Columbine High School massacre "Christianity is YOUR Columbine". In a self-made video recording sent to the news media by Seung-Hui Cho prior to his committing the Virginia Tech shootings, he referred to the Columbine massacre as an apparent motivation. In the recording, he wore a backwards baseball cap and referred to Harris and Klebold as "martyrs." Adam Lanza, the perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting had "an obsession with mass murders, in particular the April 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado." The perpetrator of the Emsdetten school shooting praised Harris in his diary. In November 2007, Pekka-Eric Auvinen imitated Columbine
Columbine High School massacre 2003 Gus Van Sant film "Elephant" depicts a fictional school shooting, but is based in part on the Columbine massacre. The 2003 Ben Coccio film "Zero Day" was also based on the massacre. Also in 2003, the Uwe Boll film "Heart of America: Home Room" was released. The film's main plot focuses on two bullied students, who plan to carry out a school shooting on the last day of school after being tortured by the school jocks. The main character has second thoughts and quits at the last minute, while the other carries out the plan with a female accomplice.