It's insane how good these two were at their roles, if I wasn't as familiar as I am with the Columbine shooting I'd have easily believed this was real footage. Bit of a shame none of them pursued acting further.
As far as I know they're not "actors" in that sense, the director found people who "felt" real. A good chunk of the movie is actually improvised, they just had a loose script. It's similar to the kids who were in another found footage movie called The Blair Witch Project. Although technically in that case they WERE trained actors they just didn't do anything else beyond that.
@@voteZDLR Ohhh, that'd make a ton of sense, kind of what I've heard referred to as "natural actors". My favorite colombian filmmaker Víctor Gaviria actually uses these a ton, he even made a documentary called "How to get birds to act" about one of his movies where the whole cast were a bunch of kids/criminals from the streets basically playing themselves. Come to think about it, I really love this technique.
@voteZDLR basically the same thing Harmony Korine did with the movie Kids. Of course, Rosario Dawson and Chloe Sevigny did go on to act in more films, but I believe the rest of the cast didn't pursue it any further.
Oh wow, i remember watching this when it first came out and i actually thought it was real footage of school shooters. I have brought it up in conversation many times over the last 20 years, telling people it was the most messed up thing i have ever watched. Only by watching this i now realise that it was a movie and they were actors. I remember just being absolutely stunned at the end, even though i knew it was going to happen you just thought it wouldn't, because they seemed like decent young guys who just hated school. You are never really convinced that they were actually going to go through with it, which made it all the more shocking.
such an unforgettable masterpiece - a film that could have easily come off as exploitive, opportunistic and “too soon” feels authentic and grounded in it’s depiction of high school alienation. one of the scariest movies i’ve seen to this day.. and mainly due to the performances of Andre and Calvin, who are so scarily convincing for two kids with essentially no acting experience whatsoever. it really drives home the fact that no one really knows what bubbling beneath the surface of angsty, misunderstood teens - it makes you connect with them, hoping that their plan is a sick fantasy and they won’t go through with it.. which makes the last ten minutes so much more horrifyingly grim. the repressed anger and undertones of a homoerotic relationship between Andre and Calvin is subtle and provocative - definitely the most fascinating and disturbing film made about school shootings in america to this day imo, great vid
I was graduating when I saw it this same year. Hit real close and I couldn't tell any friends to watch it out of fear I'd be looked at like I was condoning or idolizing that kind of thing. which I wasn't it shook me like the wind of change
What!? This actually made it to the theaters?? Crazy...I assumed it was just a high school film class project. Now I gotta check it out. I think it's safe to say that most people don't like to watch the horrors of reality, they wanna see supernatural creatures/beings or killers in masks using knives, machetes and everything else around them, excluding firearms. Thanks for the heads up yo! ✌😄
I am sorta the opposite to be honest, I can handle gun violence in movies but I do not like when knives are used. Swords are okay for some reason, but knives? Not so much.
The "horrors of reality" in that sense make terrible horror films. Especially considering people who like stuff like horror films have usually been there done that in terms of experience. So to them thats just real life, a part thats dark and most people have never seen, but not very scary, not much scarier than say driving day to day knowing youre far more likely to be mangled up or killed than you are in a school shooting. If driving's not scary why would the even less likely day to day shit lotto be scary? Now having your mind taken over by demon before being dragged to hell, thats scary. Because we dont realistically know if its possible or what it would be like. The root of horror is the unknown, so whats lacking here is the unknown.
@@Tinylittledansonman excellent point! The unknown plays a large part in fear too, you're right, but most of the unknowns are based on unrealistic *mythologies or fables.* These stories are used to induce fear as a form of control. Like the Abrahamic religions, as prime examples, who tell their followers "If they commit sins, they will spend eternity in hell!" Now, what greater form of controlling the masses has worked more effectively and efficiently than those religious laws? They are thousands of years old and people in the 21st century still follow them...fear is the most effective tool for control! Look what Hitler was able to do just by using fear to it's full potential, he turned his entire country into jewish hating/fearing folk, seemingly overnight.
The first few minutes had me thinking of Columbine. It's crazy how that one event changed a bunch of stuff. It was probably the first big school incident. Those of us who were in school from the 90s to the early 2000s most certainly felt the ripples from that event. So much has come out about it too. Hopefully the future generations don't see it memory holed and forgotten.
I was a sophomore when Columbine happened. My junior and senior years were some of the most tense and weird, in terms of environment and energy. 9/11 happened at the beginning of my senior year... that didn't help anything lol
I remember watching this about 10 years ago when i was just a young teen and it disturbed me, but overtime it faded from my memory and i entirely forgot about it. Watching this synopsis instantly reminded me of how it ended and just how eerie this movie is.
I’m so mad bc I have this downloaded on my old computer…the original one with the bomb scene…now I can’t find that version anywhere. This is good definitely worth a watch…pretty much basement tapes
It's what they wanted and talked about in their journals. To leave a lasting impression and have movies about them. Tbh I don't think they would've like the movies they wanted it more in the style of natural born killers, but they would approve of all the mass murderers, even the terrorist attacks like September 11 they fantasized about doing something similar
1st time I saw this I thought it was real found footage of a school shooting that I just hadn't heard about. Says something that mass shootings have become so common that one may have slipped by me.
4:56 I think a big part of acting is that it's a human thing that people do for fun and for the love of it - even in a dark movie, you can have a fun family moment for the actors and the people watching can feel it. I think that's what's missing at times with the emphasis on SFX and such vs a movie with a tiny budget like this that just focuses on the acting itself and the story building and the love of acting - there's a reason to watch and love one more than the other or equally in different contexts. You can just feel a specialness from a scene like this - it's just acting and recording at its roots, a family improvising a scene together, you can almost hear the tongue in cheekiness when he says "today, you 18th birthday" like this sort of inside joke.
i watched this movie when it was on netflix back in like... god, 2013? earlier? it was almost life changing in the sense that it just stays with you. it almost has the same effect as the blair witch project.
