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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Its deliberately scrappy mock-documentary style, abrasive comedy, and alienated student partnership echo the DIY provocation of Duck! while treating the escalating school-world fantasy with more unease.
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Why this pick
Another lo-fi, faux-found-footage portrait of two isolated boys planning violence, built around uncomfortable intimacy and a disturbingly matter-of-fact homemade-media texture.
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Why this pick
A blunt, low-budget school-shooting drama that shares Duck!’s confrontational Columbine-era subject matter, social alienation, and interest in institutional failure.
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Why this pick
It approaches similar school violence from the opposite tonal direction: quiet, observational, and formally spare, with drifting corridors and mounting dread rather than broad satire.
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Why this pick
A school-set drama about a troubled teen and a provocative class play, balancing dark subject matter with a direct, made-for-TV intensity and concern for consequences.
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01 / THE STORY
Derwin (William Hellfire) and Derick (Joey Smack) are trench-coat wearing neo-Nazis from deprived families. They find a website selling top secret missiles and order one with the credit card of Derick's mother. The next day at school they encounter the school janitor who warns them of their unusual wardrobe. They launch the missile the following day, but discover it is a dud. While walking home, Derwin is assaulted by jock (subculture) and left in critical condition where the janitor finds him. He and Derick both fail their presentation on the topic of the internet due to Derwin's absence. They then form a plan to kill students at their school and then commit suicide with the principal's offered assistance. The pair buy two shotguns and several handguns from a black market dealer next door to a heavy metal band concert. He also offers them cocaine and sexual intercourse with a girl being held hostage in which they refuse to accept. The next day the school principal arrives first with a propane bomb and leaves it in the cafeteria. Derwin and Derick appear and open fire in the cafeteria, killing several people, before going to the basement, where they simultaneously kill each other. A police officer (Karl Pitt) and the school principal (Larry Wellman) enter the school to find a bomb that was placed there by the janitor (Rodney Sleurtols). While the policeman attempts to defuse it, the janitor is seen running away to safety before the policeman accidentally sets the bomb off. The aftermath involves the parents along with a teacher and the principal sharing their thoughts on Derwin and Derick as well as the victims. A scientist then expresses his theory of alien influence as a motive.
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