DVD Movie Rating for: The Faculty

2 out of 5 stars

Movie Plot of: The Faculty

Herrington High, Ohio, a small-town highschool. All of a sudden, the teachers start changing attitude. When Casey and Delilah have to hide in a closet in the teacher's lounge, they witness the strangulation of Nurse Harper by two of them. Shocked, they manage to flee. Only moments later, the nurse seems to be very alive, but also somehow changed, like all the teachers and most of the students. Only Casey, Delilah and four others seem to be suspicious. Proof of an alien infection is finally brought by the chemistry teacher, who also points out a way to kill the infected humans. The plan now is to get the queen, before the aliens can spread out over the whole country.

DVD Production Details of: The Faculty

Starring: Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Salma Hayek

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen

Studio: Dimension Home Video

DVD Release Date: May 6, 2003
DVD Features:
Theatrical trailer(s)

Widescreen letterbox format

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Cast of the movie: The Faculty

• Jordana Brewster.... Delilah Profitt
• Clea DuVall .... Stokely 'Stokes' Mitchell
• Laura Harris .... Marybeth Louise Hutchinson
• Josh Hartnett .... Zeke Wells
• Shawn Hatosy .... Stan Rosado
• Elijah Wood .... Casey Connor
• Salma Hayek.... Nurse Rosa Harper
• Famke Janssen.... Miss Elizabeth Burke
• Piper Laurie .... Mrs. Karen Olson
• Christopher McDonald .... Mr. Frank Connor
• Bebe Neuwirth .... Principal Valerie Drake
• Usher Raymond .... Gabe Santora
• Robert Patrick .... Coach Joe Willis
• Jon Stewart .... Prof. Edward Furlong
• Daniel von Bargen .... Mr. John Tate

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Reviews of the movie: The Faculty

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 Scream's Kevin Williamson, the master of the post-modern teen horror film. Directed by Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi), it's The Breakfast Club meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 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 Terminator 2. Go to the head of the class, Mr. Williamson.

A high school and eventually the citizens of a small football town seem to not be themselves lately. It appears they have been token over by an alien and the few remaining outcasts have to find a way to stop it before it takes over the world. Tightly edited, hip, happening horror / sci.-fi flick with style to burn, memorable dialogue, and a great cast.