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.

The film stars Douglas Smith, Lucien Laviscount, Cressida Bonas, Doug Jones, Carrie-Anne Moss, Faye Dunaway, and Jenna Kanell.

In present day, Elliot, his girlfriend, Sasha, and his friend, John, move into a house near their college.

While riding home, Alice reveals she found the coins from the nightstand, along with the writing, but she could not read it in the dark.

Jonathan Penner adapted the script from "The Bridge to Body Island",[7] a chapter in Robert Damon Schneck's non-fiction book The President's Vampire (Anomalist Books 2005; later retitled The Bye-Bye Man and Other Strange-But-True Tales when reprinted by Penguin-Random House in 2016.

The group of friends claimed they began experiencing strange events after they received this story from the Ouija board.

Stacy Title directed the film, which Intrepid Pictures produced, with its founder Trevor Macy.

Sony Classical Records has released the soundtrack featuring a song performance by the composers and Richard Patrick.

[2] In North America, the film was released alongside the openings of Monster Trucks and Sleepless, as well as the wide releases of Silence, Patriots Day, and Live by Night, and was expected to gross around $10 million from 2,220 theaters in its opening weekend.

Club said, "on top of the general hoariness, this is also an uncommonly, at times unbelievably inept movie; from its acting to its script to most of its technical aspects, it feels barely fit for the big screen.

[22] Jake Dee for JoBlo.com said "in a room full of 200 or so public patrons, the film drew far more auditory laughs than terrified gasps," and awarded it a 3/10 rating.