"Guaranteed to jack you up."
Borrowing heavily from the
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
idea, THE FACULTY is about a small group of teenagers who start to notice
weird shit going on at their high school. Turns out the faculty and most
of their fellow students have been taken over by some outer space buttholes
and if they don't stop 'em they're gonna take over the world!
As far as high school sci-fi horror movies go, THE FACULTY isn't too
bad. If you saw it as a teen back in '98 you probably have a special
affection for it, but even without that it still holds up alright. The
story is about as unoriginal as it gets, but the acting is good and it was a
lot of fun seeing a young Elijah Wood gettin' all stressed out and chased by a
multi-tentacled monster.
Poorly lit (fake) topless scene, nice pace, worms, boring direction, a mic hanging down into the shot, a Venom shirt, a little blood, stereotypical high school cliques, zero gore.
