The Faculty . Tucson Weekly . 01-11-99

The Faculty

DIRECTED BY: Robert Rodriguez

REVIEWED: 01-11-99

Scriptwriter Kevin Williamson (Scream), the John Hughes of the '90s, updates the horror-science fiction classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers for a hilarious and clever teen film that explores something we all suspected--that our high school teachers were aliens. Piper Laurie, Jon Stewart, et al. play teachers whose bodies play host to alien parasites that strive to take over the world...or if that doesn't work out, Ohio. A handful of students, among them Zeke the Burnout (Josh Hartnett), Casey the Nerd (Elijah Wood), and Delilah the Socialite (Jordana Brewster), figure this out and spend much of the film searching for the Queen Alien. The well-written script places these incompatible teens in numerous Breakfast Clubesque situations, such as one in which all have to snort crushed caffeine pills to prove they're still human. As with Scream, The Faculty is very much of its time, with the now-obligatory references to popular culture, Neve Campbell, and poking fun at the slasher film convention of showing teenage T&A.

--Higgins

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