"The Bye Bye Man" is such an un-scary title, even variations on the same theme could be scarier: -The Farewell Fellow -The Toodleoo Tyrant -The Catch Ya Later Creep Then again, maybe they should have just titled this "Don't watch it, don't rent it".
"Doomsinger" is an excellent name and a wasted concept. Now imagine if instead of Bye Bye Man, the killer who only kills you if you know his name had the cool and catchy name of Doomsinger, and after killing people he always stole their eyes and tongues, then incorporated those into his body. He could also supernaturally mimic the voices of people whose tongues he's stolen!
@@burntgrahamcracker2866 Nope, I just tossed together ideas I picked up from watching this review of The Bye Bye Man (and I saw someone else review it a few years ago...I Hate Everything, I think?)
@@RoninCatholic oh well the tearing out tongues and gaining their voices is in dead silence. A ventriloquist kills a child heckling her, gets murdered by the town she’s in and goes onto kill their descendants by ripping out their tongues when they scream because the town ripped hers out. The film was made by the guy behind saw
I'm not sure where Beetlejuice enters it. The name thing? Based on that one trailer line, "your fear of him makes him real, gives him strength," I thought of it more like a Nightmare on Elm Street power source using a Candyman device. It kinda makes sense, they explored that a little in Freddy Vs Jason, but even that movie wasn't setting itself up for failure like this one is. It's pretty funny they leaned into the name thing, because they didn't have to make the name 'Bye Bye Man' a massive contrivance. What was stopping them from making a nonsense word, just like Ouija got its name, or leaving the name aside? It was a choice, and a terribly calculated one, to hinge the premise on no one knowing or saying aloud, "Bye bye, man!"
Don’t forget to throw in the costume of the Zombie Fisherman from that third I Know What You Did Last Summer movie. Yeah, this movie was doomed from the start.
dude, this setting and the mood threw me off on the start of the movie. you know it's bad when you start the movie and you already know something is wrong.
3:49 that woman was one of my acting professors at my university. Every time someone mentioned this movie she got really embarrassed. She occasionally gets two-three dollar royalty checks from doing it.
Interesting to know that the silly named movie ACTUALLY had some neat ideas, a good story from the book...and they didn't use them well or at all. That would have required giving a shit.
Michelangelo: "Listen bros, we can't think or say The Bye Bye Man's name, otherwise, The Bye Bye Man will kill all of us." Donatello: "But...you already said his name twice." Michelangelo: "OOOOOOPS" *MICHELANGELO IS BRAIN DEAD*
The writers know that college isn't highschool, right? IRL the Professor probably wouldn't give a shit if someone looked at their phone for a minute or so.
I had a professor who refused to repeat anything during his lectures, which was bad, since his lessons were super boring and I have a short attention span, being autistic and all. Ended up with a C overall for that class. Passed, but barely.
I honestly can't even take the name seriously. The premise of a killer that will kill you if you say or even think their name could be creepy if done competently, but between the ridiculous name and stupid decisions the characters make it's just hard to get invested in.
Having the killer appear if you say their name three times is creepy, but there's no way of stopping people from thinking about something, it becomes too ridiculous at that point.
Not to mention, I am watching this review after I just saw 1992's Candyman for the first time last night, and that old horror film utilizes the premise far better.
If he uses the coins to lead you to his name the movie shouldve been him leading the mains to his real name, bc Bye Bye Man sounds like something a kid would come up with. The little girl shouldve seen him, made up that name when she mentions it to/gets asked something about whatever by the mains (bc they gotta find out somehow) and since its not his real name the mains throwing it around has no effect. They think the supernatural coin appearances are leading them to answers on how to beat/get rid of him but its just him leading them to their deaths. Or...something akin to that I dunno I just remember seeing ads for this and thinking a child would be who gave him that name.
Yes, he appears during the movie and scares them, but it isn't until they find the information they think will get rid of him that he appears, his blank expression turns into a wide grin and then it turns into a shot of the house exterior while loud thumps and cracking noises occur before switching back to streaks of blood all over the interior. There's a lot of things you can do with that idea.
Makes me think the President had something bigger than the secret service to kill. A vampire they must feed during their four years as president. If they refuse, those closest to them will be feed to the vampire instead!
This movie might have redeemed itself if at the end the Bye-Bye Man had revealed he only killed people who said his name because he didn't want others to know that there was someone around with such a stupid-ass name.
