the audience applauded

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I think the story and idea for this film wasn't too bad. A lot of clichés...but I think a new "evil" villain was created that was ominous and original. However the script and film loses credibility when the acting is so bad. I'm not sure whether it was the direction, editing or the actors...but I found that to be the worst part. Even cameo's by Carrie Ann Moss and the legendary Faye Dunaway couldn't save this. I found the worse culprit to be the girl. I felt like I was watching Nightmare on Elm Street with the forced acting of Heather Langenkamp. Or even Adrienne King from the original Friday the 13th. Where it was tolerable then...we've advanced so much in cinema we expect better acting nowadays.I never like films that are set up for a sequel...so the end I rolled my eyes. Wasn't really necessary. I think the script jumped a bit and wasn't as smooth as it could be...but overall it was ok. But its always hard to get past bad acting.

I should've known, all the evidence was there. First January weekend release, low budget horror, negative reviews, all the signs indicating that this was going to be terrible. I just didn't know it was going to be THIS atrocious. It revolves around a group of teenagers who rent a house, everything is great until one of them sees the name "The Bye Bye Man" etched onto some furniture. Unfortunately for that individual, you can't say or even think of the name otherwise he will come for you. A representation of how an idea can manifest the mind, metaphorically conveying the sins of our...oh who am I even kidding, it's just an old man in a cloak. The mythology behind "The Bye Bye Man", in retrospect, is quite stupid. Subconsciously you will always think about the name, so really if you ever see those words...you're pretty much done for. Adios. See you later! Keeping the above in mind, no thrills can effectively be produced because the characters are going to die anyway. You can't stop yourself thinking of something, 'Inception' taught us this! Regardless, this was utter rubbish. Aside from the promising opening sequence and Carrie-Anne Moss doing her best Trinity impression (*cough* lifeless *cough*) there was nothing original here. Just one or two jump scares and some kids rapidly going insane shouting "Don't say it! Don't think it!". The characters had as much development as the antagonist's name (hint: none) and the acting was truly awful, particularly Bonas. It was borderline TV movie standard. The "scares" were just loud noises or plastic stunt dolls unexpectedly getting demolished by an oncoming vehicle, that's it. They even CGI'd his skinless hell hound, badly may I just say. Wait, why does he even have one!? Who is "The Bye Bye Man"? Why is there a guy called Virgil? Did he seriously look up "The Bye Bye Man" on a search engine, in a library? Why am I wasting precious life watching this!? Urgh, I'm done. Uninteresting, unoriginal, unexciting and damn un-fricking-scary. I'm waving goodbye to this trash.

I picked this up from Pound-land on Blu Ray so I was not expecting much.The story is a pretty generic Nemesis style horror film. Something nasty is coming for our main characters and it doesn't look like it wants to make friends.I actually really enjoyed this. The production and direction are pretty good as is the acting. The majority of the jump scares and creepy moments land effectively and my interest was kept right up until the end.This movie is unlikely to blow your mind but it is well made, does the job and then ends before it out stays its welcome - what more can yo ask for?

Stupidest horror movie that i have ever seen, and i saw blair witch 2, and all of the friday the 13th movies, everything is so poorly acted and poorly written than it just comes of as stupid, the bye bye man is the stupidest name that i have ever scene, stupid stupid stupid