Elephant (2003)

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Directed by: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Alex Frost (Alex), Eric Deulen (Eric), John Robinson (John), Elias McConnell (Elias), Nathan Tyson (Nathan), Carrie Finklea (Carrie), Kristen Hicks (Michelle, nerdy girl), Matt Malloy (Mr. Luce), Timothy Bottoms (John’s father)
Country: Effed Up American Films
Language: English (Optional Eng Subs)
Runtime: 01:21:21

Plot – Spoilers:
Winner of the Palme d’Or and based on the Columbine High School massacre, Elephant doesn’t dwell on or care about motives. Instead, we literally follow the principal characters around school in the leadup to the climactic moments. And when it does arrive, it’s devoid of excitement, adrenaline or any rush. At most you could say the killers looked like they had about as much fun as two friends playing a game casually at home, would.

Elephant might feeling boring at times, but that’s how a regular day at school would feel if you recorded every instance of it. This is a normal day, with an extraordinary ending.

Genres: Based on a True Story, Mass Killings, Teenagers

3.9 19 votes
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mads
mads
May 10, 2026 4:49 pm

why did he kill his boyfriend

beaner
beaner
April 5, 2026 4:14 am

Hard while watching

maggot
maggot
February 13, 2026 11:15 pm

bitches be so homophobic that the boys kissing fucked them up more than the shooting sequence. get a life holy fuck

Ruefully
Ruefully
February 2, 2026 9:55 am

Pretty boring but pretty boys kissing.

Old Mother Hubbard
Old Mother Hubbard
February 1, 2026 7:08 pm

“Elephant” is the 2nd film in Van Sant’s “Death Trilogy,” the 1st being “Gerry” (2002) and the 3rd is “Last Days” (2005), all three of which are based on actual events. Much like “Gerry,” “Elelphant” tries to literally lull you to sleep with Beethoven sonatas and routine mundane daily occurrences before the shocking event. This film is not an actual telling of the true events at Columbine High School. It is more of a fictionalized account, for whatever reason Van Zant would want to do that. IRL Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were romantically involved and consummated their homosexual love for each other and twinked out prior to the shooting massacre, which is represented in this film. A better film on EUM about a real school shooting that sticks close to the facts is “Polytechnique” (2009). I’m going to give this 3 stars because it works like a sleeping pill if you want to take a nap.

João Carlos
João Carlos
November 24, 2025 3:35 am

O cara que postou o último comentário foi o mais engraçado achava que a sessão de comentários era pra falar dos filmes não uma rede social de namoro como parece que e essa parte do site ou pra alguns deve ser algum tipo de terapia psiquiatria ou sei os caras devem ser tudo sadomasoquista por assistirem tanto filme ruim isso que e gostar de sofrer e igual entrar na rede social x só tem gente chata metida a entender de política e de tudo o mais cheios de pautas que não levam a lugar nenhum

fuckinnefor
fuckinnefor
August 21, 2025 10:51 pm

why the fuck did they kiss

nicole
nicole
August 1, 2025 3:32 am

aint got NO reason to be adding that kiss shower scene what the flip

suck balls
suck balls
June 6, 2025 10:36 pm

this movie couldve been 10 minutes long. nothing important happened except for the shooting wich was played fucking disgustingly anyway. every role in this movie is so irrelevant its crazy. not one emotion has been shown by anybody in this waste of camera memory. I wasted 90 minutes of my precious time on this shitty movie made for brain deads. I’d rather bash my head against the wall for an hour and a half than look at a single “actor” from that absurdly shitty footage that anyone could even dare to call a film.

Ake
Ake
March 2, 2025 3:43 pm

เลิฟมาก

freakster3000
freakster3000
December 25, 2024 4:12 pm

3/4 of the movie was just them walking… but somehow i still kinda liked it tbh but definitly not my favourite. i recommend Klass (2007) or The Dirties (2013) if u like movies abt school shootings lol

osaka
osaka
October 18, 2024 3:10 pm

kinda boring but jared was cute

barbelos
barbelos
September 19, 2024 9:39 pm

this was so ass

what
what
July 1, 2024 8:14 pm

bad acting and the shower scene was so unneccesary. overall just a shitty movie. zero day was so much better.

dinnerman
dinnerman
April 7, 2024 10:00 pm

need the original Elephant on here, the 1989 version

Tinquill
Tinquill
April 5, 2024 2:28 am

love this movie

haritsuke
haritsuke
April 2, 2024 5:12 am

felt slow at some points, the cinematography was really pretty and i liked that they killed more people than in zero day c:

