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Since the 1994 film Natural Born Killers was released, several attacks suspected to be copycat crimes have been committed by fans of the film, mostly by high school students within the age range of 15 to 18. Though apparent links have been claimed between the film and most of the incidents described below, certain causality has not been proven.
Natural Born Killers is a 1994 American romantic crime action film [2] directed by Oliver Stone and starring Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, and Tom Sizemore. The film tells the story of two victims of traumatic childhoods who become lovers and mass murderers, and are irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
The shooting has had an effect on school safety, policing tactics, prevention methods (including gun control and metal detectors), and inspired numerous copycat crimes, with many killers taking their inspiration from Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold by describing the two perpetrators as being martyrs or heroes.
Anne Marie Hochhalter (December 19, 1981 – February 16, 2025) was an American anti-gun violence activist who was a survivor of the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado. [1]
Jan. 7—A high-profile case erupted when a woman of a prominent family referred to by many as the "Kennedys of Oklahoma," along with her Tahlequah High School dropout boyfriend, went on a crime ...
Natural Born Killers would appear in theaters in the summer of 1994, just as the twenty-four-hour news cycle was tightening its stranglehold on American life. CNN came on the air June 1, 1980, and ...
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The Following, a 2012 TV series about copycat crimes; Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, an animated television series where police are investigating a string of copycat crimes inspired by "The Laughing Man" Natural Born Killers, a 1994 action comedy about two kids who go on a killing spree that inspired multiple copycat crimes