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Okay, you knew everyone in high school was just a little different: everyone looked at you strangely, the teachers were freaky, and you never could find the right groove to fit into. What if it turned out that it was all because your school was inhabited by creepy aliens from outer space? That's the enjoyably cheesy B-premise for this fun and scary flick from the pen of
f1i Scream
f0i0 's Kevin Williamson, the master of the post-modern teen horror film. Directed by Robert Rodriguez (
f1i El Mariachi
f0i0 ), it's
f1i The Breakfast Club
f0i0 meets
f1i Invasion of the Body Snatchers
f0i0 , as six disparate students from Herrington High School band together when they discover that an alien life form is invading both the student and faculty bodies, with plans to take over the world.
Each of the heroes represents a different high school type: popular babe (Jordana Brewster), picked-on geek (Elijah Wood), goth girl (Clea DuVall), sensitive jock (Shawn Hatosy), new kid in town (Laura Harris), and bad-boy rebel (Josh Hartnett). The plot isn't much--a basic kill-or-be-killed premise spiked with a healthy shot of paranoia--but Willliamson and Rodriguez do a great job of building the tension slowly but surely. The suspense set pieces are genuinely frightening, and the film pokes fun at itself without deflating its scares; Williamson is a master at shifting gears from comedy to horror quickly and adroitly. The young cast doesn't have a weak link among them (with special kudos to Wood, DuVall and heartthrob-in-the-making Hartnett), and Rodriguez gets maximum mileage from the titular faculty, which includes Jon Stewart, Piper Laurie, Salma Hayek, Bebe Neuwirth, and Robert Patrick of
f1i Terminator'ca2
f0i0 . Go to the head of the class, Mr.'caWilliamson.
f1i --Mark Englehart
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| upc: |
717951002280 |
| title: |
The Faculty |
| theatricalDate: |
25-12-1998 |
| stars: |
Jordana Brewster
Clea DuVall |
| purchase date: |
17-02-2005 |
| publisher: |
Dimension Home Video |
| published: |
01-06-2004 |
| price: |
$14.98 |
| net Rating: |
4.16 |
| MPAA Rating: |
R |
| last lookup time: |
130402248 |
| genre: |
Science Fiction |
| edition: |
DVD |
| director: |
Robert Rodriguez |
| currentValue: |
$10.95 |
| created: |
130402240 |
| aspect: |
Color
Closed-captioned
Widescreen |
| asin: |
6305428220
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