Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
When some very creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.
The Faculty is a competent and entertaining late-90s genre mashup that wears its Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Thing influences openly. Robert Rodriguez brings kinetic energy and some stylish direction, keeping things moving at a brisk pace with solid cinematography for a teen horror film. The ensemble cast — featuring a mix of young stars and veteran character actors — delivers serviceable work that suits the material, though no one is asked to stretch particularly far. The plot is familiar body-snatchers territory given a high school social hierarchy twist, which adds modest freshness but the concept is well-worn. The ending leans into wish-fulfillment convenience and wraps up a little too neatly, undercutting the paranoid tension built throughout. Novelty suffers most — it's essentially a knowing, self-aware remix of prior sci-fi horror classics without adding much that's genuinely its own. A fun, watchable genre entry that doesn't transcend its derivative foundations.