The Faculty

• Horror
• Science Fiction

A creeping sense of paranoia consumes Herrington High as students begin noticing unsettling changes in their teachers – a disturbing shift beyond typical adolescent anxieties. This isn’t a standard alien invasion story; it's a tightly-wound, darkly comedic horror fueled by teenage outsider perspectives and a claustrophobic, small-town atmosphere. The film uniquely blends body horror with social commentary, subtly exploring anxieties around conformity, social hierarchies, and adolescent alienation through the lens of a parasitic threat. Rather than grand-scale destruction, the invasion plays out as a quiet, insidious replacement, generating a uniquely unsettling tension as trust erodes amongst friends and the very authority figures meant to protect them. The focus remains intensely local, amplifying the feeling of vulnerability and the desperate, resourceful struggle of a mismatched group forced to confront an unimaginable horror in the most familiar of settings.