Same here, watched it in 2013 as well, on netflix...then I took a break from Netflix for a while to get my life together.... but every time I hear about it, my stomach turns. It looks sooooo incredibly real.
I dont think the happy go lucky conversations with parents is realistic. Bc in real life the relationship with parents were very strained and that kinda adds to why they did what they did, bc u are a product of ur environment.
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I feel like the movie zero hour was way, way more disturbing then this movie . I liked watching zero day not gonna lie , but zero hour was terrifying to watch
I've never heard of this film or the case it was made off of and WOW this video was a disturbing trip. I find this fascinating, but I don't think I could have handled watching the movie all on my own, so thank you for this video
I watched this a few years ago and I have to say it is actually rather good I don't condone the actions or the theme of the film but the 2 kids played the parts rather well
One of the innocent high-schoolers calls 911 and then drops their phone, the dispatcher listens and tries to talk to them but they ignore them. Pretty clever way to give the scene audio.
Saw the real people that did this in their video they said that they purposely stated that there was nobody else involved in this like in pacifically. Is that what their statement was saying? It's pretty weird the specifically trying to point out that no one tried to coerce into doing so.
I find Columbine fascinating in a dark way. What I think happened is that they were bullied. When the teachers and staff didn't do anything, they snapped. There's been a lot of people saying that wasn't the case, but I refuse to believe that. Why would they do what they did without something that lit that fuse? If it was their families, they'd take it out on their families. Something was happening at school and they couldn't take it anymore. To be clear, I AM NOT defending their actions. Also, I can't stand when people find scapegoats to blame for people's actions. Music, video games, tv, etc. It has nothing to do with that. People have been violent for millennia before any of those things.
I think that that was part of their motive, but it’s also clear that they were not completely victims. There are multiple accounts of Eric being the instigator, and they both had a clear self-perception of superiority. Having read both of their journals, Eric was extremely disturbed from the start and Dylan resented anyone who got more attention than him.
to add onto what shattered eclipse said, the shooting was also intended to be a literal BOMBING. they intended to KILL as many people as they could, which is made obvious due to the fact that they placed the bombs in the lunchroom when it was packed.. i’m not denying the fact that they’re victims of bullying and that it was a motive but this comment seriously annoys me tbh. obviously something should’ve been done about the bullying but it’s only one of the reasons behind the shooting. i think they still would have done it no matter if they were bullied.
@@BEEFBASTARD_ lol. Most schools don't care about bullying. They sit back, doing nothing and are more often than not the reasons these people snap. I'm glad you don't like my comment. It only proves my point further.
@@kuramayoko23 no shit schools often don’t do anything about bullying, but being victims of bullying is not the main reason why eric and dylan shot up columbine.. like i said already, they would’ve done it whether or not they were bullied. i’m not talking about school shootings in general, i’m talking about eric and dylan in specific. they clearly didn’t give a shit about anyone else or who they hurt/killed. it was meant to be a bombing but their pipe bombs failed so they settled on shooting whoever. i was bullied pretty badly but i never thoroughly planned a bombing/shooting. i think it’s clear that something was already wrong with them and the bullying simply gave them another reason to go through with it. that’s all i’m gonna say because i’m not gonna argue endlessly with someone i’m never gonna agree with
@@BEEFBASTARD_ Yea. Many, many people get horrifically bullied but never feel the conscious need to lash out at innocent or undeserving people; As much as schools need to re-evaluate how they react to bullying, I don't think that can explain much regarding Columbine. Eric and Dylan pretty clearly just wanted violence for the sake of it
I’ve seen every available basement tape, and even was fortunate enough to play the CHS DOOM 2 WAD (Mod), and Dylan seemed to be the most disconnected, and was either playing the clown or in a screaming rage, Eric at 1 point even nearly started crying at the fact he won’t be able to see his friend in Michigan ever again, and when discussing the aftermath Eric was most concerned at how his parents would feel, before Dylan turned the camera and make a stupid joke, hell Eric’s first cigarette was in a basement tape and he didn’t even know how to use a lighter, and what I’m getting at is where there’s a Sociopath (medically called Antisocial Personality Disorder) there’s usually a Psychopath, and yes there’s a difference, Sociopaths CAN feel emotional, although slightly harder than most, it can also be switched off in a rage, meanwhile Psychopaths CANT feel any emotion AT ALL, and have to mimic using surrounding people’s body language and expressions as a base just to fit in, and is the worst out of the 2 disorders, I think Eric was the Sociopath and Dylan was the Psychopath, why is this relevant? Because when a Psychopath and Sociopath are together, the Psychopath is the dominant, and Sociopath is the submissive going along with whatever the Psycho does/says, aka, Psychos are the leader in all scenarios, hell when Eric bent down to k*ll either Cassie or Rachel (I forget which) the shotty kicked so bad it broke Eric’s nose, and he got so overwhelmed at seeing his own blood the lady next to who got hit was able to make her escape, a psycho wouldn’t care and would likely enjoy the sight.
You've seen their home videos. You've never seen the basement tapes. They've never been released. They've been locked up since they were found. The basement tapes are different than the home videos.
I’m 30 I remember hearing about this movie when I was like 9 or 10 and I thought it was fake, I’ve been in school when a shooting happened and a bomb threat but damn.
