When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make the chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet!
Totally underrated, prime late 90s Sci-Fi/Horror/Comedy with an incredible cast that has somehow managed to stay under the radar even now, twenty years later on. The Faculty is one of those movies I make everybody watch.
Final rating:½ - I really liked it. Would strongly recommend you give it your time.
Body Snatchers was just a made up story...
Herrington High School, just your everyday place of learning. That is until the teachers start behaving strangely. It seems there is an alien plot to take over the world and only a rag-tag group of students can save us!
When you pair Robert Rodriguez (director) and Kevin Williamson (writer) what sort of movie do you really think you are going to get? Well the answer is The Faculty, which in all honesty holds absolutely no surprises for anyone familiar with the guys who gave us From Dusk Till Dawn & Scream respectively. That's not to say that The Faculty isn't a fun horror/sci-fi film, because it absolutely is, it's just should be noted that The Faculty is all that it can be as regards the mak...
Wannabe edgy high school horror satire with a notable cast
Several students at a high school in Ohio suspect that the faculty has been taken over by some thing(s).
"The Faculty" (1998) was directed by Robert Rodriguez, who knows how to make slick, cool horror flicks, as witnessed in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) and Planet Terror (2007). The Faculty is cut from the same cloth except it goes too far over-the-top in its wannabe edgy depiction of high school life in Middle America, to the point that it can only be viewed as a satire or black comedy. This turned me off the first time I watched it but, if you roll with it, you can enjoy the movie to some degree.
The story doesnt become compelling until the second half when a group o...
