#36 - The Faculty (1998)
(dir. Robert Rodriguez)
The teachers at Herrington High are slowly being taken over by alien parasites, and a group of students are the only thing standing between them and world domination. This movie has a pretty stacked cast of '90s actors - Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood (who looks like he is 12 here), Famke Janssen, Salma Hayek, Usher, Robert Patrick, and Jon Stewart, among others. Directed by Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn, Planet Terror) and written by Kevin Williamson (Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer), this is a really fun film that I think often gets overlooked.
The first half of this film is a riff on Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but by the end it is basically The Thing set in a high school. It mimics one of the best scenes of Carpenter's film, where all the characters take turns testing themselves to prove they aren't aliens, and later on even has a severed head grow limbs and scuttle away. A lot of the effects are CGI, but the ones that are practical look really great. As you might expect from Rodriguez, this film has a great sense of humor and pretty much all of it holds up really well, which is more than I can say about the jokes in many '90s comedies.
If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. It's a ton of fun and one of the best horror films of the late '90s.
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