This movie is actually underrated Also I don't know if people know about this but, the time the movie came out the director actually made a fake police like report website. It basically talks about all the details on the aftermath of Zero Day, Timeline of the Events, More info on the two teens, The weapons they used, Investigation on their family, and whatever happened to the tapes
@@comprexionJust search up 'Zero Day Movie Website' it's the first one to pop up, it's the one labeled as necocities. But I'm pretty sure it's a remake though, the original can be viewed on the way back machine with the additional photos
@@comprexion Try the Wayback Machine. Can't remember the name of the site though but the poster is right because I remember seeing it. I think they killed 10 people.
@@comprexion also, by going to "the 'zero day' tapes and clicking on the link to the screenshot, it'll take you to a page where you can find the original website where theres a link to the movie page and stuff
@Kellie5476 i'm with you on that one bring the creepiest video i have ever seen and i am a horror buff.❤ and HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR FROM D IRELAND
The idea that Eric was the mastermind/leader is a common misconception. They were both equally engaged in the plan. It could even be argued Dylan was even more invested than Eric, to be honest. He certainly was the one who seemed to be having the most fun on that day, you can hear him whooping and hollering where Eric was mostly quiet.
@@BreezyD-tr8bd The only like alternative then is, if Eric WAS the mastermind, Dylan is the world's biggest puppy dog level poser in the history of mankind and he was doing everything in his power to impress Eric, and to a tragically evil fault.
@@voteZDLR Dylan was apparently the first to write about the idea of the shooting in his journal so idk who is trying to impress who at that point all i know is one just wanted to die and the other was just a crazy mf
@@BreezyD-tr8bd oh I don't know honestly... if he was the first to write about it, that is news to me. Point is, they were both fueling each other in this entire thing. I just wonder, who mentioned it to the other one first? We know it happened at some point obviously but it's one of those things like these two were born to meet each other. Tragically.
Btw, some of the details in Elephant were thought to be true at the time, such as the shooters having been romantically involved and that Eric shot Dylan and then himself. That said, I agree that Zero Day is a much better movie, but beware - it's not just based on Columbine. It's a beat by beat recreation of it. It takes very few creative liberties, sometimes down to dialogue.
there's also the film We need to Talk about Kevin which goes more into the shooters childhood and how he was different from most kids. That one is a disturbing watch as well.
I feel like they tried to be to "Artsy" with elephant with the slow dramatic pov of each person. Then them hooking up in the shower befroe they drove to the school was pretty funny.
@@Anzner1993the thought of them deciding to give up and date instead of going through with the shooting and that saving a bunch of lives is so funny to me
Holy shit I saw Zero Day back in the day when I was like 12 on TH-cam, when TH-cam was basically a wasteland of videos of all kinds. I’m so happy I’m not the only one that remembers this. Wooahhh dude
I saw it way back around graduation. I didn't tell anyone to watch it cause I didn't wanna seem like I idolized stuff like that. Same with that rampage movie it's like they wanted to spoon feed us that at that time because it had slowed down and they needed to push an agenda. That's why they did that sandy hook thing. Cause no one was shooting up schools anymore. That guy's dad was supposed to testify in supreme Court against a massive business he followed a paper trail and found billions of stolen money and had proof - that day. So they killed his wife shot up the school and made his kid a monster by blaming it on the whole family. Making anything he might have said in court incredible and he was no longer on the witness list.
Another great found footage movie similar to the theme of Zero Day, and a more recent example (2013-14 I believe) is a movie called “The Dirties”. Highly recommend it.
Came here to say this; it's amazing how well that movie was able to feel so uneventful even when you knew the outcome and then still gut punch you when it got down to brass tacks. That ending is absolutely fucking haunting
these two kids at my school who were obsessed w school shootings managed to convince the school to let them do a presentation on columbine. they just had us watch zero day and then decided to tell us all types of fun and quirky facts about eric and dylan where they just glorified and idolized them. anyway, one of those girls was my friend and she was actually pretty cool and did grow out of this “phase”. the other girl would bully me constantly and looking back on it, turns out she was more cringe than i was
I watched this with my mom when I was like ten, it still had the pipe bomb making scene in it and everything. It’s a great look into the mindset of the columbine attackers
100 percent in terms of movies made about Columbine I think it’s quite clearly the best Side note this seems like a strange movie to watch with a parent at 10 years old 😅
@@deburke321lmfao I know; both myself and my mom had a real interest in true crime, I knew tons about columbine so when we saw zero day on the shelf at the movie rental spot we grabbed it 😅
My ex husbands cousin was a sophomore at Columbine when it happened. She was never in direct danger, but I believe she knew at least a couple of the victims. That poor girl suffered for years with a meth habit she picked up in the aftermath and she nearly died. She got pregnant and was able to get clean for her baby. As far as I know she’s still doing well today, but she told me at one point that she’ll always have deep scars and lasting trauma from that day.
I've never heard of this movie, but WOW!! I'd be so scared to go back to that school, especially that 1st year. Good work bud!! A capri sun sounds real good right about now!!
This film really is impressive. It's terrifying, deep, unsettling, it really is well crafted as a film. This film is one of a kind and likely couldn't have been made today. Not just because of it's themes, but because of how common it is to do indie films nowadays.
This used to be one of my fave movies it's so disturbing and realistic definitely recommend ALSO if you haven't I recommend watching the commentary Ben did with andre and cal it's pretty interesting
Yeah I watched it beforehand it was great, would love if they sat down and did it again 20 years later I think they’d have a lot of interesting things to say about it
@@deburke321thatd be so cool, Andre actually has a TH-cam channel too he did a q&a ab zero day a little if you haven't seen those :) I think he's called funnily "ohthatandre"
If you watch the movie, he shows C02 canisters and says "C02 canisters for BB guns" then he shows .22 ammo and talks about it for a couple seconds. This video just has bad editing during that part.
