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The Bye Bye Man is a 2017 American supernatural horror film directed by Stacy Title (in her final directed film before her death) and written by Jonathan Penner, based on the chapter "The Bridge to Body Island" in Robert Damon Schneck's book The President's Vampire.
- What Inspired The Horror Movie?
- How Did Author/Historian Robert Damon Schneck Learn About The Bye Bye Man?
- Who Is Author Robert Damon Schneck?
- Did The Bye Bye Man True Story Involve Three Friends?
- Did The True Story Involve A Ouija Board?
- Supposedly Who Was The Real Bye Bye Man?
- Is There A Love Triangle in The Real Bye Bye Man Story?
- Are The Deaths and Violence in The Movie Based on The Alleged True Story?
- Does Author Robert Damon Schneck Claim He Has Verified The Story?
- Who Plays The Bye Bye Man in The Movie?
The Bye Bye Man is based on a short story by Robert Damon Schneck. It is included in his compilation The Bye Bye Man: And Other Strange-but-True Tales, which was originally published in 2005 under the title The President's Vampire: Strange-but-True Tales of the United States of America. In the original book, the Bye Bye Man was featured in the chap...
Schneck claims to have heard the real story from a close friend named Eli at his Devil's Night party (the night before Halloween). Eli would invite all the guests who've had a spooky or paranormal experience to tell their story. He would then tell his own scary story last. That year, Eli, who had a degree in cultural anthropology and folklore, told...
Schneck is a folklorist and strange history expert. He makes a living writing about the weird and the unexplained, authoring works on everything from suicide clubs to killer clowns. According to the description on Amazon.com, he wrote most of the book that became The Bye Bye Man: And Other Strange-but-True Taleswhile sitting at his favorite table a...
Yes. Like in the movie, the short story found in Robert Damon Schneck's book supposedly happened to his friend, Eli, a Wisconsin graduate student who was living with his girlfriend Katherine and a friend named Jonathan. For the movie, Katherine's name was changed to Sasha. The author claims to have gotten releases from all three individuals for the...
Yes, according to the short story, someone had found an old Ouija board in an attic and gave it to the three friends who had been living together. The friends began conducting experiments with the board, and after they believed they had communicated with a number of spirits, they made an effort to contact a spirit that had actually lived. After a f...
According to the author, the actual Bye Bye Man had supposedly been a blind albino born in Louisiana sometime in the 1920s. His parents put him in an orphanage in Algiers, New Orleans. Shunned, the boy eventually escaped the orphanage and turned to murder. Jumping on trains and traveling like a hobo to get around, he was accompanied by his companio...
Yes, but in the supposed true story, Eli and his girlfriend Katherine break up first, and soon after the break-up, she begins to date their friend and former roommate Jonathan. In the movie, Elliot (Douglas Smith) suspects that his girlfriend Sasha (Cressida Bonas) is cheating on him with John (Lucien Laviscount).
No. Not surprisingly, the movie exaggerates the killing. In the short story told by author Schneck, no one gets hit by a train or a car, and the three friends don't kill each other or themselves. It's told as more of an eerie tale rather than all-out horror.
No. "I did research and I was unable to verify any of the story," says Schneck of the Bye Bye Man tale that he says was told to him by a friend.
The Bye Bye Man is portrayed by actor Doug Jones. The 6' 3½" actor has portrayed similar masked characters, having previously played one of the Gentlemen in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Abe Sapien in Hellboy (2004), and the Pale Man in 2006's Pan's Labyrinth(pictured below). The multi-talented actor also has experience performing as a mi...
The Bye Bye Man: Directed by Stacy Title. With Douglas Smith, Lucien Laviscount, Cressida Bonas, Doug Jones. Three friends stumble upon the horrific origins of a mysterious figure they discover is the root cause of the evil behind unspeakable acts.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Stacy Title
- 2017-01-13
When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover its name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.
Jan 14, 2017 · When they asked where the Bye-Bye Man was now, the board said he was in Chicago…and coming closer. Read about the the strange encounters that ensued, as well as the research to uncover the truth behind the story in The Bye Bye Man: And Other Strange-But-True Tales.
Jan 13, 2017 · Apparently, the Bye Bye Man is a malevolent spirit that can be summoned simply by speaking his name only once—when that happens, it gets into your mind and causes its victims to see things that aren’t really there as a way of driving them to madness and murder.
When three college friends stumble upon the horrific origins of the Bye Bye Man, they discover that there is only one way to avoid his curse: don't think it, don't say it.
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- Horror, Mystery & Thriller
- PG-13