“I love how the floors are not sound anymore and maybe we’ll fall to our deaths! What an adventure!” I dunno phelous, I’m a fan and everything, but I feel like wandering around an old house with a dangerous floor is exactly your idea of a fun adventure
The BEST thing about this movie is an interview bit with the guy who plays the Bye Bye Man in which the cutest, bounciest squirrel ever really wants to be friends with him. The only place I've seen it is on the ralphthemoviemaker video (at 28.34). It's worth it. Also: nice costume, sir.
i'm a little surprised to learn that "Bye Bye Man" was based on an older story--i was basically convinced that it was more "off-brand Slender Man" (never saw it myself and don't care to ever bother with it)
@@phelous an excellent point XD it's like that Asylum movie made to cash in on Marvel's Thor which they got around by using an older, public-domain comics character ALSO named Thor :P
@@pentelegomenon1175 yeah, i admit that i didn't bother to look up when it was actually made--the original cover art made me think it was much older :P i guess another way to put that would've been "was an adaptation of something"
Wait. So. A monster that comes for you when you know his name. That kinda reminds me of a Freakazoid episode. Where the bad guy would kidnap you if you said his name. I don't really remember much but I think it was Candlejack? OH GODDA-
I know where the fire in the house in the end came from: Bye Bye Man is actually set in Foodfight's universe, where your home destroys itself when you die. It also explains Bye Bye Man's dumb name, he's actually a product mascot. Also, glad to see a new ""horror"" movie review from you, especially if it's Don't Say It, Don't Spray It; keep up the good form!
The sickening thing about this is the movie made more than three times its budget back. But the horrific part of this is that the studio paid almost seven and a half million dollars to make it. I could do with seven and a half million dollars. Hell, I could do with just half a million dollars.
@@Boltscrap Yes... (although twenty, twenty-five years ago 7.5 million wouldn't really be *that* low budget. Maybe on the line). But really, what I'm so mad about here is there's so little care, no *enthusiasm*, went into making this movie, when you could have given half that money to any fresh-faced film grad for their dream project, and the rest to needy people, and at least gotten to feel good about helping needy people out of it. And maybe something interesting from the film grad.
Sequels coming soon: The Hi Hi Man. The Cry Cry Man. The Lie Lie Man. The Sigh Sigh Man. The Pie Pie Man. The Zombie Fisherman Will Forever Know What You Did Last Summer, Man.
The movie had me thinking about that famous Beatles song: "You say bye bye, and I say bye bye. Bye bye, bye bye. I don't know why you say bye bye I say bye bye." Or whatever.
What if two ppl say "bye" once, and then a 3rd says "man"? Or better yet, what if they said " bye, bi-man " Name was too easy to trip over in regular conversation, they didn't think it through
@@TemmiePlays What if it's made up from parts of other words that sound the same, like if someone says "Celtic Woman's 6th album LullaBY, BY MANhattan Records"?
I personally always felt that the Bye Bye Man had potential. But it's clear the people who made it had zero ambitions to reach it. The Bye Bye Man doesn't do anything really throughout the movie, the logic of the characters and the story makes no sense, and it really does come off as a first draft of a story devoid of polish.
I very much like the idea of monsters with innocuous or innocent sounding names that turn out to be horrifying. Shame the filmmakers didn’t really try in that regard.
From what I saw, the story reeks of terrible adolescent fanfiction. It goes on and on about the Bye Bye Man's edgy tragic childhood and his gruesome pet made from the magically animated eyeballs and tongues of his victims, but there's no explanation of how he got his cringey name or powers.
The most unrealistic thing about this movie is the fact that a bunch of college students can afford to live in a house like that. (Unless they're renting it. The it's actually a bit too accurate.) After a $160k house gave me a concussion for having ceilings that are too low and a flooded basement, this house looks like a mansion in comparison. "Pfft. I don't care if this place is haunted by a serial killer. The stairs are actually made for human feet! I'm taking it!"
Yeah! I really wanted for you to review this mess! And THANK YOU for make an effort and try to compile the bits and pieces of mythology of the BBM, something no reviewer did, cause it gives a little more clarity of what they tried to do with the movie. Also, love the perm
So can the Bye Bye Man only get you if you know his name, or just that he exists? The widow seems alive because she didn't hear the name, but if that's the case, couldn't the characters tell people about Bye Bye Man by not calling him by his name? "There is something after us, and if you know his name, he will come after you too." Would that be safe to say since you don't specifically reference the name? Does only the English version of his name work at cursing people? If only knowing he exists is the problem, does that mean reading or hearing the name is fine so long as no one explains what the name belongs too and what it does? I have so many questions, and this film answers none of them. You learn more about Bye Bye Man by watching this review than you do from watching the film.
This is exactly why Joe Dante made fun of the rules of the Gremlins in Gremlins 2. The rules here are even stupider, at least there is a sense of logic behind most of the Gremlins rules.
