The Faculty (1998)
When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make a chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet!
Cast and Information
Directed By: Robert Rodriguez
Written By: Kevin Williamson, Bruce Kimmel, David Wechter
Starring: Robert Patrick, Christopher McDonald, Elijah Wood, Salma Hayek, Piper Laurie, Famke Janssen, Clea DuVall, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy, Bebe Neuwirth, Jordana Brewster, Laura Harris
Genres: Sci-fi, Suspense/Thriller
Country: USA
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juntakinte99 | 60 22nd |
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Post-Scream, we had an influx of late 90's teen horror movies with rock soundtracks. This one was different: a sci-fi picture that felt like you watched 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers back-to-back with The Breakfast Club. It has some creepy things: namely the suspense of being immersed with these kids trying to solve the mystery. But the cast (and comments towards the bisexual character) make it more of a time capsule & less a timeless film. Marginal recommendation for the campy fun.
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Paxton | 65 45th |
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The Faculty finally gave teens what they'd always wanted: A movie about high school.
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Alex Watkins | 3 38th |
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A campy slasher flick about high school sports turning people into mindless aliens while education gets short shrift. It's no coincidence that the smartest kids are the ones who last the longest, or that the jock who quits the team is the one who manages not to be instantly turned. Besides that, it's just a lot of fun, with nice nods to Alien, The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers et al. Where's all the hate coming from?
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Luna6ix | 84 86th |
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The first soundtrack I ever owned, and aside from the awesome songs, it has a feel not unlike the zombie movies I am unduly biased toward.
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Leonardis | 76 21st |
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Very fun. More Robert Rodriguez doing what he does best; cheesy, well paced movies with some decent performances and characters easy to root for. I loved all of the effects and seemingly high stakes. It isn’t a great movie, but it’s a good time for you’re looking for a time killer this Halloween season.
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Suture Self | 5 43rd |
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Comparable to Scream in that it's a buffet-style homage to a lot of horror flicks, particularly THE THING and INVASION OF THE BODYSNATCHERS. I have no idea where all the vitriol is coming from because it's great camp-horror and has a very colorful cast.
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KasperL | 80 86th |
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This kind of plot has been done to death, of course, but there's a reason for that, namely that, good or bad, these movies are almost invariably fun. One of my favorites from Rodriguez.
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Jeb | 15 12th |
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The summary made me laugh so hard.
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moraesfelipe | 67 67th |
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A satisfying high school update of Body Snatchers (and many other films), The Faculty is not very subtle in its ideas of depicting teen angst in terms of sci-fi paranoia -- the clash between students and alien teachers is a good, but naive allegory of how cold and bossy the social authorities are --, but a catchy ride about critical discoveries -- sexuality and drugs. The only way to find out if you are just like everyone else (cold and polite) or unique is getting high. Silly, but fun.
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Noblet | 43 17th |
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Jon Stewart's finest acting performance.
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Dakota99 | 7 77th |
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A cheesy and absurd guilty pleasure. This is one of the movies I think of first when I think of 90s films. While not particularly scary, it does have a few scenes that are genuinely creepy and it blends surprisingly well with how goofy it is. Even the characters are fine for their respective roles (Jordana Brewster is always nice to look at) Does it have some of the annoying high school schlick? Yep, and sure, it's predictable. I don't care. I still have a very good time with this.
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Magb | 10 1st |
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Most people don't seem to hate this one quite as much as me, but I thought it was just awful from beginning to end.
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doctor7 | 71 53rd |
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Another reimage of Invasion of the Body Snatchers that surprisingly turned out quite good. The soundtrack felt very appropriate for the film and the social groups were real enough. Certainly over the top in certain points but hey, it's a fun movie.
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Zarkon | 65 16th |
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Reminds me of Peter Jackson's early splatter flicks: there's definitely a passion and talent behind the visual effects, but also an amateurism that pervades the entire movie.
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TheDiceman | 40 19th |
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Not to bad Sci Fi horror film.
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joseywales | 63 40th |
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Fun. And I agree with the user that said Famke Janssen was smokin' hot!
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FAE | 60 5th |
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One of the worst to come out of the teen thriller series.
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| 1 | Audhumla | 91 80th |
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I shouldn't have liked this as much as I did.
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vesupria | 1 5th |
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Some pretty cool special effects. It's very cliche, and all that, but it moves along at a good pace and it's not *boring* per se. So some marks for that.
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muutanet | 72 68th |
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Funny story combining scifi and horror genres.
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| 1 | Q31 | 68 3rd |
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I don't care for the message it seems to send.
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BillyShears | 75 65th |
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Did not like that late 90s period where Jon Stewart was an actor. Oh and there be aliens or something within here it's an okay movie.
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Vandelay1 | 83 92nd |
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Nice
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WWallce4prez | 72 51st |
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Breakfast Club. This is way better than it has any right to be. The cast goes on for miles and Rodriguez directs with a restrained cool. Robert Patrick slow-motion mugging with fireworks in the background is everything.
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Mirelurk | 85 91st |
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The most watchable movie ever.
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SirStuckey | 65 45th |
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It's The Breakfast Club meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets 90s cinema.
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FancyMike | 3 22nd |
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It's got one hell of a cast, but I hate every single character in this movie. And it opens with a damn Offspring song. I should hate it, but I must have been in a nicer mood than normal because it was kind of fun in a shitty late 90s horror time capsule sort of way
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hellboy76 | 61 28th |
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Silly horror/thriller is elevated by the cast.
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bof | 39 13th |
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Everything Williamson got right in Scream" he's spent the rest of his career getting wrong. The Faculty has its strengths, a good cast and an idea that could lend itself to either 50s B-movie fun, 70s serious paranoia or 90s teenage angst... but not all three at the same time.
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| 1 | myfavchords | 68 23rd |
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This was an interesting spin on the Body Snatchers theme. However I think the movie looses the way in the final act. A good start has an uninteresting payoff.
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hakkanarejo | 90 39th |
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The Faculty is about a group of people who fear that another group may be aliens from another planet, set out to destroy them. In this case, though, the first group is made up of high school teenagers, and the people they believe to be out to get them is their teachers. One can imagine, how difficult it might be for these student's to get anyone to believe them. Even with the skepticism, though, the students are forced to take care of these aliens before they take "care" of the whole plane
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seals | 10 95th |
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rewatch. my least favorite part of this movie's that bit at the end when Clea DuVall shows up wearing a sundress or whatever. if I'm the quarterback boyfriend, I'm saying hey Clea can you put all that eyeliner and black goth gear back on please? at least for a little bit?
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Scrib | 60 31st |
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Does this feature-length 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' episode automatically get off scot-free for ripping off two science fiction classics just because it openly considers itself a homage? I don't think so. Fun, for sure, but you've got to do more than copy and paste set-pieces from 'The Thing' into high-school scenarios to get credit from me. And apparently Finney's 'Invasion of The Bodysnatchers' is just a rip off of Heinlein's 'The Puppet Masters'? I guess I'll go read that then.
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| Average Percentile 33.49% from 4268 Ratings |  |