Almost everything about this movie is stupid - a school full of kids who brawl in the corridors like wild animals and become angelic students in class who sit up and listen attentively to even the most boring teachers, a cheap mixture of drugs that can soak up several hundred times its own weight in water, a high school Biology teacher whose knowledge about marine organisms would match that of a world specialist, etc, etc, etc. And yet it manages to be compulsively watchable. The direction is actually very good, and the acting is at least passable. Fortunately it didn't take itself too seriously (at least I hope it didn't). I was particularly impressed by the way it pointed out that The Invasion of the Body Snatchers was a take-off of The Puppet Masters, and then shamelessly proceeded to rip off both of them.
Review of The Faculty
