Reviews

To be far too brief, this is a very funny throw-back to the silent-movie-era farce movies (remember the Marx brothers?). This movie sports an absolutely fabulous cast of (actual) thespians, a funny plot, and not too shabby directing (by Tucci, who also wrote and stars). If you know ANYTHING about actual theater acting, or just really like funny movies, go see this wonderful jewel of a movie.

Ok, let me start off by saying; IT'S NOT THAT BAD, DAMMIT! Ok, that might be a stretch, it is pretty bad. But I liked it... and I feel extremely guilty for it, so there! Was it the cheesy plot? Super-Evolved killer geckos in what seems to be Alaska (but in reality is New Zealand (What the fuzzy monkeys you ask? So do I). Was it the lack of meaningful nudity when it SO COULD HAVE BEEN THERE (down boy)... or was it the fact that the scientist guy somehow reminded me of Bruce Cambell from Evil Dead II... at least in the convenience store at the end.... with the flaming broom... and he also kinda looked like Brandon Lee from the crow at one point.... don't ask, I was heavily sedated at the time of writing this. What it fails to deliver in actual thrills or scares, it seems to make up for in campy, schlocky, tongue in cheek goodness. While it's not that bad, it's not that good.

But if you've got nothing better to do on a dark and stormy night when the pillars of heaven are shaking and the earth is opening up ready to swallow you whole, and you see this in the video rental place, and you're not sure about it, you just kick back and ask yourself what old Jack Burton might say...

y'know what he'd say?

What the hell?

Oh Golly, where can I begin?

This is state of the art mind boggling (and occasionally numbing) garbage with little if any purpose whatsoever.... I loved it! I had been hoping to catch this on HBO for monthes, and I got my chance about a week ago. And it was good.... oh it was so good!

I'd rank this up there with "Space Balls", if you love cheesy sci-fi with no meaning, real plot or storyline, and no real reason for being made, check this out....

I can't believe Roger Corman wasn't somehow involved....

****1/2 / ***** Keep on Rockin'

I saw the Faculty a while ago, and let me tell you, I felt sick after walking out of the movie theatre. I don't get sick often... but this movie did it for me. Now, don't get me wrong, I love a good bad movie, but this flick was E-V-I-L what does it spell? EVIL PURE AND UNADULTERATED EVIL AGGGGHHHHHH!!!!

Kill me.

Anyway, the concept was a bad re-hash of invasion of the body snatchers, (as I'm sure everybody else already pointed out), the acting was alright... in that bad kinda way, the special effects were good, the storyline made me cry and cry like a little girl for hours and hours.

This is basically a trendy new teeny-bopper horror flick which, instead of featuring a knife wielding psycho in a mask (ala scream), it features a giant alien... that dehydrates easily... I guess it's sweaty. It's like watching Dawson's Creek... with an alien! I hate UPN

In summation, this is just a bad piece of trash that has a "teen" angle, and a sci fi angle, it accomplishes the former in that kind of bastardized way that makes you angry, and doesn't accomplish the latter at all... plot holes... OH GOD THE PLOT HOLES! As a teen, it offends me that the movie studios are trying to pass this junk off to us as "hip and scary", I guess I'm not that hip, the faculty shoulda stayed in the lounge (stupid pun, I know)

0/5

I am a big John Carpenter Fan, in fact, the only reason I started using this data base was to find out more about his movies. So I must warn you, my comments may not be ENTIRELY objective, but what the heck, right?

This is a very cool, somewhat campy movie consisting of Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, and Adrienne Barbeau (back in the day when her and Johnny boy were hitched). The plot is sorta corny, I'll admit (ghost pirates... oooh scary!) but John Carpenter Pulls it off so well! The tension mounts as strange occurrences begin happening (a gold coin turns into a piece of driftwood, which has the word DANE on it, which later Re-letters itself to 6 MUST DIE, fog that goes against the wind, mysterious disappearances, the works).

I'm telling you, this movie is just a lot of fun to watch. I saw it for the first time a few years ago on that oh so wonderful show "Monster Vision" on TNT, and I haven't been able to get over how cool this movie is. If you're a fan of horror movies, love suspense, but don't like a whole lot of gore (Carpenter rarely uses a lot of blood in his movies) or just looking for a cool movie to watch with friends and loved ones, THE FOG is your ticket, go out and rent it today... trust me, if you don't like it, I'll... I'll... awww shoot, can't think of anything JUST RENT IT!