Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.
Direction
Harris Savides' roaming Steadicam turns hallways into existential traps.
Acting
Non-professional cast improvises with devastating, documentary-like authenticity.
Editing
Overlapping timelines force you to witness the same horror from multiple prisons.
Director
Gus Van Sant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references both the 'elephant in the room' and Alan Clarke's 1989 short film about Northern Ireland violence.
Shot at the director's actual Portland alma mater; released exactly four years after Columbine with zero studio interference.
US
