The Faculty (DVD)

...going to eventually realise that the key to a successful movie has nothing whatsoever to do with how famous the cast is.? Okay so the majority of films that make money are bursting with celebrities, but this should not detract from the fact that films with unknowns are potentially just as popular. Take ‘The Usual Suspects’, a mixture of semi famous faces and total unknowns, now one of the most popular films of the nineties, and also famous ...
...Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman. The director of both movies is incidentally Bryan Singer, who was himself unheard of and is now one of the most celebrated young directors today. This just proves how the cast is not what the audience really judges a film on, of course the cast matters but my point is that a good film with new actors is miles better than a bad film with famous actors. ‘The Faculty’, then is similar to ‘The Usual Suspects’, ...

willgould 01.07.2001 (21.07.2001) · Read full review
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...soon as I heard all the reviews on the web and boy was I disappointed. The film is about a US high school called Herrington High and the strange things that are going on there, and this is where my interest in the film seemed to end, After a few reasonable events a group of kids find out that their teachers have actually been taking over by a bunch of parasitic aliens. The problem with this is the bunch of kids that get together to take on the ...
...it’s not entertaining anymore. The group is headed up by a rebel by the name of Zeke played by Josh Hartnett he is of course the slacker who deals drugs never attends classes but has a very impressive IQ. Next is Elijah Wood who plays Casey the weakling of the group who is the one we are supposed to feel for but I just didn’t care about his character at all, in fact I did a times just want him to get a pole through the head (I’m ...

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The Faculty is a teenage Science Fiction film that asks you to meet the alien generation. The film was released in 1998 and has a hot young cast, which includes Josh Hartnett and Elijah Wood. Now this film certainly isn't one that I would class as in my favourites but somehow it is a film that I keep coming back to. I think the reasoning behind this is the fact that despite the cast being relatively young the acting is more than decent. Furthermore ...
...for it's 100-minute duration. The film is based within Herrington High School where some very creepy things have started to happen. Now I'm sure at one point or another you've wondered whether your teachers are really aliens but at this school that is exactly the case and some chilling discoveries by the students confirm their worst suspicions. As the mind-controlling parasites spread rapidly from the faculty to the students it is ultimately a small ...

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...anyone familiar with Invasion of the Body Snatchers and other such similar stories will probably be offended by this new age re-make. Which is essentially all it is. I'm not saying its a bad film and it's worth at least one watch for the plot line that drugs aint bad, drugs're good. Yes pish posh me all you like but once aliens have taken over, the local genius' drugs supply is apparently the only way to other throw the alien race smart enough to ...
...and gradually it spreads to the rest of them. Then they start on the students and towns folk in an attempt to spread their message of emotionless droning control. Of course there is the kid who knows something is wrong and recurits others in an attempt to fight the onslaught of water loving celestial creatures. The narrative follows the basic codes and convnetions of horror/sci fi with the establishing shots and intro to the main cast. There's the ...

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...fans were quite excited when the 'in' writer of Scream and Director Robert Rodriguez were working together on a film that was pitched as a sci-fi horror flick that echoed Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The end result is 'The Faculty', it's an entertaining film and better than most of the teen horror flicks at the time. But considering the talent involved you can't help but feel this should have been better. The film is basically set at a school ...
...point of caring. The students meanwhile are the usual mixture of misfits and cool kids. One day a geeky kid named casey discovers an unknown organism on the football field. An event occurs and it appears that the teachers have all has personality changes. The dowdy english teacher is now very foxy and sexually charged. The sports coach has gone from an angry driven individual to a very relaxed guy while the jaded history teacher suddenly has a new ...

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Released in 1998, The Faculty is a movie directed by Robert Rodriguez, who previously directed hit movies Desperado and From Dusk Til Dawn, and who has since continued his success directing the likes of Sin City. The Faculty stars a number of young actors, who at the time were up and coming, and who have since gone on to become very successful names in the movie business. These include Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Jordana Brewster and r&b star Usher. ...
...event, begin to suspect that the teachers at their high school are actually not of this world. As the changing attitudes of the teaching staff, and by now students also, becomes stranger and stranger, their suspicions are finally confirmed. As the entire town gets taken over by this alien parasite, they fear that they are the only few left in the town yet to be infected. They come across a way to kill the parasite, and must find and terminate the ...

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This film was originally at the cinemas in 1998 and I recently bought a copy on DVD as I loved it when I saw it the first time. MAIN CAST Casey (Elijah Wood- also in Deep Impact and Lord of the Rings) Coach Willis (Robert Patrick- also the bad terminator in Terminator 2) Delilah (Jordanna Brewster) Stan (Shawn Hatosy) Stokely (Clea DuVall) Marybeth (Laura Harris) Zeke (Josh Hartnett- also in Wicker Park, Halloween H20) Nurse Harper (Salma ...
...Cheers) THE PLOT The film is based around the students and teachers of Herrington High School. The faculty members of the school are slowly acting more and more strangely- they become more confident, aggressive and glamorous whilst drinking constant and copious amounts of water....... Needless to say they have been infected by an extraterrestrial parasite which has turned all of them in to aliens, with the goal of infecting and transforming everyone ...