This movie is so unrememberable that after my mom and I watched it, we completely forgot we had seen it and some months later started watching it again. We realized we had seen it when we saw the opening, the only kind of interesting part, and finally remembered that we had seen it before. But we still didn't remember most of the movie
So what's the logic of the Bye-Bye Man, if he even has any? He only kills people who know his name, yet if he does that he will make himself unknown and lack victims. And the movie never explains why he even kills people. Candyman or Freddy had a past, motivation, something, this guy just... exists.
just noticed the "search" brings up 0 "files" like he searched for it on his own computer instead of the internet, which brings up webpages instead of files.
I appreciate the acknowledgement of the IT miniseries given how much people tend to overlook it with the new films, despite those not handling certain elements as well as the series. Though it's not perfect I genuinely do think it's a better *adaptation* at least.
I went to Google to try to figure out why the heck this supernatural horror has a dog and came across an interview where the director talks about how they thought about putting the Bye Bye Man in a bowler hat. So, uh, picture that. I still don't know why he has a dog, but I did learn the dog was a Cane Corso named Nico who hated his costume. Poor pup, he wanted to escape the movie.
So they omitted one of the more crucial aspects of the OG story because they didn't wanna have to pay Hasbro? Why does _Hasbro_ of all companies own the rights for Ouija boards anyway??? Also even if they wanted things to be done cheap, there are other types of spirit boards they could've used. They didn't have to use a Ouija board. A piece of paper and a crystal pendulum is better than nothing
when i watched this movie for the first time, I felt so weird, confuesd and frustrated. just by the name and the first part of the movie, i already hated it. also one more thing, i hope we get more " old man reads creepypasta's" those were some good videos too.
sequel idea: the bye bye man takes manhattan... not a horror movie, just a film where he gets bored of killing and scaring and wanders around new york touristing... there's probably a scene where he befriends an adorable orphan and scares her bullies...
You know what's sad about this film for me? I watched it because I'm a Survivor fan, and I was a fan of the contestant, Johnathan Penner, and him and his wife Stacy Title worked on this together. And while it was still a trash movie, I can't say I regret it too much - because it ended up being the last thing they could work on together before his wife got ALS, and eventually could no longer work on other upcoming projects due to losing all mobility but her eyes in 2020. So, even though the movie isn't particularly good, that's not what's sad for me about it. It's that this was the final thing that this married film duo could ever make together before a tragic disease took that away.
The scene with the maggots in Kim's hair may be an homage to Dario Argento's classic thriller Susperia, where one of the girls at the dance school finds maggots in her hair because they're raining down from the floor above. Of course, that would require the makers of this movie to have actually seen Susperia, which would mean they might actually have a clue how to make a scary movie.
"I hate maggots. They're squishy, slimey, and irritating. And thry get everywhere. Not like you. You see, you, are clean and beautiful"
Best and worst way to flirt
Lol!
Thry?
Good, good... Now kill a bunch of children. That'll really seal the deal.
@@U014B Anakin told them about the Bye Bye Man
Wow this movie is like if Freddy Krueger had severe brain damage.
Freddy Durrr-eger?
Brain damaged Freddy Krueger who likes to ride on trains with his dog
@@MediaGhost_ Sounds like a Lifetime movie.
@@53subscribersnovideos35 A Nightmare murderer and his dog. Only on Lifetime
Maybe Bye Bye Man can resurrect Jason too, next, and realize what a dumb idea that was?
"The Bye Bye Man" is such an un-scary title, even variations on the same theme could be scarier:
-The Farewell Fellow
-The Toodleoo Tyrant
-The Catch Ya Later Creep
Then again, maybe they should have just titled this "Don't watch it, don't rent it".
Sayonara-San
I'd watch the toodleoo tyrant
@PestoMayo The Smell Ya Later Alligator
Anna Caldwell That sounds like a bad guy for a 70s kids show
The I’m out of here Sucker
"Doomsinger" is an excellent name and a wasted concept. Now imagine if instead of Bye Bye Man, the killer who only kills you if you know his name had the cool and catchy name of Doomsinger, and after killing people he always stole their eyes and tongues, then incorporated those into his body. He could also supernaturally mimic the voices of people whose tongues he's stolen!
You’ve seen dead silence haven’t you
@@burntgrahamcracker2866 Nope, I just tossed together ideas I picked up from watching this review of The Bye Bye Man (and I saw someone else review it a few years ago...I Hate Everything, I think?)
@@RoninCatholic oh well the tearing out tongues and gaining their voices is in dead silence.
A ventriloquist kills a child heckling her, gets murdered by the town she’s in and goes onto kill their descendants by ripping out their tongues when they scream because the town ripped hers out. The film was made by the guy behind saw
@@burntgrahamcracker2866 Interesting, never heard of it.
