Milo

MILO opens with a flashback sequence involving a group of schoolgirls and a murderous young boy in a yellow raincoat.

Years later, we are introduced to Claire Mullins (Jennifer Jostyn), an elementary school teacher who begins seeing a boy in a yellow raincoat lurking around. As it happens, Claire was one of the girls from the opening. Has the titular terror tot somehow returned to torment her once more?

When Claire's friends start dying around her, it's clear that school might be out forever!

MILO is a somewhat macabre, ultimately silly movie that's far more humorous than frightening. The killer kid just isn't that intimidating. Of course, it doesn't help that his voice sounds like Bugs Bunny on helium!

Claire's neurosis is rather comical as well. She comes across as delirious from the the moment she enters the picture. Adding to the fun is Antonio Fargas as the world's most unlucky janitor. His death at the tiny hands of MILO is brilliantly absurd!

DO NOT MISS: The head-bashing, utterly bananas, Claire vs. MILO finale! It's hard to top a woman in half a wedding dress swinging a baseball bat at a mutant child brandishing a scalpel!...

There was more potential in this thriller, but we're left behind with the results of bad acting, no creative twists or story layers and weak dialogues. The musical score does lift some scenes up though and the overall look from MILO has a certain flaw to it due to the independent character (a "US" independent character). I've seen worse, but it's not worth your time unless you're a real fan of teenage slashers and the likes.

2/10

Plot? What of it there was: Girl moves back to home town. Girl starts teaching at her old grade school (in place of her already "murdered" friend). Girl gets stalked by ghost from past. Ghost gets all of girl's friends. Girl must clear her name. Girl becomes entangled in a wild web of deception and spookiness. Does she get away in the end??? I could tell you, but...

The real complaint I had with this movie was that the plot kept slowing down enough to cause me to lose interest. I did like seeing Huggy Bear (Fargas) in a non-pimp role (he does have to pimp slap the bad guy a little at the end just for good measure). The story had little glints of something interesting and the final twist was gory enough, but the slowness of not only the plot but the characters proved a little aggravating. Okay, so I had more than one complaint...and my final complaint was the ending. One of those "The End?" ending that makes you cringe. All in all, decently bizarre and Jostyn reminded me pleasantly of one of *my* teachers from grade school (wink, wink).

A lot of people on here are leaving bad reviews about Milo. Personally, I didn't think it was all that bad. The idea behind was somewhat original and the movie over all was creepy. It left me and my friend feeling a bit disturbed after watching it.

The bad points though? The acting is pretty bad. Also, as most of the other reviews have already stated, there are a lot of holes in the plot line. You have to really pay attention to every single little thing to try and put things together yourself. I only watched it once though and picked up on most of what was going on.

All in all though, it all depends on what you're into. If you have to have everything explained to you and have everything make sense, then this movie definitely isn't for you. I would also stay away from it if you have a weak stomach. I would recommend it to you though if you like movies that are a bit out of the ordinary, and leave you with a disturbed feeling.

This movie is really warped..the acting is okay and it lives up to a true horror movie (plenty of deaths, a few twists) however it is pretty sick and twisted, made me feel a bit sick but I guess if that's your sort of thing. I wouldn't recommend it, but if you are really bored it's kind of interesting and entertaining even though as I said it can make someone with a weak stomach feel kind of sick especially at the end. It isn't a very good horror movie and I have seen much better as it's pretty slow and takes things too far a bit too much in parts. But yeah I'd give it a 3 maybe out of 10.