Dir: Jacob Vaughan
Year: 2014
Cast: Ken Marino, Gillian Jacobs, Patrick Warburten, Peter Stormare
Genre: Comedy/Body Horror/Creature Horror
Cert: 15
It's safe to say that this is easily one of the strangest films of 2014. Bad Milo! follows Duncan, a friendly and mild mannered accountant played by Ken Marino (totally different to the massive evil cunt he was playing in Eastbound & Down) who finds out he has developed a polyp in his colon from hoards of incredible stress brought on by his absolute WANKER of a boss played by Patrick Warburton as well as his mother who is constantly pestering him about having a child (the most stressful thing of all time) with his girlfriend Sarah, played by Gillian Jacobs, while her Indian lover constantly goes on about how much he rails his mother out of it, in front of him no less. But much to his surprise, it's actually NOT a polyp, but in fact, an evil little demon named Milo, who is shat out every time Duncan becomes too stressed and kills who ever is causing him that stress. He then climbs his way back into his arse and waits for more victims!
Now I know what you're thinking... THAT'S THE BEST SOUNDING FILM OF ALL TIME!!! Sadly, it's not. Though it's not bad either. It's safe to say I was fairly disappointed by many things in it. I had heard it was like a very gory Gremlins, which is totally wrong. The look of Milo was reminiscent of Gremlins maybe but it's in no way similar otherwise! It did thankfully use practical effects for Milo the whole time which I enjoyed, but sadly when it came to any of the violence it was very badly done CGI. Some people said it's like a Troma movie with a budget and less dick jokes, which it was, but I actually enjoyed this more than Troma stuff. Apart from being disappointed with the lack of gore and practical blood effects (Which can be made in your fucking kitchen for 3 quid) this actually held up will as a great comedy. Which thankfully it was trying to do! All the dialogue in it was hilarious and delivered brilliantly, I was actually more interested in what they were talking about than the demon shitting to be honest. I know, it's madness! "New Year, New Me" as some absolute geebags would say. Acting wise everyone did grand, it's not exactly something that requires too much acting ability, though Ken Marino does give the best performance of someone taking an agonizing shit I've ever seen. I actually felt like I was taking it with him, it was that convincing. Sadly I got over zealous and actually ended up joining him in the act... anyway some Dettol and a sponge later, I continued with the movie and it was certainly not bad. Not exactly too good by any stretch. It's a complete brainless fun movie and delivered on the comedy but fell short on the horror side. When Duncan first see's Milo is absolutely side splitting (and seemingly rectum splitting). Be sure to watch this one intoxicated somehow for maximum enjoyment!
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