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Milk & Serial

2024 horror film by Curry Barker

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Milk & Serial is a 2024 American found footage horror film written and directed by Curry Barker, in his directorial debut. It stars Barker and Cooper Tomlinson, the comedy duo from YouTube sketch comedy channel "that's a bad idea". The film follows two pranksters as they attempt to prank each other only for the situation to dramatically spiral out of control. With a budget of $800, the duo made it in four months. After failing to find a film distributor, Barker decided to release the film on YouTube for free. Milk & Serial was released on August 8, 2024. It received positive reviews from critics.

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“Milk & Serial” enters the record as 2024 horror film by Curry Barker. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Milk, Serial and horror can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Milk, Serial and horror.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Milk & Serial” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.