'bulletes de aguilla.... christina aguilla' i think about this quote from this movie way too fkn often. he shows the bullets to the camera in the actual film, it was just edited odd in this video ahaha
I remember watching this waaayyy back when I was doing a deep dive into Columbine. Think I had the DVD but that'll be long gone by now. Guess a refresher is due.
I remember seeing this movie about 12 yrs ago when I was 15 late at night. I remember not being able to sleep n I ran into it unintentionally and watched it while playing nba 2k on xbox😬 (my dumb young ass at the time dead ass thought it was real and these dudes was documenting this shit cuz it felt real even the scenes in the end and I found out it was a movie a few yrs later when I tried looking it up again)crazy how I remember it n what I was doing but it was one of those movies u won’t forget cuz it was creepy asf to me seeing the 2 boys spiral downward till the events at the end
I remember watching this in late 2016 and thought it was tough to watch, great job to everyone for the attention to detail on this project that I didn’t know about
I just watched "Elephant" after seeing this video a few times. "Zero Day" completely smoked it. It says a lot when a movie made on a shoestring budget does a far more effective job of conveying what they wanted to get across than something with an immensely larger budget. "Zero Day" interesting. "Elephant" is extremely boring. Even the final sequence pales in comparison.
there is another movie I think few people have seen based on a true crime, it contains one of the worst and most haunting scenes I have ever seen and I have seen alot. It is called playground or Plac zabaw untranslated. I would like if you made a video on it.
Remember watching this a long time ago around when it first came out. At first I thought it was real footage but after I found out it was a project, wish it could’ve had a wider release
It's insane how good these two were at their roles, if I wasn't as familiar as I am with the Columbine shooting I'd have easily believed this was real footage. Bit of a shame none of them pursued acting further.
As far as I know they're not "actors" in that sense, the director found people who "felt" real. A good chunk of the movie is actually improvised, they just had a loose script. It's similar to the kids who were in another found footage movie called The Blair Witch Project. Although technically in that case they WERE trained actors they just didn't do anything else beyond that.
@@voteZDLR Ohhh, that'd make a ton of sense, kind of what I've heard referred to as "natural actors". My favorite colombian filmmaker Víctor Gaviria actually uses these a ton, he even made a documentary called "How to get birds to act" about one of his movies where the whole cast were a bunch of kids/criminals from the streets basically playing themselves. Come to think about it, I really love this technique.
@@alejorag oh that sounds awesome I am gonna check that out
@voteZDLR basically the same thing Harmony Korine did with the movie Kids. Of course, Rosario Dawson and Chloe Sevigny did go on to act in more films, but I believe the rest of the cast didn't pursue it any further.
Absolutely correct.@@michaelm4464
Oh wow, i remember watching this when it first came out and i actually thought it was real footage of school shooters. I have brought it up in conversation many times over the last 20 years, telling people it was the most messed up thing i have ever watched. Only by watching this i now realise that it was a movie and they were actors.
I remember just being absolutely stunned at the end, even though i knew it was going to happen you just thought it wouldn't, because they seemed like decent young guys who just hated school. You are never really convinced that they were actually going to go through with it, which made it all the more shocking.
Oh man, Fourth Kind scared me the same way, we didn't have valuable Internet as convenient as now lmao
@@oreosandmilk67 same here!! My girlfriend and I literally were literally terrified of owls after that…
lol lmao what? Bro probably believed the Blair Witch Project was real based off the marketing in the late 90s lol bro
“You’ve never seen” little do you know I’ve watched it 200+ times
so has everybody else on the fucking internet
Is dis supposed to be a flex or? You’re not special LOL
lol no one fucking cares lol
such an unforgettable masterpiece - a film that could have easily come off as exploitive, opportunistic and “too soon” feels authentic and grounded in it’s depiction of high school alienation. one of the scariest movies i’ve seen to this day.. and mainly due to the performances of Andre and Calvin, who are so scarily convincing for two kids with essentially no acting experience whatsoever. it really drives home the fact that no one really knows what bubbling beneath the surface of angsty, misunderstood teens - it makes you connect with them, hoping that their plan is a sick fantasy and they won’t go through with it.. which makes the last ten minutes so much more horrifyingly grim. the repressed anger and undertones of a homoerotic relationship between Andre and Calvin is subtle and provocative - definitely the most fascinating and disturbing film made about school shootings in america to this day imo, great vid
masterpiece ? it is cowardice trash! nothing more!
when i tell my friends abt zero day i always refer to it as a horror movie
Watched this movie back in 2007 and it has stuck with me ever since. Truly chilling.
I was graduating when I saw it this same year. Hit real close and I couldn't tell any friends to watch it out of fear I'd be looked at like I was condoning or idolizing that kind of thing. which I wasn't it shook me like the wind of change
What!? This actually made it to the theaters?? Crazy...I assumed it was just a high school film class project. Now I gotta check it out. I think it's safe to say that most people don't like to watch the horrors of reality, they wanna see supernatural creatures/beings or killers in masks using knives, machetes and everything else around them, excluding firearms. Thanks for the heads up yo! ✌😄
I am sorta the opposite to be honest, I can handle gun violence in movies but I do not like when knives are used. Swords are okay for some reason, but knives? Not so much.
@@voteZDLRthat’s because gun violence in movies is rarely realistic, shotguns and rifles will blow parts off people, collapse heads etc.
The "horrors of reality" in that sense make terrible horror films. Especially considering people who like stuff like horror films have usually been there done that in terms of experience. So to them thats just real life, a part thats dark and most people have never seen, but not very scary, not much scarier than say driving day to day knowing youre far more likely to be mangled up or killed than you are in a school shooting. If driving's not scary why would the even less likely day to day shit lotto be scary?
