2024 is already becoming something of a banner year for horror, with Longlegs making over $100 million and Late Night with the Devil earning a whopping 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. And yet the breakout horror of the year might just be an $800 project currently available to watch free on YouTube. Milk & Serial is a 62-minute, found-footage horror by YouTuber Curry Barker, and it manages to be at once ruthlessly effective and wonderfully authentic. Racking up 348,000 views in its first two weeks alone, its popularity has been supercharged by raves on Reddit that have since crossed over into traditional media. Milk & Serial follows a pair of insufferable YouTube pranksters as they attempt to torment each other for clicks. But, without giving too much away, everything goes wrong when one of the pair reveals a capacity for torment that wildly outstrips that of their partner. It’s a grisly, creepy, fat-free hour; deliberately grungy and horribly believable. —Stuart Heritage