Paula Cale stars in Milo as a pretty young schoolteacher who returns to her idyllic hometown because she has nothing but pleasant memories from her childhood. Except, of course, of the time the hideous demon-child Milo killed one of her friends and slashed her chest, leaving her scarred for life. But Cale is a trouper, and Milo a slasher film, so before long she's taken a job at the local elementary school, where she begins encountering the demonic being all over again. For its first fifteen minutes or so, Milo is surprisingly effective. While the character of Milo, a raincoat-wearing boy slasher almost always filmed in medium or long shot, seems to be lifted directly from Nicholas Roeg's Don't Look Now, Milo has an exploitative sort of appeal all his own. Unfortunately, things go downhill fairly early on, and the film degenerates into a sluggish, amateurish slasher film devoid of wit and originality. From the moment Milo kills Cale's best friend, the film's plot begins to hinge on its protagonist behaving in ways that defy the basic laws of common sense. Cale's character is allegedly a college graduate and an educated member of society, yet she has difficulty understanding why people look at her a bit funny when she tries to explain being stalked by a presumably dead demon-child who hasn't aged in two decades. Likewise, after Milo's murderous rampage, Cale's strategy for staying alive seems to involve placing herself in as many spooky, abandoned buildings as possible. Worse still, as is depressingly obligatory for horror films hoping to become franchises, Milo ends on an ambiguous enough note to allow for a slew of sequels should Milo find an audience.