The horror genre is at its golden age, there is no dearth of horror films that continue to hark back to clichés and rehash already overused formulas. The curiously named The Bye Bye Man is unfortunately one of those films. Not only is the film tedious and hackneyed, it’s also not the least bit scary. So here we have a prologue where a mass murder takes place in the 60’s. The killer, right before offing his victims tells them ‘Don’t say, don’t think it’. In the present day Elliot ( Douglas Smith) , his girlfriend Sasha ( Cressida Bonas) , and their friend John ( Lucien Laviscount) move into a house that seems to be in the same neighborhood where the murders took place. The clichés come running in as strange things begin to
