Duck! The Carbine High Massacre is a 2000 black comedy

Black comedy

A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor. The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor; and that, as humor has been defined since Freud as a comedic act that anesthetizes...

 film about a fictional school shooting. It was the first Columbine

Columbine High School massacre

The Columbine High School massacre occurred on Tuesday, April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States, near Denver and Littleton. Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a massacre, killing 12...

-inspired film to be released. It was released exactly one year after the massacre. It is written, produced, directed, and starred by softcore horror/sex film directors William Hellfire and Joey Smack. The film is unrated, in a sense due to the incredible amounts of gratuitous violence, amongst other forms of non-rateable media.

Plot

The film tells the story of Derwin and Derick, two trench-coat wearing neo-Nazis. Both come from deprived family backgrounds, one with alcoholic parents and the other with a father who is a wife-beater. When Derwin is severely assaulted by jocks

Jock (subculture)

The term jock, when used primarily in the United States, refers to the classic stereotype of a male athlete. It is generally a negative stereotype, and is attributed mostly to high school and college athletics participants who form a distinct youth subculture. In sociology, the jock is thought to...

, he and Derick form a plan to kill students at their school and then commit suicide. It is set to the date of April 20, the birth date of Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

. The pair buy two shotgun

Shotgun

A shotgun is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug...

s and several handgun

Handgun

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s from a black market dealer. The next day they open fire in the cafeteria, killing most of the secondary characters, before heading down into the basement where they simultaneously kill each other. A police officer and the school principal enter the school to find a bomb (placed there by the school janitor). When the cop attempts to defuse it, the film implies that the bomb explodes. The final scenes show several people trying to explain their theories on why the massacre occurred. This is a spoof

Parody

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 of the moral panic

Moral panic

A moral panic is the intensity of feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order. According to Stanley Cohen, author of Folk Devils and Moral Panics and credited creator of the term, a moral panic occurs when "[a] condition, episode, person or group of...

 and conspiracy theories

Conspiracy theory

A conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.-Usage:The term "conspiracy...

 presented following the Columbine High shooting.

Cast

• William Hellfire as Derwin
• Joey Smack as Derick
• Erin Brown
  Erin Brown
  Erin Brown is an American film actress, filmmaker, model and musician. Brown has starred in over 50 low-budget films, under the names Sadie Lane and Misty Mundae.-Softcore:...
  
   as Bible Girl
• Lilly Tiger as Play Girl
• Chris Perez as Car Kid
• Henry Krinkle as Retard
• Michael Ovum as Spam Jock
• Ryan Trimmer as Benchpress
• Kendall "Shorty" Ward as Afro-American
• Marie Mazur as Song Girl
• Mike Roser as Goth Boy
• Liz Bathory as Goth Girl
• Michael Lema as No Info Boy

Character names

With the exception of main characters Derick and Derwin, all other characters are credited as their stereotype:

• Bible Girl (played by well-known softcore porn actress Misty Mundae)
• Play Girl
• Car Kid
• Retard
• Spam Jock
• Benchpress
• Afro-American
• Song Girl
• Goth Girl
• Goth Boy (Boyfriend of Goth Girl)
• No Info Boy

Controversy

This was the first post-Columbine film on the subject of school shootings, and arguably perceived by critics as the most offensive. It contained much blood and gore, nudity, sexual references and racism (one instance incited by a black character towards his white peers, and another when the protagonists are seen reading Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf is a book written by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. It combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's political ideology. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926...

and wearing Nazi paraphernalia in private). The main actors and directors Smack and Hellfire were arrested for carrying weapons on a school campus during one of the shots outside an elementary school. They were jailed for a short amount of time. There was also controversy over the release date, exactly one year after the Columbine massacre.