Milo (1998)
Rating: **
Starring: Jennifer Jostyn, Antonio Fargas, Paula Cale
Sixteen years ago, Milo, a ten year-old boy in a yellow rain slicker and sounds an awful lot like someone's creepy basement-dwelling cousin in their twenties, lured five girls to his father's abortion clinic and murdered one of them with a scalpel. He tried to escape from the crime by swimming through a lake, he instead drowned in his attempt. Or did he?
Skipping ahead to the present and three of the kids who were with Milo last, now grown-up, got invitations to attend the wedding of the fourth only to learn that the bride-to-be was just killed in a crash. Our heroine, Claire, decided to honor her friend's passing by taking her job as a teacher at a local school and no soon after, she starts seeing glimpses of Milo scurrying around the playground, yellow rainslicker, bike with card spokes and all. Her students also begun acting weirdly around her, pranking her with live frogs, obscene drawings on the chalk board and getting passed her own childhood photo with Milo scribblings on the back. The school staff and Claire's friends think these are all just tricks from the tykes to test the new teacher, but Claire is convinced that Milo is still out there, somehow alive and haven't aged since, apparently out to kill her and her friends because, um, evil kids will do evil kids stuff?
This one is just kinda existing to exist, honestly;
Milo (1998) had the potential to be a creepy killer kid flick with its ideas and a few effective scenes with the tiny terror, but bearing an overly simple plot, lackluster direction and uninspired acting from its casts, the film hardly passes as interesting and instead leaves us with nothing but a dull drawl and some unanswered questions in the end, like who or what exactly Milo is. (I mean, hints were given at the last act suggesting it all had something to do with a botched abortion, but that doesn't explain why Milo is still a kid 40 something years later, or why he's seemingly immortal and/or supernatural) It also doesn't help that the kid just sounds silly whenever he gets talking, nor the fact that there's not a lot of noteworthy murders to write home about, but I will give the movie points for its lead Paula Cale being decent enough on her role, a few creepy aesthetics and, too, the unintentional hilarity of the titular mini-killer's
unique characterization.
It's tolerable, but easily replaceable by better killer kid flicks.
Bodycount:
1 girl stabbed with a scalpel
1 female mentioned killed in a car accident
1 female cut to death with a scalpel
1 female slashed through the gut
1 male found murdered
1 male stabbed to death with a scalpel
Total: 7
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