The Faculty (DVD)

Robert Rodriguez is one of the most diverse and interesting filmmakers working today - from this low-budget origins in films such as El Mariachi and Desperado, to Spy Kids, to his more recent outing Planet Terror, he's dabbled in a variety of genres. One of the lesser works attributed to his canon is The Faculty, a B-movie-esque science fiction film that boasts a good cast, and is rather fun throughout. The premise is simple - alien parasites are taking over a school, turning everyone into emotionless, affectionless automatons, beginning with the staff and then setting their sights on the students. Robert Patrick plays a PE teacher who is a particular threat, ...  Read the complete review

Robert Rodriguez's 1998 film The Faculty is a decent teen horror/sci-fi film with an impressive cast and a god plot. The film came at a time when teen films were the rage in the mid-90s. This, mixed with the sci-fi element, gives us a thoroughly entertaining hour and a half of suspense and alien horror! A serious of bizarre events convinces a couple of students at a faculty that their teachers are no longer teachers, and have been taken over by some kind of invading aliens who take over humans' bodies and use them to spread in an attempt to control the entire human race. Only a small handful of students realise the danger, but can they do anything about it ...  Read the complete review

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 the film doesn't take itself too seriously and is merely a piece of light entertainment that odes to be perfectly honest keep you entertained for it's 100-minute duration. The film is based within ...  Read the complete review

The Faculty, teen scare flick from 1998 is about a parasitic creature that left it’s own world because it had dried up of fluid and all moisture and escaped to Earth. The alien chooses a school in Ohio (Herrington High) to then spread itself across the earth. It does this by multiplying and entering the victim through the ear splashing blood all over the place and then sucking up all the moisture of the person. In turn it then controls the person mentally and physically. The same process is then used to spread “itself” from person to person. Soon all of The Faculty (teachers) are infected and snatched by this creature. This creature also infects most of ...  Read the complete review

As you would have probably guessed by the title, The Faculy is a thriller about aliens. It is rated 15 for the reasons that a lot of blood and guts are involved in the film. The Faculty stars Josh Hartnett (Pearl Harbor) along with a few others. There is quite a basic plot and it is very obvious throughout the film who the culprit is. But amazingly this doesn't affect the enjoyableness of the film. It all starts when a new girl arrives at the school (see what I mean by obvious!). Strange things happen, at the start of the film we see a football coach stick a pencil through a teachers hand, pretty disgusting! These teachers are being turned into aliens, one ...  Read the complete review