Review of The Faculty

The Faculty (1998)
1/10
One word: terrible!
25 April 1999
"The Faculty" is a no-brainer piece of trash that is neither funny, entertaining, or original in any way.

The story is basically "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" meets "The Breakfast Club". Aliens slowly take over the bodies of the teachers, and a group of outcast high school students are the only ones who know it. It takes a while for all of them to understand what is happening, but by then it is too late. Now it is them against the entire faculty. How's that for a lame story line. I can only guess that this movie is aimed at teenagers, but I don't know many teens who liked it.

The script by Kevin Williamson offers nothing new, it simply tries to repeat the success of "Scream" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer". There is the lame dialogue from the heroes, the one-liners that don't work, and the usual masturbation and sex jokes ("No more flogging the Bishop, son").

Simply put, I have seen movies like this done a thousand times before, and a thousand times better. You'd be better off renting "Scream".
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