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Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Douglas Smith, Lucien Laviscount, Cressida Bonas, Doug Jones, Michael Trucco, Jenna Kanell, Erica Tremblay, Marisa Echeverria |
Director |
Stacy Title |
Screenplay | Jonathan Penner, from the book by Robert Damon Schneck |
Music | The Newton Brothers |
Cinematography | James Kniest |
Editing | Ken Blackwell |
Soundtrack | Available |
Made in | 2017 |
Produced by | Intrepid Pictures, Los Angeles Media Fund |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report | CommonSenseMedia Report
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Genre | Horror |
Language | Low to mild, infrequent |
Nudity | Low, isolated incident |
Sex | None |
Violence | Strong, frequent |
Prejudice | None |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | None |
Comments | |
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PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned | Rated PG-13 for terror, horror violence, bloody images, sexual content, thematic elements, partial nudity, some language and teen drinking |
Runtime | 96 |
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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Frightening / Tense Scenes |
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Tense Family Scenes |
Music (Scary/Tense) |
Music (Inappropriate) |
Topics to talk about |
Suggested age limit 15 + |
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Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Justin Lowe 'Bye Bye Man' seems dead set on a sequel. | 5 | |
Cape Times Unknown | 5 | |
ScreenIt T. Durgin I’m sure more than a few will be writing something like ’’Don’t say it! Don’t think it! Don’t see it!’’ I’d just rather wave this flick ’’Bye bye.’’ | 5 | |
Metacritic.com 22 critics | 7 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 61 critics | 7 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The Bye Bye Man clumsily mashes together elements from better horror films, adding up to a derivative effort as short on originality as it is on narrative coherency or satisfying scares. | 5 | |
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics | 6 | |
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Laughably terrible horror movie has violence, sex. | 2 | |
What the People say | ||
Metacritic.com users 27 users | 6 | |
Rottentomatoes users 5633 users | 8 | |
Internet 2437 Netizens Say bye bye to decent horror films | 8 | |
Average .. 29% | 6 |