This Critically Hated Horror Movie Was Written By A Survivor Contestant

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Hollywood is a strange place and some of the more interesting figures rack up half a dozen job titles in popular properties. Jonathan Penner, for example, is a character actor with appearances on various beloved film and TV projects, a three-time contestant on an iconic reality show, and the screenwriter of one of the worst horror films ever made.

Penner's screenwriting output comprises two features and one TV movie, each of which he collaborated on in some way with his late wife Stacy Title. Title directed the duo's first theatrical release, The Bye Bye Man in 2017, to mild financial success and overwhelming critical derision.

This Underrated Horror Movie Suffered From Bad Timing

The Bye Bye Man is an adaptation of a single chapter from Robert Damon Schneck's 2005 novel The President's Vampire. Even though the story «The Bridge to Body Island» is an allegedly true story that takes up a couple of dozen pages of an anthology, it manages to be much more complete than the film. The 2017 film tells the story of a trio of college roommates who move into a new home and discover hints towards a dark secret. The villain of the piece, the hilariously titular Bye Bye Man, hunts and kills any person who has heard or seen his name. He is unstoppable, capable of teleportation and casting illusion, and can apparently override his victims' free will. Anyone who hears his name is a target, anyone that says it summons him, and the idea will theoretically destroy the world if allowed to spread. This already weak concept is dragged down by terrible acting, abysmal cinematography, constant lazy jump scares, and a complete lack of purpose.

The eponymous scary gentleman is not explored much in the film, all the film really tells the audience is