Sunday, October 13, 2013

Halloween Horror Watch #14: Bad Milo

Bad Milo -- Jacob Vaughan



If you dug the trailer, you've basically seen Bad Milo. But if you dug the trailer, you'll like the movie. Duncan (Ken Marino) has an inner demon and it lives in his colon. The feelings of anger and stress Duncan has towards a person cause the demon to unleash itself through the most convenient way possible. That's right, Duncan poops out his demon. For a movie that features a man getting his dick bit off and Gillian Jacobs (playing Duncan's wife) throwing dildos at the demon, Bad Milo is remarkably restrained in how it depicts the demon, named Milo, leaving and re-entering Duncan's butt.

Bad Milo is nothing special but it was damned entertaining. This is, in large part, due to the cast. Marino plays the shock and surprised of having a butt demon and the eventual acceptance with surprising nuance. He also has one of the best readings of "what the fuck?" I've heard in a long time. The supporting cast is a real winner. Jacobs, Stephen Root, Patrick Warburton, Kumail Nanjiani, and Peter Stormare. Stormare is particularly great as the psychiatrist.

For a low-budget movie, the monster effects are generally good. The Milo is pretty cute (one of my friends likened him to the baby in Dinosaurs. There is one instance of terrible CG blood that is pretty inexcusable. I was surprised how invested I was in Duncan's growth as a human by the end. Bad Milo is way better than a movie about an ass demon has any right to be.

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