That sounds like a creature from Extreme Ghostbusters.
The sequel coming soon. "The hello hello man" if you DON'T think about him, he kills you.
The hi hi man! :D
I can't wait for the sequel: "The Return of Poo Poo Man"
You say goodbye, I say hello/ Hello, hello!
Poor Carrie-Anne Moss, reduced to this... but Faye Dunaway is also in this thing?
Pee pee poo poo man.
I think the Lamp from Amityville Horror 4 should team up with Bye Bye Man to pull hilarious pranks on people
yes XD
The two most useless horror villains, finally united.
The only reason he's called the Bye Bye Man is because you'll be saying "bye bye" to your money.
lol.
*He gon' make you go Bye-Bye!!*
...I sincerely hope that was the dramatic tagline.
The PooPoo PeePee man is a less silly name.
He'll pay you back in quarters.
and your dignity
🎶 Don't think it, don't say it! Pee Pee Maaaaan in Poo Poo Laaaaand! 🎶
The PeePeePooPoo man
This is what happens when you want to make a Ouija movie, Slenderman movie, a Beetlejuice movie in one film. And fail in all accounts.
I'm not sure where Beetlejuice enters it. The name thing? Based on that one trailer line, "your fear of him makes him real, gives him strength," I thought of it more like a Nightmare on Elm Street power source using a Candyman device. It kinda makes sense, they explored that a little in Freddy Vs Jason, but even that movie wasn't setting itself up for failure like this one is. It's pretty funny they leaned into the name thing, because they didn't have to make the name 'Bye Bye Man' a massive contrivance. What was stopping them from making a nonsense word, just like Ouija got its name, or leaving the name aside? It was a choice, and a terribly calculated one, to hinge the premise on no one knowing or saying aloud, "Bye bye, man!"
And also throw in the coins from Leperchaun, but don't remember to do anything with them. Are they toll for the train?
Don’t forget to throw in the costume of the Zombie Fisherman from that third I Know What You Did Last Summer movie.
Yeah, this movie was doomed from the start.
Exactly! It has "features" but no backstory!
@@MoonShadowWolfe it was probably just a random example of the "say their name three times and they appear" cliche to throw into the mix
"Stop trying to make the name bye bye man happen. It's not going to happen." - Regina George
The only thing I got out of this is that I want Wabuu socks
Same!
I wonder if Dingo Pictures would go after Phelous if he sold Wabuu socks?
@@mikekz4489 Yes, our favourite Dingo character, Warbug.
@@Rachub The predictive text seemed to bootleg Beast Wars toys in mind.
@Steven Hamner It would be interesting to see if someone came out of the woodwork to claim Wabuu.
This movie's bad CGI is the scariest thing about it.
dude, this setting and the mood threw me off on the start of the movie. you know it's bad when you start the movie and you already know something is wrong.
That demon dog looked like something out of a video game. The radioactive dogs in the 2003 Hulk movie looked more realistic by comparison.
@@michaelstrong5383 those dogs scared me as a kid.
@jbiehlable hehe
@jbiehlable this guy is like a discount homeless Freddy Krueger.
3:49
that woman was one of my acting professors at my university. Every time someone mentioned this movie she got really embarrassed. She occasionally gets two-three dollar royalty checks from doing it.
No autographing DVD covers?
@@dubuyajay9964 I thought about asking, but I think she might kill me
@@argondrolf785 But she'd get money. :(
Of all the wrestlers in the history of the WWF/WWE, you picked Mankind to dress up as for Halloween?
You got good taste, bro.
Although it would have been funny if he randomly switched to Dude Love and Cactus Jack throughout the video 😅
@@seanmatyas3938 that wouldve been Very Clever! eh theres always next year…
Me: I love the OG Star Wars Trilogy!
"You're too YOUNG to remember that!"
Me: Well can't argue with that.
I remember the OG Trilogy. Too bad they were the special editions.
Legitmately though sometimes my family says this to me as if it's impossible for me to like anything older than myself or know about it.
Still better than the Sequel Trilogy.
I watched the OG with some family friends who owned them on VHS. The SE trilogy came out a year later.
"But there ain't no plot.
Bye bye bye BYE MAN!"
That's my favorite joke in this video.
Dang it man. Its official you wrestling halloween champion of the world lmao
Too bad he’s going to lose it to HHH tomorrow on Raw.
Interesting to know that the silly named movie ACTUALLY had some neat ideas, a good story from the book...and they didn't use them well or at all. That would have required giving a shit.
The Bye Bye Man looks like he could be a Next Mutation villain.
That's an insult to Bonesteel.
