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The Faculty

Director: Kevin Williamson
100 minutes (15) Buena Vista
review by Rob Marshall

A basic yet likeable video grab of SF-horror ideas cut from the slime bloated corpus of skiffy cinema, The Faculty concerns aliens taking over a high school. A variation on The Puppet Masters remixed with John Carpenter's The Thing it's served up in a no-brain-required format to please the Buffy crowd. Robert Rodriguez directs almost anonymously, and it's really down to guest stars like ex-Bond girl Famke Janssen and Robert (Terminator 2: Judgment Day) Patrick to carry the show between the copious special effects. About the only thing of genuine interest here is the use of illicit drugs (that's taking drugs not testing for them) by a group of 'outlaw' students, to determine who's who and what's what before the grand finale with the monstrous alien queen in the school's gym.

Rob Marshall
originally published online in VideoVista #13, April 2000 issue

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