Now having your mind taken over by demon before being dragged to hell, thats scary. Because we dont realistically know if its possible or what it would be like. The root of horror is the unknown, so whats lacking here is the unknown.
@@Tinylittledansonman excellent point! The unknown plays a large part in fear too, you're right, but most of the unknowns are based on unrealistic *mythologies or fables.* These stories are used to induce fear as a form of control. Like the Abrahamic religions, as prime examples, who tell their followers "If they commit sins, they will spend eternity in hell!" Now, what greater form of controlling the masses has worked more effectively and efficiently than those religious laws? They are thousands of years old and people in the 21st century still follow them...fear is the most effective tool for control! Look what Hitler was able to do just by using fear to it's full potential, he turned his entire country into jewish hating/fearing folk, seemingly overnight.
I saw this in theatres when it came out.
The first few minutes had me thinking of Columbine. It's crazy how that one event changed a bunch of stuff. It was probably the first big school incident. Those of us who were in school from the 90s to the early 2000s most certainly felt the ripples from that event. So much has come out about it too. Hopefully the future generations don't see it memory holed and forgotten.
I was a sophomore when Columbine happened. My junior and senior years were some of the most tense and weird, in terms of environment and energy.
9/11 happened at the beginning of my senior year... that didn't help anything lol
I remember watching this about 10 years ago when i was just a young teen and it disturbed me, but overtime it faded from my memory and i entirely forgot about it. Watching this synopsis instantly reminded me of how it ended and just how eerie this movie is.
I’m so mad bc I have this downloaded on my old computer…the original one with the bomb scene…now I can’t find that version anywhere.
This is good definitely worth a watch…pretty much basement tapes
Yeah that's one of the scenes I had to cut haha
I have the original DVD w/ that scene. It's not that hard to find anymore.
Internet archive
Wonder what the actual perpetrators would think of not only people being inspired by them but also this film
It's what they wanted and talked about in their journals. To leave a lasting impression and have movies about them. Tbh I don't think they would've like the movies they wanted it more in the style of natural born killers, but they would approve of all the mass murderers, even the terrorist attacks like September 11 they fantasized about doing something similar
1st time I saw this I thought it was real found footage of a school shooting that I just hadn't heard about. Says something that mass shootings have become so common that one may have slipped by me.
I remember watching this a lot when it first came out. It was done so well, and after every viewing it gave me such a weird sad, cold mood.
4:56 I think a big part of acting is that it's a human thing that people do for fun and for the love of it - even in a dark movie, you can have a fun family moment for the actors and the people watching can feel it. I think that's what's missing at times with the emphasis on SFX and such vs a movie with a tiny budget like this that just focuses on the acting itself and the story building and the love of acting - there's a reason to watch and love one more than the other or equally in different contexts. You can just feel a specialness from a scene like this - it's just acting and recording at its roots, a family improvising a scene together, you can almost hear the tongue in cheekiness when he says "today, you 18th birthday" like this sort of inside joke.
Im ashamed to admit that the bit with the double barrel got a hearty chuckle outta me
I’m glad to see someone talking about this movie. I would like to see you do a vid comparing this and Gus Van Sant’s Elephant
i watched this movie when it was on netflix back in like... god, 2013? earlier? it was almost life changing in the sense that it just stays with you. it almost has the same effect as the blair witch project.
Same here, watched it in 2013 as well, on netflix...then I took a break from Netflix for a while to get my life together.... but every time I hear about it, my stomach turns. It looks sooooo incredibly real.
There's also a movie called Zero Hour but it's more of a documentary if I remember correctly.
Elephant is crazy AF too
I remember the saw zero day on TH-cam because it was listed as “the columbine tapes”
The pipe bomb demonstration was a particurlarly eerie.
I dont think the happy go lucky conversations with parents is realistic. Bc in real life the relationship with parents were very strained and that kinda adds to why they did what they did, bc u are a product of ur environment.
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I remember seeing this during the pandemic. I found it on the masskillers subreddit (I like true crime stuff im not a psycho i promise)
Seeing him sat there with a Sitar is one of the most random things I've ever seen.
I feel like the movie zero hour was way, way more disturbing then this movie . I liked watching zero day not gonna lie , but zero hour was terrifying to watch
I've never heard of this film or the case it was made off of and WOW this video was a disturbing trip. I find this fascinating, but I don't think I could have handled watching the movie all on my own, so thank you for this video
Same here
Thanks for that, definitely added to the watch list! 💯
They used the actors real names in The Blair Witch Project,too. Great video as always,my friend!
Thank you very much!
They need to give this film a Blu-ray release. Would love to own a physical copy.
i love this movie a lot, its too realistic
OMG HOORAY I LOVE ZERO DAY!
I THOUGHT IT WAS LONG FORGOTTEN ABOUT
I watched this when I was a freshman in 2014 free on TH-cam its memorable and I like the movie
I actually watched this movie on youtube like 8 years ago.. kinda wild cause i was just talking about this the other day..
I watched this a few years ago and I have to say it is actually rather good I don't condone the actions or the theme of the film but the 2 kids played the parts rather well
definitely in my top ten movies of all time
This flick seems more relvent now todays
Never saw this one. Duck is silly, but somewhat interesting. I'll have to see if I can track this one down.
Were they actually on the phone with dispatch when they were counting down before shooting themselves? I’ve never heard this
One of the innocent high-schoolers calls 911 and then drops their phone, the dispatcher listens and tries to talk to them but they ignore them. Pretty clever way to give the scene audio.
I saw this in theatres when it came out
12:27 taking everything away from others , is the opposite of an everything frame of mind.
I have seen it actually.
