Ok, so there was this film out last year called “The Babbadook”, it masqueraded for all intents and purposes as a common garden variety horror but was in fact a beautifully coherent melodrama of loss, stress and dealing with your “Inner demons” before they eat away at you. Now, although “Bad Milo” (a tale of one man coming to terms with the demon that lives up his arse.)touches upon many similar themes, I think it’s fair to say, they’re handled very much differently.
Owing more to 80’s schlock like “Basket Case” and “Critters” than it does to any sterling character driven work that you’d expect from producers The Duplass Brothers, it’s thankfully not just pitch black humour and fart jokes. Ken Marino plays the lead- Duncan- anxious, brow beaten and constantly bottling up his emotions until one day Milo escapes from his rectal prison and kills those that have wronged Duncan. Gillian Jacobs ( Britta in “Community”) is brilliant as his understandably freaked out wife and Peter Stormare kills as his Psychiatrist when he’s on screen but as weird as it is to admit, it’s all about the chemistry between Duncan and Milo.
That a film that includes the line of dialogue: “You’ve got a trooper in your pooper.” and touches(cloth) on abandonment issues via a nice bit of Arse demon mythology can hold interest is solid enough but that you start falling for the little doe-eyed bastard from brown town came as an absolute shocker to me. So, “Bad Milo” then, a bit of a guilty pleasure…….definitely not an Austrailian independent melodrama but if you like your creature features with pitch black humour and an 80’s vibe, then I think this is the colon dwelling monster movie for you.
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