Joey Smack and William Hellfire were arrested for carrying real weapons on an elementary school grounds and jailed temporarily after police had obtained a copy of 'Duck! The Carbine High Massacre' off the internet. According to Hellfire in an interview, "This creep from Colorado was doing stories on Columbine since the shooting and he orchestrated the arrests just to make a news story. The FBI was involved and discouraged any action noting 'it was only a movie', but the local Ringwood police really wanted to get on TV. They were laughing and telling me not to worry that I was gonna be 'famous'. Judge laughed it out of court. We made the news for like two weeks straight. Nancy Grace made nasty faces at us. Fox News called us 'copy cat killers.'"
The first film to be inspired by the 1999 Columbine High School massacre.
This movie was released on the first anniversary of the Columbine massacre.
Erin Brown (aka Misty Mundae) explained in 2000 why production company Factory 2000 decided to make this movie, "When those two kids snapped at Columbine High everyone in the Factory was walking on clouds, excited, asking ourselves 'Is this the shape of things to come? Is the machine finally breaking down to the point where our youth is beginning to exterminate each other at puberty?' We felt before it could be made into some All-American 'family values' propaganda TV movie mini-series, we would produce it from the killers' perspective and, of course, add the Factory's manifesto into their logic. Everyone involved had found high school a tortuous and stifling environment so it wasn't very difficult to imagine why the incident occurred. Then to see it replayed on the news again and again made the incident a prime target. The final outcome is a wonderful gut-splitting social satire."
Experimental metal band Today Is The Day appears in the film during a scene in which a christian after school club hires the group for a gig, thinking that the band is a christian rock band.