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This is great little freak movie lol its funny and adventerous dont see many like this anymore!

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Posted apr 5, 2007 5:13 pm pt

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Great little sci-fi flick. Don't get too dry or you'll die.. It was actually really interesting, the acting in it is the most surprising, most of it is actually understated instead of overstated like in most Alien Invasion movies. Elijiah Wood is...
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Great little sci-fi flick. Don't get too dry or you'll die.. It was actually really interesting, the acting in it is the most surprising, most of it is actually understated instead of overstated like in most Alien Invasion movies. Elijiah Wood is awesome.

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Posted feb 19, 2007 1:23 am pt

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I remember seeing this movie a few years back, and I liked it so much I taped it. I just saw it again yesterday, and it's still very good.

It's basically a present-day version of 'The Body Snatchers', only with really thirsty brain...
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I remember seeing this movie a few years back, and I liked it so much I taped it. I just saw it again yesterday, and it's still very good.

It's basically a present-day version of 'The Body Snatchers', only with really thirsty brain slugs. It's aimed at a youth audience, with themes such as 'adults vs teens', 'authority vs the masses', 'teachers vs students', as well as including tons of that weird soapy-drama of 'boy likes girl', 'girl likes boy', 'teacher likes boy', 'gym coach is possibly a boy phaedophile'. There's also a portion of drug use, cursing, 'The Breakfast Club' clique divisions, and violent displays of cool movie effects.

All-star cast: including Josh Harnett (from Lucky Number Sleven), Robert Patrick (the bad Terminator from Terminator 2), Jon Stewart (of the Jon Stewart show), Danny Masterson (Hyde from that 70s Show), and Elijah Wood (from Lord of the Rings). I'm still trying to figure out which actress is hottest; Famke Janssen (from X-Men), Laura Harris (from Dead Like Me), Bebe Neuwirth (from Cheers), or Clea DuVall (a hot, pseudo-lesbian). Oh, and there's also Salma Hayek, but she's not really hot.

Sometimes, this movie is really bad. Not so bad you'd want to turn it off, just B-Movie bad, so that makes it funny. At one point the characters are ordering someone to take cocaine or get shot, which would probably surprise someone just tuning in.

WITHOUT A DOUBT: Stokes is the worst nickname ever given to anyone. I don't care if you work as a professional stoker, Stokes is without a doubt the stupidest, worst nickname that has ever been thought up. (If you're going to have characters yelling eachother's names a lot, you shouldn't name your character Stokley, Stokes, or any variation.)

Movie Poster: It is sort of strange that the movie poster features Usher Raymond (a basic nobody in the film), who is in the spot of Shawn Hatosy (one of the six main characters).

It's a really good movie, with a surprise twist ending, as well as one of those happy endings, where everyone goes home with a loot bag. Go watch it, before the invaders come and take over your brain.

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Posted feb 18, 2007 3:46 am pt

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A thrilling, suspenseful and interesting movie about a creature taking over the entire school will keep you on the edge of your seat since the beginning 'till the end. A classic.

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Posted jan 27, 2007 7:09 pm pt

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jon abrahams was so hot as usual!!!!!!

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Posted jan 18, 2007 3:40 am pt

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This movie is awesome. It does not particulary is scary, but imagine the whole town being against you, that must be cruel and strange. Oh, my god, Elijah Wood was perfect in this movie, though he was not the central character, this movie was so...
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This movie is awesome. It does not particulary is scary, but imagine the whole town being against you, that must be cruel and strange. Oh, my god, Elijah Wood was perfect in this movie, though he was not the central character, this movie was so cool and it is one of my all time favorite movies ever! One of the coolest!

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Posted jan 2, 2007 4:20 am pt

• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  90
  A smart, lively and unpretentious exploitation picture...Consistently funny and clever.

  by Kevin Thomas | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  80
  Results may not be Nobel Prize material, but they're zesty and cogent.

  by Dennis Harvey | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  80
  Rodriguez's unironic directing brings out the complexity of characters painfully aware of the stereotypes they represent and allows this gripping, scary, and romantic movie to offer more than factoids about other movies the filmmakers have seen too many times.

  by Lisa Alspector | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  80
  A tight blend of self-awareness, humor and fear.

  by Paul Malcolm | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  78
  A slam-bang, sci-fi actioner, relentlessly paced and edited, with a pounding soundtrack and some ingenious aliens courtesy of Berni Wrightson and KNB Effects.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  75
  Sly and very savvy.

  by Bob Graham | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  75
  This alien high school sci-fi tale has clever wit, clever FX.

  by Dave Kehr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
  70
  It's an awfully enjoyable, hip little B-movie.

  by Charles Taylor | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  70
  Fine lowbrow entertainment, a fast, funny pastiche of science-fiction, horror, and teen-movie archetypes that is, aside from the original Scream, perhaps the most entertaining, fully realized film of the current postmodern horror/sci-fi cycle.

  by Nathan Rabin | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
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  It looks like Williamson threw five old scripts in the air and Rodriguez shot the first 90 pages he picked up. I'd like a little more meat on my burger because all I can taste is the cheese.

  by Ron Wells | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  60
  Since the codes of science fiction are different from horror's cant, the patented Williamson method doesn't make a perfect fit with the material; Faculty's fun, but less fun than it could be.

  by Gary Dauphin | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  58
  In a strange way the Williamson of "Dawson's Creek" is now at odds with the sophisticated joker who wrote "Scream."

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
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  Exactly the kind of sporadically clever, button-pushing fright-fest that keeps genre fans hanging on until something more fulfilling comes along.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Examiner
  
  50
  The Faculty deserves a week of detention, not so much for missing the point as for blunting it.

  by Allan Ulrich | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
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  All the young actors, especially Joshua Hartnett as the misunderstood drug dealer, deliver fine performances in their diverse group, which forms a kind of horror film equivalent of "The Breakfast Club." [25 Dec 1998]

  by Monica Eng | Read Full Review »