Filmmaker Curry Barker may turn his $800 found-footage film Milk & Serial into a bigger-budget project. The writer-director of Obsession first released the slightly over-an-hour-long film on YouTube in 2024, where it’s still free to watch. But that doesn’t mean it’s destined to stay on the small screen.
Milk & Serial stars Barker alongside his That’s a Bad Idea co-creator Cooper Tomlinson, and centers around a social media comedy act. The duo’s lives are quickly ripped apart after recording a birthday prank for their channel. In the 2 years it’s been up, it raked in over 3 million views, after becoming a cult hit with horror fans. Baker’s short film The Chair may also get a feature-length treatment.
“The Chair could definitely be a horror film. I think eventually it would be cool to bring a feature version of the haunted chair story to life. Milk and Serial [about a serial killer with a YouTube prank channel] is probably going to happen [as a film]. I wonder if there’s an opportunity to bring somebody else onto Milk and Serial and I’ll produce but not necessarily direct,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.
Barker is currently working on his newest film, Anything But Ghosts, and is set to direct the latest Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot. So it may be a while before we see either of these in the production pipeline. But with Barker’s sway in Hollywood right now, we doubt he’ll have an issue getting funding anytime soon.
You can watch Milk & Serial and The Chair below.