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...to renting out videos from the local video shop and last night myself and my boyfriend decided to see what The Faculty was like. I had heard many good things about it from various friends and they all said it was a good film. After seeing it i can fully agree that this is a great film!! Im not usually into the sci-fi genre of movies but this one was a real eye-opener for me! The general jist of The Faculty is that there are aliens taking over the ...
...victim of all the school bullies finds a new species on the playing field. It turns ou that once in water or inside humans it comes alive and controls whatever it is living in. After just a day and a half, the entire school except for a group of friends have been taken over by the alien-teachers and it is the groups job to hunt down the head alien and inject it with a special drug that kills the alien brings and returns the students back to the normal ...

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...do we have to get the poster with the 5 main characters standing there in a "V" shape looking dorky, with a black background? It's a blatant rip off of the original scream posters, which is probably copied from somewhere before that! Anyway now on to the film. It's alright, aliens have landed and have taken control of a teacher's body. He turns the rest of the teachers to aliens, a couple of dorky kids get suspicious, but before they can do anything ...
...So the dork squad have to try to stop them. The problem with this film is that there is not one likeable cast member. They all come across as a bunch of geeks, and losers, and i wanted them all to die! The effects are great, and the story's not that bad. See it, you might like it. ...

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...actresses. My favourite actor is the one who acted Zeke. He is a drug dealer who haas a crash with his English teacher. My favourite actress is Clea Duvall, acted Stokely who has a black, smoky make-up which I'd really like. My favourite scene in this film was when the left over students who hasn't turned into an alien, went to Zeke's home. There they sniff the 'magic dust' to see if anyone of them is an alien or not. That part is very exciting. ...

saintsfanuk 18.11.2000 · Read full review
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Although a little far-fetched, the general plot to this film is actually rather interesting. I won't give too much away, but the general plot is that aliens over take a school in America, and aim to over-take everyone on earth, starting with the school. It all starts when the school geek finds a new species on the playing field, who then takes it to his biology teacher for examination. This "New Species" is really a small alien, that over-takes ...
...at the school have already been over-taken by the strange creature, and begin trying to infect the students. Luckily, there are a small group of students who have realised what is going on and avoid the infection process. They then discover that Zeke, who is a trader of almost everything in the school, has some kind of drug that kills the alien inside the humans by drying them out. The only thing is, it also kills the human too. They then realise, ...

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...and was pleasantly surprised. The film is well structured, and tenacious. It starts off very well, with a gripping scene which makes a good start. The film continues, with most of the film not particularly scary. Towards the end, it can be a little scary, but is also quite funny. The film is based on a group of teenagers in an American High School, who find out that their school is being taken over by aliens. The problem being that they don't know ...

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Directed by Robert Rodriguez, the man behind Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn, I expected The Faculty to be a fast-paced action movie involving guns and explosions. Unfortunately, I was wrong. Instead, I got a high school teen drama thingy mixed with a bit of horror and sci-fi stuff. But I persevered, and continued watching till the end – and it does get better, with a few very good moments. The story is nothing special – aliens are trying to take ...
...is with one of the kids’ homemade drugs. The cast is monopolised by young upstarts, the only established actors being Robert Patrick (the best thing about the film, in my opinion) and Salma Hayek. But they do perform well, the main group of kids being especially good. The special effects are quite good and believeable, and the music is pretty good too. However, there are no special features on the DVD, whuich would have been nice. But despite the ...

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...over a person’s body. The film started out straight into the action, the Faculty (staff) of the high school have a meeting late at night to discuss the school’s funds. This meeting ends and they leave the building, but the Principle forgets her keys for the front entrance and goes back for them in her office. A fellow teacher who asks for a pencil (very strange I know) then surprises her. He asks for a pencil several times (as the Principle ...
...gives him the pencil, not knowing that he would stab this into her hand. The Principle escapes this man by locking the door, whilst another female teacher stands outside trying to help her. Once the Principle locks the door and turns to the teacher she attacks her. This very predictable story line is amusing to watch and also a way off breaking down societies stereotypes. First we have an “outcast” girl, Stokley, who has no true friends ...

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...Kevin Williamson released Scream 2, the two collaborated to produce The Faculty. In many ways, this is Williamson's best work, whereas in the Scream movies his movie references, while clever, feel contrived, forced, here he makes references to science fiction books and movies in a science fictional situation. Think, if aliens suddenly landed in your high school, how would you refer to things other than what you'd seen on TV and in movies?. It's ...
...alienating. This is the nightmare vision of all our high schools, the place that scares freshmen with tales of being stuffed into lockers and, as we see in a brilliant long-take and a particularly painful shot, rammed into a flagpole. It also helps that the cast here is large; it's an ensemble piece. Here we see six high-school students (and they all really look like high school students, something that helps the film a lot) who seem to live in ...

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