Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, and Usher in The Faculty (1998)

The Faculty

Movie#15651711998R1h 44m
HorrorMysterySci-Fi
6.6 / 10(147,659)

When Casey Connor, Herrington High School's newspaper photographer, witnesses the murder of a nurse and sees her alive again, he decides to investigate the bizarre happenings.

Rated
R
Runtime
1h 44m
Released
1998
Country
United States, Mexico

Details

Release year: 1998

Storyline

When Casey Connor, Herrington High School's newspaper photographer, witnesses the murder of a nurse and sees her alive again, he decides to investigate the bizarre happenings.

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Did you know

It was on the set of this film that Harry Jay Knowles first got wind of Peter Jackson making The Lord of the Rings into a movie. He urged Elijah Wood to go for it even though the actor had never read the book. Which Wood duly did, ignoring the news that Jackson was largely casting British actors and videotaped his own audition.

The drug test scene is an homage to the blood test in The Thing (1982).

During a retrospective interview for Halloween H20, Josh Hartnett acknowledged his controversial hair style that can be seen in that film and The Faculty. Both productions hated it. But Hartnett intentionally kept cutting his own hair and messing it up to look more like an authentic teen. These antics led to fights with producers and the director of H20 who wanted him fired. Ultimately that did not occur and Hartnett finished both films.

Box Office

Gross (Domestic): $40,283,321

Opening Weekend (Domestic): $11,633,495 (1998-12-27)

User reviews

7/10

Breakfast Club meets The Thing

👍 98 · 1/29/2008
8/10

Sparkling '90s sci-fi/horror hybrid fun!

👍 52 · 8/3/2011
7/10

Very Much 1990s

👍 22 · 9/30/2015

Technical specs

Sound mix
DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect ratio
1.85 : 1
Color
Color

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