Michelangelo: "Listen bros, we can't think or say The Bye Bye Man's name, otherwise, The Bye Bye Man will kill all of us."
Donatello: "But...you already said his name twice."
Michelangelo: "OOOOOOPS"
*MICHELANGELO IS BRAIN DEAD*
@@wstine79 You mean Bonesteel?
@@U014B that's right.
And don't forget the pointless, random cartoon sound effects as he stumbles around the sewers only to slip on a pizza! 🤣
The writers know that college isn't highschool, right? IRL the Professor probably wouldn't give a shit if someone looked at their phone for a minute or so.
Some of my instructors didn’t like having phones out during class but we were usually free to have them out before the session started
I always had instructors complaining about phones. They don't like it when no one in the room seems to be paying attention.
One professor claimed he'd drop you by a letter grade if he caught you with your phone too many times.
One of my professors would always use it as an excuse to call upon that person claiming that he thought they were looking up the answer.
I had a professor who refused to repeat anything during his lectures, which was bad, since his lessons were super boring and I have a short attention span, being autistic and all.
Ended up with a C overall for that class. Passed, but barely.
When I see "The Bye-Bye Man" all I can think of is Allison calling him the "Pee-Pee Poo-Poo Man" 😂😂
Don’t you mean “Ka Ka Pee Pee Man”
Link plz?
So Bye Bye man didn't really kill anyone. Everyone just killed themselves. Poor guy probably just wanted a friend.
Having the story not be real and all the murders turning out to be pointless would be a neat twist.
The Bye Bye Man is the dumbest title I've ever heard. You might as well call the next killer Goo-Goo-Ga-Ga Man.
At least he's not called I.M. Meen.
The Peepee Poopoo Man.
the Scat Man
yeah it's so not scary XD But I'm just glad i can watch the review
@@StonerWaifu _Go ahead. Say his name. You won’t be laughing when he kills you._
Q: How do you make the Bye-Bye Man even more pathetically embarrassing to someone?
A: Tell them it was also an adaptation of a better story.
I honestly can't even take the name seriously. The premise of a killer that will kill you if you say or even think their name could be creepy if done competently, but between the ridiculous name and stupid decisions the characters make it's just hard to get invested in.
Having the killer appear if you say their name three times is creepy, but there's no way of stopping people from thinking about something, it becomes too ridiculous at that point.
Not to mention, I am watching this review after I just saw 1992's Candyman for the first time last night, and that old horror film utilizes the premise far better.
Phelous reviewing a horror movie The Day Before Halloween dresses Mankind? I can safely assume that we'll all HAVE A NICE DAY!
If he uses the coins to lead you to his name the movie shouldve been him leading the mains to his real name, bc Bye Bye Man sounds like something a kid would come up with. The little girl shouldve seen him, made up that name when she mentions it to/gets asked something about whatever by the mains (bc they gotta find out somehow) and since its not his real name the mains throwing it around has no effect. They think the supernatural coin appearances are leading them to answers on how to beat/get rid of him but its just him leading them to their deaths. Or...something akin to that I dunno I just remember seeing ads for this and thinking a child would be who gave him that name.
Dang, why didn't they get you to write the movie? Anything probably would've been better than what they ended up with.
Yes, he appears during the movie and scares them, but it isn't until they find the information they think will get rid of him that he appears, his blank expression turns into a wide grin and then it turns into a shot of the house exterior while loud thumps and cracking noises occur before switching back to streaks of blood all over the interior.
There's a lot of things you can do with that idea.
The President's Vampire
Why the hell wasn't this made into a movie.
At least, instead of the Bye Bye Man.
Makes me think the President had something bigger than the secret service to kill. A vampire they must feed during their four years as president. If they refuse, those closest to them will be feed to the vampire instead!
@@hiddenflare6169 it’s was DIO
Out of fear that it will be called a rip off to Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
IKR!? Sounds MUCH BETTER! 🕵️♂️🧛♀️🧛♂️🕵️♀️
*PHELOUS HAS BECOME ...MANKIND*
Do you know the Bye Bye Man,
The Bye Bye Man, the Bye Bye Man?
Do you know the Bye Bye man?
He travels on a train.
But what are his policies regarding Gum drop buttons?
"All aboard the Contextless Expreeess!"
I hope this finds its way into day to day conversations.
This movie might have redeemed itself if at the end the Bye-Bye Man had revealed he only killed people who said his name because he didn't want others to know that there was someone around with such a stupid-ass name.
Horror Comedy?
The name would be better if they went with more of a childhood horror angle for the film itself.
Sort of like the Boogeyman movies? Well the first one at least.
Honestly kind of think it would work better if it went with the urban legends investigation plot similar to Candyman or the Blair Witch Project.