BLACKLIST
BLACKLIST
March 2, 2024 3:18 am

Convinced people only like this movie for the shower scene, feeding into 13 year old girls fantasies about shooters being gay.

fink
fink
February 14, 2024 7:59 pm

better than zero day

Hassan
Hassan
August 29, 2023 6:56 pm

Oow, this was so no casual to watch, but I like it. Very interesting operator work, one moment showed from three different characters, John, Elias and I forgot her name, sorry. Eli my favourite, I hope he survived (run away, please, bro!), but seems no. And I was a little bit shocked when Jarad shot his brother, I wondered they both suicides. Yeah, Benny is just adorable dude. I’m Kazakh, so not well English, my bad.

n1
n1
April 24, 2023 8:46 pm

i’ll say it, this movie sucked. i agree with the uploader tho, thats how a normal school day WOULD be, zero day does a better job in pretty much everything though, even the ending is badly acted out, so bad it got even funny

Joifully
Joifully
April 24, 2023 5:45 am

Gotta love movied based on this stuff, ive been on a bit of a binge today trying to find all of em

The Blackest Eyes
The Blackest Eyes
January 28, 2023 3:54 pm

Over hyped! I would have started the mass shooting scene like Terminator 2, someone just walking down a hallway, slow motion shot of the killers turn the corner, then BOOM! 40 minutes of non stop carnage and much gorier
2/5

Snatch
Snatch
June 13, 2022 10:41 am

A film called ‘The Dirties’ (2013) Isn’t a bad watch either. When two best friends team up to film a comedy about getting revenge on high school bullies, the exercise takes a devastating turn.

erotica
erotica
June 5, 2022 12:25 pm

amazing film! thanks mods!

bunnyhotel
bunnyhotel
March 4, 2022 6:01 pm

mom can we have zero day (2002)?
mom: we have zero day at home
zero day at home:

Knotty B.
Knotty B.
December 24, 2021 4:49 am

I loved the suspense. This one was hard to watch.

Sito
Sito
December 21, 2021 8:15 pm

Zero day was better all around imo but this movie did a way better job with the shooting scene — obv harder to do when doing a strictly found footage movie, but Van Sant had the liberty to more of a cinematic touch to it

The Benny character was incredible btw

Synesthete
Synesthete
December 7, 2021 9:19 am

If you thought either of them were “gay,” you’re unenlightened as Hell.

matt drury
matt drury
December 5, 2021 1:48 pm

good movie but have u got the one with the actual footage of the school dnt no wot the movie is called but it the true life version of columbine

tonyelmono
tonyelmono
November 28, 2021 6:51 am

Interesting that this was based on a true story, but didn’t bother with accuracy. I guess that’s what you call artistic lisence. Only succeeded in boring me. Couldn’t follow the timeline or the character hopping; mostly couldn’t care. Seems like they missed an opportunity to enlighten.

Rottingbrit
Rottingbrit
November 28, 2021 3:36 am

holy shit, some of these student where complete NPC acting when the bullets started flying.

dillweed
dillweed
November 27, 2021 9:22 pm

acting wasnt great but it shows how nonchalant the killers were when committing horrible crimes

Porușniuc Adina
Porușniuc Adina
November 27, 2021 6:55 pm

Hello! The final was alright!And wow ..this story was real.A decent movie based on true events.

Mitch
Mitch
November 27, 2021 3:35 pm

It was alright. As someone mentioned, anticlimactic. Zero Day is so much better.

Heidi
Heidi
November 27, 2021 3:27 am

“Climactic”, not “climatic” (which refers to climate).

Eevie
Eevie
November 27, 2021 2:31 am

Not being from America, please forgive my ignorance.. The actual killers that this is based on.. did they have a homosexual relationship? I quite honestly have no recollection of hearing that other than when people were trying to insult them. (Ave Satanas that we have moved past “gay” being an insult… again, not from America 😉 )
So was this a shitty 2000s jab at the killer’s? I am very curious.

Sito
Sito
November 26, 2021 10:16 pm

This shit was crazy

Zed Man
Zed Man
November 26, 2021 9:29 pm

I’m hoping to watch this someday. I never actually watch the movies on here. I thought the comment section here was not to talk about the movie in question but was sort of like a lonely hearts club – dating/friendship area. Sort of like Facebook. Someone mentioned that the comment section was made so people who actually watch the movies could make comments that would inspire people to watch or maybe not watch the film, based on their opinion. That concept never occurred to me. Well, it’s half past the monkey’s ass – quarter to his balls, so I have to run. Bye for now.