halloween 1978

Scream 1996,1997,2011,2022 and 2023

Bride of Chucky 1998

Friday the 13th 2009

A nightmare on elm street 2010

Halloween Kills 2021

Halloween 2018

IT 2017

The ring 2002

Rings 2017

The Bye Bye Man 2017

As said before we can also plot something together if you’d like. I also do doubles and group role plays too! 🖤if interested like this post and I’ll reach out to you!

Please be 18+ 🐈‍⬛✨

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[nachofuck3r]

What do we all think about Larry?

​(Leigh Whannell try not to get a role as a loser, impossible challenge)

[horrororman]

📼 Notable films that were released on January 13th...

Son of Frankenstein (1939).

Two on a Guillotine (1965).

A Clockwork Orange (1972)(UK).

The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1974)(UK).

DeepStar Six (1989).

The January Man (1989).

Intruder (1989)(limited).

Pumpkinhead (1989)(US).

Stripped to Kill II: Live Girls (1989).

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1990)(PSIFF).

Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995).

One Hour Photo (2002)(Sundance).

Mortuary (2006).

The Bye Bye Man (2017).

Pitchfork (2017).

#horror

[idontknowwhatamidoinghere]

I just finished watching the bye bye man and look who I met.

[seawxtch-17]

I am trying REAL HARD to be calm rn but I can't cause I finally decided to sit down and watch the bye bye man cause I was reminded of how hated it was in 2017 AND BRO WTF IS THIS

WHY WAS I UNAWARE LEIGH WHANNELL WAS IN THIS MOVIE??????

[ouroboobos]

30 minutes into The Bye Bye Man and everyones already hallucinating and theres some kind of stupid love triangle jealousy thing going on. Ready for them all to kill each other

[littlesapphicraccoonguy]

I’m back with the cringe 🔥

Soooo I decided to make a furry design for Larry from the Bye Bye Man, he’s a meerkat! I’ll explain why under the cut

Alright so I have a couple reasons for making Larry a meerkat

1. Most of my other Leigh Whannell character furry designs are like- small weasel like animals and while meerkats aren’t weasels, they look like em, so yeah

2. Meerkats are the most homicidal animal on the planet, and while yes I know that Larry only massacred people in his neighborhood because the bye bye man drove him to do it, I think it still fits. Because also like- you wouldn’t expect a little meerkat to be capable of being so fucking cruel, just like how nobody would’ve expected that Larry would’ve suddenly gone insane and killed a bunch of people!

Soo yeah that’s the explanation, thank you

[raurquiz]

#happybirthday @AnnapurnaLiving #carrieannmoss #actress #trinity #thematrix #reloaded #TheAnimatrix #revolutions #resurrections #TheAcolyte #AccidentalTexan #DieAlone #TheByeByeMan #humans #memento #fido #tellmeastory #jessicajones #thedefenders #ironfist #redplanet #pompeii

[realrogerhours]

holy shit, brendaniel wasn't lying, fish blowjob shower curtains in the bye bye man

[webbywatcheshorror]

Webby Reviews Horror: The Bye Bye Man (2017)

The Bye Bye Man. This movie has been meme’d to death, and I’m sure, if you’re reading this, you’ve at least heard of it. I first watched it for my 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days challenge in 2022, expecting it to be the kind that doesn’t take itself seriously. But it does.

The Bye Bye Man tells the story of three college students that move into a fixer-upper of a house and unleash an unstoppable force of evil that comes for you once you know his name. Now on paper, that sounds like a solid premise. In practice.... well, we’ll get to that.

Review under the cut, and as always, SPOILERS AHEAD!

The Bye Bye Man is a tragedy. It contains so many good bits and pieces, but they aren’t quite assembled right- like a puzzle missing some pieces, and somebody painted over some of the others.

It has a decently strong opening- Leigh Whannell murders his way through a quiet suburban neighborhood, gunning down friends and neighbors while shouting about a name that shouldn’t be said, and sometimes muttering the tagline- don’t think it, don’t say it. Nice and intriguing, good First Kill.

Even going into the next sequence isn’t bad- meeting our core protagonists, setting up the scenery, establishing backstories, etc. A bit slow, but it works fine. The slow ramp-up of the upcoming horrors is pretty decent, too- the scene with the kid opening one door while the Hound creeps silently out of the one behind her was nice and eerie! Not to mention one of my favorite tropes in horror movies- Spot the Thing. I managed to find him in mirrors and shadows at least four times before his big reveal, but there’s likely even more I didn’t catch.

The concept itself is promising! An entity that stalks you but only after you know it exists, and the more you think about it, the closer you are to death! That fucking RULES! I’d be so fucking dead! Trying not to think about something, especially when that thing is toying with your mind constantly? An impossible task for me, and a story genre I will always love.

The breaking of the protagonists is also fairly decent. Elliot, the main protag, is adorably in love with his girlfriend, and is so close to the other character John, they consider each other brothers; by the end, they’ve turned on one another, driven mad by hallucinations and suspicion. Heartbreaking stuff, honestly.

There’s a post that’s been going around on Tumblr lately about phones and horror movies, and how instead of simply not working, they could be utilized to invoke more horror as working devices. The Bye Bye Man actually has a good example of this! There’s a scene where one of our protags, trying to ease his mind, is looking through pictures on his phone, when he is treated a series of pictures of the titular entity, who taunts him.