Saw the real people that did this in their video they said that they purposely stated that there was nobody else involved in this like in pacifically. Is that what their statement was saying? It's pretty weird the specifically trying to point out that no one tried to coerce into doing so.
Erick's statement to me reads like a reverse psychology ploy and Ive always felt he **did** want to get them arrested LMAO
I mean... Cannibal holocaust and August underground are pretty fuckeddddd
oh i have seen it, 100 times
Zero day is great it's on TH-cam I used to watch it before I started a new grade at school like an end of summer watch
I find Columbine fascinating in a dark way. What I think happened is that they were bullied. When the teachers and staff didn't do anything, they snapped. There's been a lot of people saying that wasn't the case, but I refuse to believe that. Why would they do what they did without something that lit that fuse? If it was their families, they'd take it out on their families. Something was happening at school and they couldn't take it anymore. To be clear, I AM NOT defending their actions. Also, I can't stand when people find scapegoats to blame for people's actions. Music, video games, tv, etc. It has nothing to do with that. People have been violent for millennia before any of those things.
I think that that was part of their motive, but it’s also clear that they were not completely victims. There are multiple accounts of Eric being the instigator, and they both had a clear self-perception of superiority. Having read both of their journals, Eric was extremely disturbed from the start and Dylan resented anyone who got more attention than him.
to add onto what shattered eclipse said, the shooting was also intended to be a literal BOMBING. they intended to KILL as many people as they could, which is made obvious due to the fact that they placed the bombs in the lunchroom when it was packed.. i’m not denying the fact that they’re victims of bullying and that it was a motive but this comment seriously annoys me tbh. obviously something should’ve been done about the bullying but it’s only one of the reasons behind the shooting. i think they still would have done it no matter if they were bullied.
@@BEEFBASTARD_ lol. Most schools don't care about bullying. They sit back, doing nothing and are more often than not the reasons these people snap. I'm glad you don't like my comment. It only proves my point further.
@@kuramayoko23 no shit schools often don’t do anything about bullying, but being victims of bullying is not the main reason why eric and dylan shot up columbine.. like i said already, they would’ve done it whether or not they were bullied. i’m not talking about school shootings in general, i’m talking about eric and dylan in specific. they clearly didn’t give a shit about anyone else or who they hurt/killed. it was meant to be a bombing but their pipe bombs failed so they settled on shooting whoever. i was bullied pretty badly but i never thoroughly planned a bombing/shooting. i think it’s clear that something was already wrong with them and the bullying simply gave them another reason to go through with it. that’s all i’m gonna say because i’m not gonna argue endlessly with someone i’m never gonna agree with
@@BEEFBASTARD_ Yea. Many, many people get horrifically bullied but never feel the conscious need to lash out at innocent or undeserving people; As much as schools need to re-evaluate how they react to bullying, I don't think that can explain much regarding Columbine. Eric and Dylan pretty clearly just wanted violence for the sake of it
A demon and a psycho they would of made a good band
I have seen
I saw this years ago smh wym I never seen it
Trenchcoat Mafia!!!
In the beginning scene that is my high school
You ever seen the movie rampage? Funniest shooter movie in existence somehow
Oh for some reason ive actually have seen this movie
... the movie is on youtube. Just watch the movie.
I, in fact, have seen this.
Those weren't bullets he showed
Those aren't bullets, their co2 cartridges.
I’ve seen every available basement tape, and even was fortunate enough to play the CHS DOOM 2 WAD (Mod), and Dylan seemed to be the most disconnected, and was either playing the clown or in a screaming rage, Eric at 1 point even nearly started crying at the fact he won’t be able to see his friend in Michigan ever again, and when discussing the aftermath Eric was most concerned at how his parents would feel, before Dylan turned the camera and make a stupid joke, hell Eric’s first cigarette was in a basement tape and he didn’t even know how to use a lighter, and what I’m getting at is where there’s a Sociopath (medically called Antisocial Personality Disorder) there’s usually a Psychopath, and yes there’s a difference, Sociopaths CAN feel emotional, although slightly harder than most, it can also be switched off in a rage, meanwhile Psychopaths CANT feel any emotion AT ALL, and have to mimic using surrounding people’s body language and expressions as a base just to fit in, and is the worst out of the 2 disorders, I think Eric was the Sociopath and Dylan was the Psychopath, why is this relevant? Because when a Psychopath and Sociopath are together, the Psychopath is the dominant, and Sociopath is the submissive going along with whatever the Psycho does/says, aka, Psychos are the leader in all scenarios, hell when Eric bent down to k*ll either Cassie or Rachel (I forget which) the shotty kicked so bad it broke Eric’s nose, and he got so overwhelmed at seeing his own blood the lady next to who got hit was able to make her escape, a psycho wouldn’t care and would likely enjoy the sight.
You've seen their home videos. You've never seen the basement tapes. They've never been released. They've been locked up since they were found. The basement tapes are different than the home videos.
This movie shows why not to let a psycho befriend another psycho😂
I actually have seen it and it's not that scary imo but I absolutely LOVE IT!!!!! IT'S SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!
I’m 30 I remember hearing about this movie when I was like 9 or 10 and I thought it was fake, I’ve been in school when a shooting happened and a bomb threat but damn.
This movie is actually underrated
Also I don't know if people know about this but, the time the movie came out the director actually made a fake police like report website. It basically talks about all the details on the aftermath of Zero Day, Timeline of the Events, More info on the two teens, The weapons they used, Investigation on their family, and whatever happened to the tapes
do you know where i could find the website?
@@comprexionJust search up 'Zero Day Movie Website' it's the first one to pop up, it's the one labeled as necocities. But I'm pretty sure it's a remake though, the original can be viewed on the way back machine with the additional photos
@@comprexionyou can find it on the wayback machine
@@comprexion Try the Wayback Machine. Can't remember the name of the site though but the poster is right because I remember seeing it. I think they killed 10 people.
