Milk & Serial (2024)
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Two pranksters' escalating game of deception spirals into a deadly and uncontrollable situation.
The story
Best friends and roommates Marshall "Milk" and Steve "Seven" run a prank channel together on YouTube. Before Milk's birthday party at their apartment, Seven films himself buying a gun and blanks to prank him. The film follows the two pranksters as they attempt to prank each other, but the situation begins to spiral out of control. During a party attended by several friends, a series of events involving a neighbor and a staged shooting lead to a tense atmosphere. The pranksters' dynamic is tested as the line between a staged joke and a real-life crisis becomes increasingly blurred.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Best friends and roommates Marshall "Milk" and Steve "Seven" run a YouTube prank channel. Before Milk's birthday, Seven buys a gun and blanks for a prank. During a party, a staged shooting with a blank occurs, and they encounter a neighbor, Greg. Later, they find Greg in a state of distress. During a dinner with Greg, he appears to drug them before they are taken to a desert. After Seven shoots Greg in self-defense, Milk reveals it was a prank with a hired actor, but Greg is actually dead. It is then revealed that Milk orchestrated the entire situation, including swapping blanks for real bullets, to frame Seven for murder out of jealousy over Seven's popularity. Milk then gaslights Seven and eventually kills another woman, Lara. After a confrontation with Greg's son, Frank, they lie about Greg's whereabouts. Finally, Milk admits to the camera that he wants to be remembered as a creative serial killer, and Seven shoots Milk. The film ends with a final gunshot.
- First release year
- 2024
- Runtime (minutes)
- 62
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Curry Barker
- Writers
- Curry Barker · writer
- Cast and characters
- Curry Barker · Marshall / Milk; Cooper Tomlinson · Steven / Seven; Adlih Alvarado · Naomi; Sterling L. Pope · Link; Jonnathon Cripple · Greg; John Simmonds · Frank; Gloria Karel · Lara; Andy Dubitsky · Arms Dealer; Tristan Welsh · Jason; Paul Santoli · Paul; Rob Harrow · Cop
- Genres
- found footage horror
- Themes
- pranks; jealousy; gaslighting; serial killers
- Tone and mood
- disturbing
- Setting
- An apartment and a remote desert in the United States.
- Premise and plot tags
- found footage; psychopaths and sociopaths
- Reception
- The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its story, performances, and editing.
- Production trivia
- The film was made on a budget of $800.; The original runtime was 80 minutes but was trimmed to 62 minutes for YouTube.; The creators are a comedy duo from the YouTube channel 'that's a bad idea'.
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