So if it has all these elements, why does it not deliver?

Firstly, the name. Now, I know the original tale (both folk tale and published book edition) also has him named the Bye Bye Man, but reading it and hearing it just have very different vibes. Reading a story about a malevolent spirit with a goofy name? Sure, I can let my imagination run with that. Hearing people say it out loud with their mouth? It just doesn’t land for me, no matter how hard I tried.

It’s possible that it COULD have landed, with some tweaks to the movie: more instances of characters unintentionally saying it, or hearing it as an auditory hallucination; even the way it’s said might have heightened its fear factor. Here, try this- say The Bye Bye Man as though you are reading the title of the movie out loud. Now, say it slow, hesitant, breath shaky and as though you’re forcing yourself to stop saying it. There’s a noticeable difference, yeah? Well, mostly, we only get the first example. Even just a slight pause between each word gives it a different feel, or at least it does to me.

There’s few tropes in movies that annoy the piss out of me more than miscommunication/straight up lack of communication that drives the plot/drama. I know our protags are college kids, and as such are prone to reactions rather than sense, but it’s incredibly irritating to me. Had they stopped to think for like, ten seconds, they might have even survived.

The fact that they’re still kids might explain why they kept making the same mistakes over and over- constantly forgetting they can’t trust what they hear or see, automatically assuming the worst of people they’re supposed to love and trust, continuing to say the name OUT LOUD even after they know it’s dangerous. Ok so most of these sins are committed by the main character, but they’re all guilty of them at some point or another.

It’s possible, too, that much of their nonsensical behavior can be chalked up to supernatural influence. And it’s also possible that I’m far more paranoid than your average person. But talking and acting INCREDIBLY SUSPICIOUSLY in front of cops at a crime scene wherein you are a prime suspect? And then, when confronted by Carrie-Anne Moss’s character, Elliot continues to be suspicious as all hell. Don’t imply you have something dangerous to hide in front of a cop! Why would you do that!?

I also feel like they could have established a few more details that would have given more impact to the eventual character breakdowns. Elliot’s jealousy fueled hallucinations could have been even better, had he stated outright earlier that he trusted his best friend and girlfriend, instead of unconvincingly denying being jealous when his older brother points out the other two dancing during the party scene. Subsequently, his struggle to maintain that implicit trust would have been more impressive, as he is bombarded with hallucinations that imply they’re having an affair, including a full on vision of them having sex in front of him.

That being said, I do like that they set up Elliot’s fatal flaw early on- his cocky overconfidence. During the séance scene, he keeps smugly dismissing any mention of the supernatural as being illogical and beneath his consideration. When he later realizes how to keep the Bye Bye Man at bay, he lets this small victory feed into his ego and he seems to think he’s no longer in danger; he is quickly relieved of this notion.

His solution, when you really break it down, would never have worked long-term, at least not for him. Simply do not fear the entity! He thrives off of fear, much like Pennywise. With a name that silly, this should be easy, to be honest. (In my initial livetweet thread, I toyed with the idea of calling him The Baby Man.) However, unlike the dancing clown, denying him the fear that powers him only makes him get more creative. Upon returning home, Elliot immediately falls for another one of Bye Bye’s tricks. Shouldn’t have challenged him. You fool.

The Man himself is a decent looking monster, played by the wonderful, incredible Doug Jones; but despite the sounds and signs that precede his arrival, we never learn anything about him. Why the coins? Why the train sounds? What’s up with the Hound? Was he once a living person? The original tale has a few answers, but they are nowhere to be found in the film, which is a shame, because it could definitely have benefitted from the knowledge that Bye Bye created his canine companion out of the body parts of his initial victims, and it’s true name is the Gloomslinger. That’s fucking rad!

This movie feels like it drew inspiration from Candyman and Final Destination, in that there is power in a name, and once you’ve drawn its attention, there’s no way to escape it. The world itself will twist until you’ve fallen victim, no matter how clever you think you are. It also reminds me of an OLD, OOOOOOOOLD creepypasta that featured something similar- some sort of entity that hunts you down once you’re made aware it exists. I can’t remember much about it, other than the final line was something like “I’m so sorry. Now that you know it exists, it’s coming for you.” (If anyone knows what I’m talking about, please let me know, but be aware that I read it well over 10 years ago and cannot remember anything else about it.)

Lastly, I want to mention that I enjoyed the way it ended. Our protags are dead, as well as everyone they told his name to. With no way to spread his evil, Bye Bye should be defeated- then we’re treated to Elliot’s young niece saying she found the nightstand with the name carved into it. The wheel keeps on turning, and what a shame- but no, she couldn’t read it in the dark. THEN, we find out that John, the best friend, has survived the house exploding (how tho), and the movie ends as he whispers the name to Carrie-Anne Moss, thus ensuring the cycle continues. 

I give this one five ghosts outta ten. The framework for a great movie is there, but ultimately, it failed to achieve what it set out to do. I do believe, however, that had this movie come out in the 80s, it would now be a cult classic, and considered genuinely terrifying. Then again, if it had, we’d have been denied another instance of Leigh Whannell’s character dying horrifically, and that’d be a shame.

[onedayfandom]

A very annoying thing about the Bye bye man is that the concept of something hunting you the more you think about it and gives you hallucinations to make you loose it, is really neat and terrifying!

Alas, the movies execution is shit :/