@@comprexion also, by going to "the 'zero day' tapes and clicking on the link to the screenshot, it'll take you to a page where you can find the original website where theres a link to the movie page and stuff
The title is 100% correct, this is legit the creepiest film I've never seen.
Come And See was way worse
This and threads(1984).
@@BonShula yeah that one was pretty bad too
I’ve watched zero day a lot, I’m actually a big fan of the movie and it isn’t creepy or scary at all 😭😭😭😭
@Kellie5476 i'm with you on that one bring the creepiest video i have ever seen and i am a horror buff.❤ and HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR FROM D IRELAND
The idea that Eric was the mastermind/leader is a common misconception. They were both equally engaged in the plan. It could even be argued Dylan was even more invested than Eric, to be honest. He certainly was the one who seemed to be having the most fun on that day, you can hear him whooping and hollering where Eric was mostly quiet.
Eric was tho
@@BreezyD-tr8bdyou fucking weirdos care too much.
@@BreezyD-tr8bd The only like alternative then is, if Eric WAS the mastermind, Dylan is the world's biggest puppy dog level poser in the history of mankind and he was doing everything in his power to impress Eric, and to a tragically evil fault.
@@voteZDLR Dylan was apparently the first to write about the idea of the shooting in his journal so idk who is trying to impress who at that point all i know is one just wanted to die and the other was just a crazy mf
@@BreezyD-tr8bd oh I don't know honestly... if he was the first to write about it, that is news to me. Point is, they were both fueling each other in this entire thing. I just wonder, who mentioned it to the other one first? We know it happened at some point obviously but it's one of those things like these two were born to meet each other. Tragically.
Btw, some of the details in Elephant were thought to be true at the time, such as the shooters having been romantically involved and that Eric shot Dylan and then himself. That said, I agree that Zero Day is a much better movie, but beware - it's not just based on Columbine. It's a beat by beat recreation of it. It takes very few creative liberties, sometimes down to dialogue.
there's also the film We need to Talk about Kevin which goes more into the shooters childhood and how he was different from most kids. That one is a disturbing watch as well.
I feel like they tried to be to "Artsy" with elephant with the slow dramatic pov of each person. Then them hooking up in the shower befroe they drove to the school was pretty funny.
I haven't watched elephant in ages and I do remember watching zero day.
@@Anzner1993the thought of them deciding to give up and date instead of going through with the shooting and that saving a bunch of lives is so funny to me
We need to talk about Kevin is a phenomenal movie@@sassnick5757
I saw this film a few years ago and the last few moments never left my mind. I never really cry at movies, but I was in tears by the end.
Holy shit I saw Zero Day back in the day when I was like 12 on TH-cam, when TH-cam was basically a wasteland of videos of all kinds. I’m so happy I’m not the only one that remembers this. Wooahhh dude
That version of TH-cam was so much cooler
Right same
@@myownbubble1 lol I fucking agreeee - sorry for the late reply btw lmao 😂 I suck at that
I saw it way back around graduation. I didn't tell anyone to watch it cause I didn't wanna seem like I idolized stuff like that. Same with that rampage movie it's like they wanted to spoon feed us that at that time because it had slowed down and they needed to push an agenda. That's why they did that sandy hook thing. Cause no one was shooting up schools anymore. That guy's dad was supposed to testify in supreme Court against a massive business he followed a paper trail and found billions of stolen money and had proof - that day. So they killed his wife shot up the school and made his kid a monster by blaming it on the whole family. Making anything he might have said in court incredible and he was no longer on the witness list.
Another great found footage movie similar to the theme of Zero Day, and a more recent example (2013-14 I believe) is a movie called
“The Dirties”. Highly recommend it.
I've heard good things I'll check it out
the dirties is such a good film!
The Dirties really captures the essence of the shooter being a pretty normal guy. The final scene of that movie is super realistic and chilling.
Came here to say this; it's amazing how well that movie was able to feel so uneventful even when you knew the outcome and then still gut punch you when it got down to brass tacks. That ending is absolutely fucking haunting
these two kids at my school who were obsessed w school shootings managed to convince the school to let them do a presentation on columbine. they just had us watch zero day and then decided to tell us all types of fun and quirky facts about eric and dylan where they just glorified and idolized them. anyway, one of those girls was my friend and she was actually pretty cool and did grow out of this “phase”. the other girl would bully me constantly and looking back on it, turns out she was more cringe than i was
Can I have their number? Or tiktok or discord?
@@Fuckinefor31bro stop its not happening🤧
@@thanoose7890 pls😢🙏
Wait.... girls can be based?
@@waripolo3813 wdym
I watched this with my mom when I was like ten, it still had the pipe bomb making scene in it and everything. It’s a great look into the mindset of the columbine attackers
100 percent in terms of movies made about Columbine I think it’s quite clearly the best
Side note this seems like a strange movie to watch with a parent at 10 years old 😅
That’s effed up if you’re not lying.
Your mom is cool 😎
@@_-pf_gd-_she really was. 😊
@@deburke321lmfao I know; both myself and my mom had a real interest in true crime, I knew tons about columbine so when we saw zero day on the shelf at the movie rental spot we grabbed it 😅
My ex husbands cousin was a sophomore at Columbine when it happened. She was never in direct danger, but I believe she knew at least a couple of the victims. That poor girl suffered for years with a meth habit she picked up in the aftermath and she nearly died. She got pregnant and was able to get clean for her baby. As far as I know she’s still doing well today, but she told me at one point that she’ll always have deep scars and lasting trauma from that day.
crazy thing i live bout an hr away from Littleton in fact my bro almost got himself enrolled in that school back in the day.
