The Faculty (1998)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Don't listen to the negative reviews

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

After the discovery of a strange creature, the students at a small- town high school start to suspect it has something to do with their teachers' sudden strange behavior and soon realize it's part of an alien plot to take over the world and must find a way to stop it.This here was quite an enjoyable and entertaining effort. One of the better features with this one is the fact that the setup of the alien invasion is handled exceptionally intelligently since it comes off in a unique manner. Their original plan of attack, slowly moving through the parents and faculty of a small-town one-by-one under the guise of the behavioral changes which is slowly working it's way through the school on the down-low of doing the ear-exams. This small-scale invasion tactic is an exceptionally unique one that in concept works nicely and gives this one a great build-up throughout the first half exploring their plan. The gradual influx of strange behavior everyone undergoes, not only from the sudden water consumption, the obsessive status and the much more important tormenting their friends and family into their ranks all works as a fine build-up in here which spreads throughout the first half and allows the revelation to come naturally. Due to the fine explanations offered up that signify a change has occurred at the school, the action seems to showcase this is rather fun here with the collection of the students and how they continually come after them throughout the school as their realization in the classroom as the fun brawl which finally clues them into what's going on. The finale is where this one scores well on the great action in their confrontations at the school with the aliens which gives great encounters in the gym, the stellar attack outside where they chase around the teachers in the parking lot and all leading up to the final confrontation with the huge alien creature stalking and tormenting them throughout the school. That has some great work throughout from the stalking in the showers to the chasing in the basketball court where there's plenty of brawling with the giant alien creature and finally getting to the fun measure of how to finally defeat it. Given that all this is accomplished with some solid gore and a realistic-looking full-size puppet for the creature, these here make the film rather fun and exciting even though it does have some minor issues. The biggest problem with the film is the fact that the beginning here takes awhile to get going as all the great work done to build up the threat of the aliens around the school doesn't feature any action to do that. Despite how engaging this section is, it shows how long it takes for that to occur with all the conspiracy issues and side-plots that hold off the big action pieces found in the second half. As well as some really sketchy CGI for the time-period, these here really hold it back.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity and heavy drug use and slang.

Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty is a spectacularly funny gross out horror trash fest that has been a bit forgotten these days. It's a fun, lighthearted yet dangerous piece that plays like Dazed And Confused meets the Body Snatchers. In sleepy Midwest America, a deadly alien parasite attaches itself to the brain stem of a high school teacher, with the sole purpose of converting every human in town into a soulless vessel for these extraterrestrial hosts. The sassy, usually diverse bunch of high school jocks, nerds, weirdos, bimbos and social rejects are tasked with assassinating their whole faculty who has become infected. The effects are appropriately slimy, the performances are knowingly cunning, and the script, penned by Scream's Kevin Williamson, is a deftly comic 'scream' heh heh. Josh Hartnett makes a likeably sleazy lead as the local dealer who figures out the aliens weakness (I won't spoil the hilarious surprise). Clea Duvall, Shawn Hatosy, Jordana Brewster, Usher and a twitchy Elijah Wood are great as the students. Robert Patrick has a ball as the short tempered football coach moron, Bebe Neurith makes a silky, nasty villainess, and Jon Stewart, Salma Hayek, Piper Laurie, Daniel Von Bargen and shooter mcgavin himself all show up in memorable supporting turns. The film has knows how violent and nasty it should be to get that bite, but at the same time knows how to have fun, and be a unique, highly entertaining entry into the 'sarcastic teens vs. otherworldly monsters with a glib, self parodying script' subgenre.

This is a decent high school horror with a mix of up and coming actors and established stars. From the writer of Scream and the director of From Dusk Til Dawn, while not quite the classic this film had a lot to recommend it and is worth a watch.Aliens or parasites or alien parasites, it doesn't really matter are trying to take over the world one school at a time. In Herrington High School Josh Harnett (sporting a left over Jim Carey haircut from Dumb and Dumber) leads a plucky band of misfits (featuring hobbits, girl-racers and that guy from that thing) on a quest to rid their school of water obsessed body snatchers.Featured on Episode 64 of The Emerald Reprobates Podcast.

Got some special memories of this one because I rented this movie, probably around 1999, and I didn't rent movies that often when I was little, so it was a big deal for me. I rented The Faculty and Dark City, because I was babysitting. I had seen a review of the Faculty, or some sort of news about it on the TV. I live in Norway, and there wasn't that much talk about horror movies in the media/on television, so it definitely got my attention.The Faculty is just plain awesome. It's a straight up classic. I rented it not knowing much about it, and I loved it. The plot is pretty simple, you know the drill, but it is so well made. Great cast! Several of the actors became house hold names. Josh Hartnett and Elijah Woods being the biggest ones. But several of the other cast members also pop up in movies and series from time to time.A lot of big names in this one. Salma Hayek, Famke Janssen, Jordanna Brewser, Usher, Jon Steward, Oh, and of course, T1000 himself - Robert Patrick is in it, and he is awesome. The effects are really good, it has some serious suspense, a couple of scares, it's kind of over the top and goes pretty crazy. But what I like maybe the most is the general atmosphere. I've always been fascinated with American schools, (probably from seeing so much of it in movies and stuff) and I just love seeing movies that take place in high school and college.The movie is just overall cool and comes very close to a 10 from me. Maybe after another viewing it will be!