@@BigK13372 Found footage?
I always thought that "The Bye Bye Men" was the inofficial name of N'Sync.
I would love a horror movie about N'sync haunting people that sing their songs/know them
@@laorille robot chicken did a skit like that
@@TemmiePlays
What
@@fritzy8318 yeah with Joey Fatone avanging them
@PestoMayo
:(
I loved N*Sync.
“I love how the floors are not sound anymore and maybe we’ll fall to our deaths! What an adventure!”
I dunno phelous, I’m a fan and everything, but I feel like wandering around an old house with a dangerous floor is exactly your idea of a fun adventure
I mean...he has done it...multiple times. I love him for it, but still.
The BEST thing about this movie is an interview bit with the guy who plays the Bye Bye Man in which the cutest, bounciest squirrel ever really wants to be friends with him. The only place I've seen it is on the ralphthemoviemaker video (at 28.34). It's worth it.
Also: nice costume, sir.
i'm a little surprised to learn that "Bye Bye Man" was based on an older story--i was basically convinced that it was more "off-brand Slender Man" (never saw it myself and don't care to ever bother with it)
I'm sure the popularity of Slender Man influenced them buying Bye Bye Man's story for adaptation.
@@phelous an excellent point XD it's like that Asylum movie made to cash in on Marvel's Thor which they got around by using an older, public-domain comics character ALSO named Thor :P
"older" being 2005
@@pentelegomenon1175 yeah, i admit that i didn't bother to look up when it was actually made--the original cover art made me think it was much older :P i guess another way to put that would've been "was an adaptation of something"
Wait. So. A monster that comes for you when you know his name. That kinda reminds me of a Freakazoid episode. Where the bad guy would kidnap you if you said his name. I don't really remember much but I think it was Candlejack?
OH GODDA-
And he was never heard from again.
@@jsb6975.ah.crapbaskets Annoying Squib is soooooo stoopid! Heh heh heh heh heh! 🦝
Phelous is looking like he's in the mood for Chef Boyardee Overstuffed beef ravioli.
Ravioli, Ravioli, Give me the Fourmu-oli!
MMMMM! BEEFY!
It's a ravioli...for all mankind!
@@ToruKun1 All Bye Bye Man-kind!
I know where the fire in the house in the end came from: Bye Bye Man is actually set in Foodfight's universe, where your home destroys itself when you die. It also explains Bye Bye Man's dumb name, he's actually a product mascot.
Also, glad to see a new ""horror"" movie review from you, especially if it's Don't Say It, Don't Spray It; keep up the good form!
The sickening thing about this is the movie made more than three times its budget back. But the horrific part of this is that the studio paid almost seven and a half million dollars to make it.
I could do with seven and a half million dollars. Hell, I could do with just half a million dollars.
Horror movies seem to be the go-to lowest possible budget for guaranteed returns genre, besides christian films of course.
@@Boltscrap Yes... (although twenty, twenty-five years ago 7.5 million wouldn't really be *that* low budget. Maybe on the line). But really, what I'm so mad about here is there's so little care, no *enthusiasm*, went into making this movie, when you could have given half that money to any fresh-faced film grad for their dream project, and the rest to needy people, and at least gotten to feel good about helping needy people out of it. And maybe something interesting from the film grad.
That Mick Foley impression was spot on! Also it's always nice seeing you review a Horror Movie once again. :)
Sequels coming soon:
The Hi Hi Man.
The Cry Cry Man.
The Lie Lie Man.
The Sigh Sigh Man.
The Pie Pie Man.
The Zombie Fisherman Will Forever Know What You Did Last Summer, Man.
Also a prequel titled, The Poo Poo Man.
The Why Why Man.
Don't forget The Old Old Man, who when he falls in water, becomes DOUBLE useless.
@@windowsVD directed by James Rolfe
Seems the Bye Bye Man’s got his own hype train going.
The movie had me thinking about that famous Beatles song: "You say bye bye, and I say bye bye. Bye bye, bye bye. I don't know why you say bye bye I say bye bye." Or whatever.
The Bye Bye Man can, 'cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good.
"Whelp, time to draw Wabuu on a sock."
Phelous's mankind impression is pretty spot on
At least the Quebec French title ("Ne dis rien", meaning "Say nothing") is easier to take seriously.
Speaking of Quebec and Canada, who else would have distributed this piece of Doo Doo Man here than VVS.
They are my personal LJN.
Mmm interesting
Ah man, Mick Foley reviewing a horror film? What a treat! I wonder where Phelous is ;)
Probably holding the camera.
🤣
so wait: if you said "Bye Bye, man" to a friend, would you be haunted by him? why isn't this freak spread like a viral video then?
