

An unhinged office worker who planned to go on a shooting spree at his workplace struggles with his newfound status as a hero after he ends up stopping a shooting spree instead.
Acting
Slater's twitchy desperation is genuinely unsettling.
Direction
Cappello's tonal whiplash between comedy and horror.
Writing
The talking fish hallucination that might not be one.

Director
Frank A. Cappello
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 15 days for under a million dollars. The aquarium sequences were filmed at Long Beach's actual Aquarium of the Pacific during off-hours.
Cappello originally wrote this in 1999, pre-Columbine saturation. By 2007, distributors called it 'too soon'—then sat on it until it became 'too late' for relevance.
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