SPOILER ALERT: This article contains minor spoilers for “Milk & Serial ,” now available to watch on YouTube. Curry Barker has delivered the year’s most unlikely hit. The filmmaker and comedian is the mastermind behind “Milk & Serial,” a 62-minute horror feature about YouTube pranksters who get caught up in some rapidly escalating crises that ideally aren’t spoiled in advance.
Made for only $800, the film co-stars Barker and his comedy partner, Cooper Tomlinson, who is also a producer. The duo mainly posts sketch videos to their TikTok and YouTube channels “that’s a bad idea,” while occasionally showcasing other projects, like Barker’s viral 2023 horror short “The Chair,” which has been watched on the latter more than 5.5 million times.
After considering working with a distributor for “Milk & Serial,” Barker decided to drop the full movie on YouTube on Aug. 8. Since then, it’s been watched over 323,000 times (as of Aug.
26) and fostered lots of discussion on horror fan hubs like Reddit, YouTube and #HorrorTok. “On ‘The Chair,’ there was a lot of comments like ‘Hollywood needs to give this guy a budget,'” Barker says. “But when you put a feature out there, it feels different in a way I didn’t expect.
The people who review feature films for a living are reviewing this movie, something they wouldn’t do for a short film. But all of a sudden you’re seeing videos that discuss both “Alien: Romulus’ and ‘Milk & Serial.'” Barker, .