What if two ppl say "bye" once, and then a 3rd says "man"?
Or better yet, what if they said " bye, bi-man "
Name was too easy to trip over in regular conversation, they didn't think it through
@@TemmiePlays What if it's made up from parts of other words that sound the same, like if someone says "Celtic Woman's 6th album LullaBY, BY MANhattan Records"?
@@pentelegomenon1175 the hole gets deeper, this is why Rumpelstiltskin had such a bizarre name
@crcoghill Look, he's trying his best. He's only one man trying to support his demon companion, give him a break!
This whole film is a joke. And I'm not laughing.
Even the Movie name is a joke about how people will usually said "Bye bye, man." whenever someone offer you to watch this movie.
He was not laughing.
The use of Ghostbusters clips whenever someone goes into an abandoned building is still hilarious
I personally always felt that the Bye Bye Man had potential. But it's clear the people who made it had zero ambitions to reach it. The Bye Bye Man doesn't do anything really throughout the movie, the logic of the characters and the story makes no sense, and it really does come off as a first draft of a story devoid of polish.
absolutely agree! it had such big unfulfilled potential - just like the Slender Man movie.
I very much like the idea of monsters with innocuous or innocent sounding names that turn out to be horrifying. Shame the filmmakers didn’t really try in that regard.
The more people say bye bye man the dumber it sounds
From what I saw, the story reeks of terrible adolescent fanfiction. It goes on and on about the Bye Bye Man's edgy tragic childhood and his gruesome pet made from the magically animated eyeballs and tongues of his victims, but there's no explanation of how he got his cringey name or powers.
@jbiehlable 100% Wolf?
The ransome card gag really got me 🤣
The PeePee PooPoo Man
Was thinking the exact same
HE EAT DE POOPOO
"Say his name. You won't be laughing when he kills you."
@@RoninCatholic I eat da poo poo like ice cream becuz I have no MAH-ney. That's what I eat for dinter every night
The most unrealistic thing about this movie is the fact that a bunch of college students can afford to live in a house like that. (Unless they're renting it. The it's actually a bit too accurate.)
After a $160k house gave me a concussion for having ceilings that are too low and a flooded basement, this house looks like a mansion in comparison. "Pfft. I don't care if this place is haunted by a serial killer. The stairs are actually made for human feet! I'm taking it!"
It is a rental.
Most of these January horror films are SOOOOOOOOO STUPID.
Its why they are released in January. Usually they are low budget and they expect them to fail.
"I love blood, but not the CGI kind, now give me YOURS! Sincerely, Blood Bush"
Shame on Leigh Whannel for staring in this piss stain. He should have known better.
It’s an insult to my birth month as someone who loves horror. I never get to see anything good for my birthday lol
January is the worst month for movies
“Don’t say it, Don’t pee it!”
Me on the toilet: Oh boy.
don't say it, don't spray it
Me: 'Out in the snow, realized I wrote 'bye bye man' in yellow' DANGIT NOT AGAIN!
11:38- And she was in the movie Terrifier, which is far more scary than this rejected episode of Goosebumps.
My headcanon is that Bye-Bye Man is the loser cousin of Candyman who desperately wants to mimic his success
Love the Mankind costume. Also cool seeing a belt with the WWF logo on it instead of the WWE one.
Yeah, changing the name and logo was a mistake. I swear, just give donations to the other WWF and call it a day!
I love the mick foley impression and mankind getup so perfectly spot on 👍 keep up being super phelous ❤️
Yeah! I really wanted for you to review this mess! And THANK YOU for make an effort and try to compile the bits and pieces of mythology of the BBM, something no reviewer did, cause it gives a little more clarity of what they tried to do with the movie.
Also, love the perm
Happy Halloweenie!
the Toilet Man joke should've been "Don't Piss It, Don't Spray It"
So can the Bye Bye Man only get you if you know his name, or just that he exists? The widow seems alive because she didn't hear the name, but if that's the case, couldn't the characters tell people about Bye Bye Man by not calling him by his name? "There is something after us, and if you know his name, he will come after you too." Would that be safe to say since you don't specifically reference the name? Does only the English version of his name work at cursing people? If only knowing he exists is the problem, does that mean reading or hearing the name is fine so long as no one explains what the name belongs too and what it does?
I have so many questions, and this film answers none of them. You learn more about Bye Bye Man by watching this review than you do from watching the film.
This is exactly why Joe Dante made fun of the rules of the Gremlins in Gremlins 2. The rules here are even stupider, at least there is a sense of logic behind most of the Gremlins rules.
And you've put more thought into this premise than the director, the producers, and the script writers combined.
At least it's very busy now.
