“Take me to your teacher.”
: The characters use a homemade drug called "Skat"—made from crushed caffeine pills—to identify and kill the aliens, as it dehydrates them. the faculty
Ultimately, The Faculty is a blast of pure adrenaline. It is loud, stylish, and unapologetically entertaining. It reminds us that high school is a war zone, but if you stick together with your friends—even the ones you have nothing in common with—you might just survive the night. “Take me to your teacher
Over time, The Faculty has aged remarkably well. It is now considered a definitive late-90s horror gem. Its themes of media distrust (Delilah’s journalism), institutional gaslighting (“You’re just being paranoid”), and the need for outsiders to band together resonate in the 21st century. The film also predicted the rise of “elevated horror” by balancing social commentary with creature features. It reminds us that high school is a
Released in 1998, the film is a slick, high-energy hybrid of The Breakfast Club and Invasion of the Body Snatchers . While it didn’t receive the critical adoration of its contemporaries upon release, a retrospective look reveals a film that perfectly captured the anxieties of the late 90s teenage experience while delivering some of the most memorable creature effects of the decade.
On its surface, The Faculty is a B-movie thrill ride. But like all great teen horror, it functions as allegory.