Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 47
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 23
Rip-off of other sci-fi thrillers.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 4
Rip-off of other sci-fi thrillers.
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Miramax Films darlings Robert Rodriguez and screenwriter Kevin Williamson teamed up for a high-school alien-horror film that they described as The Breakfast Club meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Dilapidated Herrington High is the location for a story about a school faculty taken over by outer-space creatures, forcing the students to take charge and kick some alien butt. School faculty members (Robert Patrick, Bebe Neuwirth, Salma Hayek, and Jon Stewart) are infested with rapidly reproducing
Dec 25, 1998 Wide
Jun 15, 1999
All Critics (53) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (24) | DVD (16)
Since the codes of science fiction are different from horror's cant, the patented Williamson method doesn't make a perfect fit with the material; Faculty's fun, but less fun than it could be.
Just whiskers away from being really snazzy, "The Faculty" still manages to make for a fun night out.
The Kevin Williamson formula (rewrite familiar horror scenarios and have the characters note the familiarity) has gotten to be a bore, and in this case it makes no sense.
A crappy teen horror movie, but in director Robert Rodriguez's hands it's at least agreeably crappy.
This smart, involving sci-fi picture, set in an Ohio high school, pays homage to several genre faves, notably Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Thing.
A moviegoer looking for an empty-headed waste of time could do worse.
The sci-fi/horror genre could take a lesson from "The Faculty."
...meant to remind us of other fright films, but to little purpose.
Williamson's take-it-apart-and-put-it-back-together stitchmanship has become an arduous borefest.
The Faculty consistently draws attention to its own ill-joined cracks and seams.
A decidedly average film with flashes of inspiration.
This movie is such a cheeseball. It's funny to watch...and it's a good movie. But it's not gonna win any oscars. But hey.... Not all movies have to.
February 6, 2012Super Reviewer
A disarmingly clever, subversive sci-fi/actioner, The Faculty nonetheless is burdened a bit by being caught in Scream's overwhelming shadow. As some critics have noted, Kevin Williamson's constant dismantling of whatever genre he's operating in offers plenty of surprises at the actual textual level, but on the whole
January 21, 2007Super Reviewer
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