Milk & Serial is a 2024 found footage horror film directed by Curry Barker, and the cast includes Curry Barker, Cooper Tomlinson, Adlih Alvarado, Jonnathon Cripple, Gloria Karel, Sterling L. Pope, Paul Santoli, John Simmonds and Tristan Welsh.
Milk & Serial is a one hour horror movie that has been freely released on Youtube for anyone to watch, oh it was all done on a $800 budget as well.
It is the first feature film by the creative duo Curry Barker and Cooper Tomlinson, who run That's a Bad Idea, a popular YouTube sketch channel, and they have done some horror shorts before, and the channel is well worth some of your time.
The story follows two friends, Seven and Milk, who are part of a social media team known for pranking others and each other. Seven is planning a prank on Milk for his birthday, involving a gun with blank bullets to give him a good scare, but there's more to the story than meets the eye.
You can watch the full movie below:
I gave this one a watch last night, and despite YouTubes usual dreadful bitrate meaning the picture quality is not the best, I found it to be quite creepy and disturbing.
While not overly original, it held my attention to the end, and despite a slow start, really picks up half way through, and despite being a debut low budget feature, even the acting isn't that bad either, which surprised me and I can understand why it is getting so much attention.
I think I liked just how simple it was too, and it felt quite authentic and I enjoyed Milk as a character, as that damn smile was creepy, and Curry Barker's performance was excellent, breathing a lot of intrigue into every time he was on screen as Milk.
At just an hour or so long, the film never outstays its welcome either, and even though it does start slowly, once it gets going, it becomes quite interesting and the time goes pretty quickly, and the plot moves along nicely with some twists and turns thrown in along the way.
I don't want to say too much as you need to go into this one blind, but I do recommend you give it a watch above as it might just be the start of something for the duo, with a bigger budget and better production, I would love to see what they could do.
And found footage movies are hard to pull off well and feel different, but this one managed it for me and it deserves a lot of credit, as this duo have a lot of potential and I am sure we will be hearing more about them in the future, and in particular, Curry Barker, who wrote, directed and shot it all.
It certainly isn't the worst 2024 horror film I have seen!
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