‘There’s a girl in my head, I was never supposed to be a man…’
While the failure of blockbusters like The Fall Guy resulted in lots of doom-laden think pieces lamenting the death of cinema, other areas are opening up for budding filmmakers. It was a series of YouTube videos that led to the Philippou brothers directing Talk to Me. Similarly, Skinamarink started out as a series of menacing short films. The latest YouTube movie to cause a stir is Milk & Serial – the now viral found footage horror movie. And it’s great…
Milk (Curry Baker) and his friend Seven (Cooper Tomlinson) are best friends and online pranksters who broadcast their various hi-jinks online for the world to see. Filmed entirely on handheld cameras, Milk & Serial explores what happens when a prank goes too far.
It’s such a devilishly simple concept that it’s genuinely surprising nobody has ploughed this furrow before. YouTube pranksters have been around for a while now, and they are ripe for the picking cinematically, being as they are a morally dubious bunch. Baker, who also writes and directs, is eerily convincing in the titular role, in a performance that recalls Mark Duplass in that other great 21st-century found-footage movie Creep.
At only 62 minutes, Milk & Serial is essential viewing for horror fans and it also marks the debut of an exciting new talent on the scene. Watch the movie for free here.