Now she has a kid she gets to send off to school..
The goldfishs nephews aunts third cousins dads brother yeah?
that all cap u just commenting bs for attention 😂😭😭
@@thxchucky yeah whatever. Guess you know me irl? I think you’re just commenting for attention
Elephant by Gus Van Sant has always been a favorite of mine, but this kind of takes the cake.. because it feels so real.
they actually put it in one of the files people found in the game sad satan where it had malware in it lol... don't recommend looking it up
@@corvideity danm that's crazy
i love this movie a lot, andre and cal were so good in their roles. it has stuck with me for so long.
I've never heard of this movie, but WOW!! I'd be so scared to go back to that school, especially that 1st year. Good work bud!! A capri sun sounds real good right about now!!
This film really is impressive. It's terrifying, deep, unsettling, it really is well crafted as a film. This film is one of a kind and likely couldn't have been made today. Not just because of it's themes, but because of how common it is to do indie films nowadays.
This used to be one of my fave movies it's so disturbing and realistic definitely recommend
ALSO if you haven't I recommend watching the commentary Ben did with andre and cal it's pretty interesting
Yeah I watched it beforehand it was great, would love if they sat down and did it again 20 years later I think they’d have a lot of interesting things to say about it
@@deburke321thatd be so cool, Andre actually has a TH-cam channel too he did a q&a ab zero day a little if you haven't seen those :) I think he's called funnily "ohthatandre"
the chokehold that this movie had on preteen tumblr girls in 2017-2019 is absolutely insane. good movie tho.
you were there to see it, i can tell lmao 👀
nice pfp
@@corvideity LMAOOO i most definitely was. thank u!
I WAS THERE FOR IT lmao 😭 good times
no way 😭 that's crazy
Shut up
When he shows "bullets" to the camera, pretty sure those are nitrous oxide canisters for whipped cream 💀
He shows only one Nos canister i think , but no its bullets and shells
If you watch the movie, he shows C02 canisters and says "C02 canisters for BB guns" then he shows .22 ammo and talks about it for a couple seconds. This video just has bad editing during that part.
Tell me you a foo without telling me you a foo. Fsfs
'bulletes de aguilla.... christina aguilla' i think about this quote from this movie way too fkn often. he shows the bullets to the camera in the actual film, it was just edited odd in this video ahaha
Wooo whippits
I remember watching this waaayyy back when I was doing a deep dive into Columbine. Think I had the DVD but that'll be long gone by now. Guess a refresher is due.
probably would have been a collector's item by now
I saw this movie in 2013 and I forgot about it, I thought it was called project zero
there is a movie called zero hour that is about columbine maybe ur mixing them up
@@---xo3emwhy is Timothy McVeigh in zero hour?
@@ScrewYourOptics wdym
I remember seeing this movie about 12 yrs ago when I was 15 late at night. I remember not being able to sleep n I ran into it unintentionally and watched it while playing nba 2k on xbox😬 (my dumb young ass at the time dead ass thought it was real and these dudes was documenting this shit cuz it felt real even the scenes in the end and I found out it was a movie a few yrs later when I tried looking it up again)crazy how I remember it n what I was doing but it was one of those movies u won’t forget cuz it was creepy asf to me seeing the 2 boys spiral downward till the events at the end
I was young too and only and only saw the CCTV shooting part and thought I just watched a real school shooting
I saw this movie in like 6th grade and I was just thinking about it the other day. Such a crazy film, but a sad but true story that we cannot ignore.
Andre pick up the phone Andre Andre are you there pick up the phone Andre Andre pick up the phone Andre Andre are you there pick up the phone Andre
You won't believe how many times I had to listen to that while editing this
@@deburke321so annoying but realistic and unrealistic at the same time
Most annoying words ive ever heard in my entire life 💀
Zero day feels raw, and unfiltered. Elephant feels like it's too clean in my opinion.
its too movie like which makes it harder to immerse yourself in
I remember watching this in late 2016 and thought it was tough to watch, great job to everyone for the attention to detail on this project that I didn’t know about
This movie feels so real, definitely a great found footage film.
I just watched "Elephant" after seeing this video a few times. "Zero Day" completely smoked it. It says a lot when a movie made on a shoestring budget does a far more effective job of conveying what they wanted to get across than something with an immensely larger budget. "Zero Day" interesting. "Elephant" is extremely boring. Even the final sequence pales in comparison.
there is another movie I think few people have seen based on a true crime, it contains one of the worst and most haunting scenes I have ever seen and I have seen alot. It is called playground or Plac zabaw untranslated. I would like if you made a video on it.
The acting is disturbing as well. The scenes when they attack the school are terrifying because of how realistic it is.
I love this movie so much, it only gets better the more you watch it.
I had completely forgotten about this movie. Might need to dust up old copy of dvd and watch it again if I can find it.
A testament to mental illness in America, the fact that this movie could be made so realistically..
ive seen the film a while ago, it was actually really interesting as it feels and looks so real
3:42 SPEAKS AND SOUNDS ALMOST LIKE ELLIOT RODGER
YO THIS IS SO ACCURATE 😭😭
Remember watching this a long time ago around when it first came out. At first I thought it was real footage but after I found out it was a project, wish it could’ve had a wider release
believe it or not the actual columbine shooters didn’t want any one to copy them and referred to anyone thinking to copy them as dumbasses
to be a little more specific in their last bits of writing is where they said they didn’t want copycats
but they also said they want to start a chain reaction and had tutorials on making bombs and hiding guns/ equipment in the basement tapes?@@meikel1492
This movie was very good for what it was
naw Duck! 1999 was better and funnier
Smart girl! She sees right through him and she's honest & open about it.