This movie is so unrememberable that after my mom and I watched it, we completely forgot we had seen it and some months later started watching it again. We realized we had seen it when we saw the opening, the only kind of interesting part, and finally remembered that we had seen it before. But we still didn't remember most of the movie
So what's the logic of the Bye-Bye Man, if he even has any? He only kills people who know his name, yet if he does that he will make himself unknown and lack victims. And the movie never explains why he even kills people. Candyman or Freddy had a past, motivation, something, this guy just... exists.
Bye Bye Man Bye Bye Man does whatever Bye Bye can. 15:18 this would be creepier without the dog sound, but this movie is dumb, so...
I like the noise. But it is pretty stock.
just noticed the "search" brings up 0 "files" like he searched for it on his own computer instead of the internet, which brings up webpages instead of files.
This was the movie that made Ralph snap. Truly, a movie among movie.
I appreciate the acknowledgement of the IT miniseries given how much people tend to overlook it with the new films, despite those not handling certain elements as well as the series. Though it's not perfect I genuinely do think it's a better *adaptation* at least.
This movie is like the director half-remembered a 3am cable screening of CANDYMAN from five years ago.
a phelan horror review, what a nice treat to have after a shitty day.
13:54 holy hell dead kennedys shirt
I went to Google to try to figure out why the heck this supernatural horror has a dog and came across an interview where the director talks about how they thought about putting the Bye Bye Man in a bowler hat. So, uh, picture that.
I still don't know why he has a dog, but I did learn the dog was a Cane Corso named Nico who hated his costume. Poor pup, he wanted to escape the movie.
I'm amused by how matter-of-factly Phelous is talking about something called "The Bye Bye Man."
So they omitted one of the more crucial aspects of the OG story because they didn't wanna have to pay Hasbro? Why does _Hasbro_ of all companies own the rights for Ouija boards anyway???
Also even if they wanted things to be done cheap, there are other types of spirit boards they could've used. They didn't have to use a Ouija board. A piece of paper and a crystal pendulum is better than nothing
when i watched this movie for the first time, I felt so weird, confuesd and frustrated. just by the name and the first part of the movie, i already hated it. also one more thing, i hope we get more " old man reads creepypasta's" those were some good videos too.
sequel idea: the bye bye man takes manhattan... not a horror movie, just a film where he gets bored of killing and scaring and wanders around new york touristing... there's probably a scene where he befriends an adorable orphan and scares her bullies...
That search engine must have gotten wet.
We need Lucy from Dingo Pictures saying “Bye Bye” to Mrs McDonald to be a real Phelous review!!
Holy ish phelous could play a helluva mankind in a biopic
This just makes me think of when they took the genuinely-creepy la llorona folklore and just made a shitty Conjuring spinoff on it!
Then she got a bad film too. D:
I recommend you covering “Truth or Dare.” It tries WAY to hard to scare its audience 😂
I love this channel it's so underrated I wish more people knew about it 😔
Me too mate, me too
This is one of my favorite videos and I come back to it every year. I love the Mankind bits
1:31 yes yes, bye bye!
Admittedly I clicked on the video as quickly as I did only because I saw Mankind in the thumbnail 😂
You know what's sad about this film for me? I watched it because I'm a Survivor fan, and I was a fan of the contestant, Johnathan Penner, and him and his wife Stacy Title worked on this together. And while it was still a trash movie, I can't say I regret it too much - because it ended up being the last thing they could work on together before his wife got ALS, and eventually could no longer work on other upcoming projects due to losing all mobility but her eyes in 2020. So, even though the movie isn't particularly good, that's not what's sad for me about it. It's that this was the final thing that this married film duo could ever make together before a tragic disease took that away.
A Phelous horror review? I always appreciate these. Love the Dingo reviews and Bootleg Zones but I definitely miss when these were more the norm.
Happy all hallows eve to all and all a spooky one.
This was the icing on the cupcake, really ripped the bye bye a new one Phelous.
Mankind! 🤣🔥
I am so happy that you drew Wabuu on your glove. That made my day lol!
🎵Don't think it, don't say it, Bye Bye Man, La La Land🎵
Mankind is such a great character. I don’t blame Phelous for looking for any reason to cosplay as him. have a nice day. Bang bang!
Owwww, have mercy, Phelous. This review was a real BANG BANG.
Damn good Mankind impression,Phelan
Have a nice day!
I'm in love with your cosplay it's absolutely ON POINT!
The scene with the maggots in Kim's hair may be an homage to Dario Argento's classic thriller Susperia, where one of the girls at the dance school finds maggots in her hair because they're raining down from the floor above. Of course, that would require the makers of this movie to have actually seen Susperia, which would mean they might actually have a clue how to make a scary movie.