{"id":17011,"date":"2019-10-30T12:51:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T17:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=17011"},"modified":"2019-11-06T11:05:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T17:05:52","slug":"madison-movies-bye-bye-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/madison-movies-bye-bye-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror flick &#8216;The Bye Bye Man&#8217; is bad, but also a Madison story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no logical reason for <em>The Bye Bye Man <\/em>to exist.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4030600\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 horror flick<\/a> is a sloppily written, poorly acted garbage fire. It\u2019s insultingly stupid and the 85-minute runtime feels like an eternity. <em>The Bye Bye Man<\/em> is not just a bad horror movie, which can sometimes be a good thing. (See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0xD8AE8ZcpA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Leprechaun<\/em><\/a>, starring a pre-<em>Friends <\/em>Jennifer Aniston.) It\u2019s just a bad movie. It sucks.<\/p>\n<p>But it is also set in the Madison area, which is a strange story unto itself. <em>The Bye Bye Man<\/em> was not filmed here, mind you, but it is Madison-adjacent. So I watched it on Netflix, and it\u2019s something I will regret until the day I die.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Bye Bye Man Official Trailer 1 (2017) - Horror Movie\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZGdOnCiQRpQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>\u201cDon\u2019t think it. Don\u2019t say it.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p><em>The Bye Bye Man<\/em> opens in 1969 Madison, and a man commits a spree killing. He frantically asks his neighbors \u201cwho they told\u201d before shooting them. All the while, he\u2019s repeating the phrase, \u201cDon\u2019t think it. Don\u2019t say it.\u201d This is a legitimately tense scene that unfortunately did not set the tone for the remainder of the film. Once <em>The Bye Bye Man <\/em>moves to the present, it promptly careens off the rails.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re soon introduced to our three unlikable leads: Elliot, Sasha and John. They are students at fictional Buchanan Williams University, and they\u2019ve rented a house in Sun Prairie. Soon they discover a spooky dresser that has the name \u201cThe Bye Bye Man\u201d carved inside. Despite psychotically scratched warnings not to do, Elliot says \u201cThe Bye Bye Man\u201d aloud and puts his pals in mortal danger. You\u2019ve seen horror movies before, so you know what happens next.<\/p>\n<p>But seriously: \u201cThe Bye Bye Man\u201d? That\u2019s the name they came up with? It sounds like a character from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bz7tTdwEL1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Tim Robinson sketch<\/a>. There\u2019s a point in the movie when Elliot types \u201cthe Bye Bye Man\u201d into a search bar and it made laugh so hard I cried. For a long time, it was a running joke in our house. If my partner and I couldn\u2019t figure out what to watch on Netflix, one of us would ultimately joke \u201clet\u2019s watch <em>The Bye Bye Man<\/em>,\u201d because it\u2019s the stupidest fucking name in the history of pop culture. And then we actually watched <em>The Bye Bye Man<\/em>, and it was even worse than I imagined.<\/p>\n<p>(One compliment is the Cleveland, Ohio area did a solid job stepping in for Madison. There were times when I had to check to see if they didn\u2019t film at least <em>a couple of<\/em> scenes here.)<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ByeByeMan2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ByeByeMan2.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ByeByeMan2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ByeByeMan2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ByeByeMan2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ByeByeMan2-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ByeByeMan2-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>\u201cThe Bridge to Body Island\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>One of the more infuriating things about <em>The Bye Bye Man<\/em> is that we never really find out what The Bye Bye Man\u2019s deal is. He\u2019s never explained, his mythology is convoluted, and he\u2019s super into making people dream about trains. But why?<\/p>\n<p><em>The Bye Bye Man<\/em> is actually based on a story called \u201cThe Bridge to Body Island\u201d (way better name), which is part of a larger collection of urban legends called <em>The President\u2019s Vampire<\/em>. Author Robert Damon Schenck penned it based on a supposed firsthand account that took place in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/ct\/entertainment\/movies\/horror-movie-the-bye-bye-man-inspired-by-a-sun\/article_d8844ecb-18a7-5d5a-a1ab-d8b13c10fe79.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In the summer of 1990<\/a>, three friends were working at a group home in Sun Prairie and started playing around with a Ouija board. Bad idea. It wasn\u2019t long before they crossed paths with a vengeful spirit called \u201cThe Bye Bye Man,\u201d a blind, psychic lunatic with a seeing-eye dog named \u201cGloomsinger\u201d that he made out of dismembered body parts. He rides the rails around the country, leaving a trail of carnage wherever anyone learns his name. And after learning about him, the friends began experiencing strange visions and unsettling happenings.<\/p>\n<p>One of them heard phantom voices in a boarding house overlooking Lake Mendota. Another experienced inhuman sounds while crossing the bridge to Wausau\u2019s Barker Stewart Island, aka \u201cBody Island.\u201d The macabre name came from the frequency in which <a href=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/10-strange-details-we-learned-about-the-true-story-of-the-bye-bye-man-f8e1d8840aa1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drowned lumberjacks<\/a> would wash up on its shores. The story is actually much spookier than the film, which again is total dog shit.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17024\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17024\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PicnicPoint1898.jpg\" alt=\"Picnic Point, 1898\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PicnicPoint1898.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PicnicPoint1898-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PicnicPoint1898-768x600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/PicnicPoint1898-1024x800.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2016799260\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Library of Congress<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>The ghosts of Picnic Point<\/h2>\n<p>If anything, <em>The Bye Bye Man<\/em> does raise an important question: What is the best Madison ghost story? There are tons to choose from, including hauntings at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel3000.com\/madison-magazine\/city-life\/madison-s-mysterious-tales-and-oddities\/1122912488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Majestic and the Great Dane<\/a>. But if there was one location in the city worth exploring, I\u2019d say it\u2019s Picnic Point.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to its made-for-a-horror-movie name, it does have a somewhat unsettling history. One story involves the <a href=\"http:\/\/hauntedmadison.com\/?p=313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suicide of August Kutzbach<\/a>. He was a celebrated architect working on the State Capitol but became distraught after his designs for the original dome were rejected. In 1868, Kutzbach drowned himself off of Picnic Point. Throughout the years, people have reported strange lights that float out over the lake and towards the Capitol. Some believe this is Kutzbach\u2019s unquiet spirit trying to get another look at his life\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>August Kutzbach isn\u2019t the only otherworldly entity occupying Picnic Point. It was rumored that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel3000.com\/madison-magazine\/city-life\/madison-s-mysterious-tales-and-oddities\/1122912488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coven of witches<\/a> once occupied the area, luring children in the woods and fattening them up to eat. But their reign of terror was ended by an indigenous spirit named \u201cEarthmaker,\u201d who punished the witches by turning them into hackberry trees. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TwJaELXadKo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Just like Captain Planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These Picnic Point tales are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Madison lore. There are tons of other fascinating stories, and they are all better than <em>The Bye Bye Man<\/em>. Anything is better than <em>The Bye Bye Man<\/em>. To paraphrase the film itself, \u201cDon\u2019t think it, don\u2019t say it, don\u2019t watch it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no logical reason for The Bye Bye Man to exist. The 2017 horror flick is a sloppily written, poorly acted garbage fire. It\u2019s insultingly stupid and the 85-minute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":17018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5155],"tags":[19,377,3341,6608,11131,4480,11130],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.3 (Yoast SEO v18.5.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;The Bye Bye Man&#039; is bad, but also a Madison story - The Bozho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This 2017 horror flick was not filmed here, mind you, but it is Madison-adjacent. 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