History Film / TheFaculty

* TheCameo: By Ain't It Cool News' Harry Knowles, of all people.

* [[DrillSergeantNasty Gym Teacher Nasty]]: Coach Harris is shown acting like this before he gets infected, even greeting the alien with a dismissive "Yeah? What?" as it approaches him via MurdererPOV. Getting taken over by the alien parasite gives him a far more cool and composed attitude, to the point of shrugging off the star quarterback Stan's announcement that he's quitting the team.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's not confirmed if [[spoiler: Principal Drake]] and [[spoiler: Mr Furlong]] are actually dead. Both were seemingly killed off during the attacks. But Miss Burke was decapitated and turns up alive at the end, and [[spoiler:Mr. Furlong is shown during the credits, teaching with an eyepatch and bandaged hand. Principle Drake is alive and well later in the movie, specifically at the 33 minute mark.]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's not confirmed if [[spoiler: Principal Drake]] and [[spoiler: Mr Furlong]] are actually dead. Both were seemingly killed off during the attacks. But Miss Burke was decapitated and turns up alive at the end, and [[spoiler:Mr. Furlong is shown during the credits, teaching with an eyepatch and bandaged hand]].

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[[SixStudentClique Six students]], however, manage to find out what's going on: [[HollywoodNerd nerdy kid]] and school newspaper photographer Casey Connor (Creator/ElijahWood), [[AlphaBitch queen bitch]] Delilah Profitt (Creator/JordanaBrewster), {{Goth}} chick Stokely Mitchell (Creator/CleaDuVall), [[{{Delinquents}} drug-dealing delinquent]] Zeke Tyler (Creator/JoshHartnett), [[DumbJock academically-challenged football player]] Stan Rosado (Shawn Hatosy), and {{new transfer student}} Marybeth Louise Hutchinson (Laura Harris). Together, they set out to put a stop to the aliens, armed only with Zeke's drugs -- which are instantly fatal to the aliens -- and [[GenreSavvy their knowledge]] of AlienInvasion movies like ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers''.

* SixStudentClique:
** The head: Zeke
** The muscle: Stan
** The quirk: Casey
** The pretty one: Delilah
** The smart one: Marybeth. [[spoiler:She is, after all, [[BigBad the mastermind]] of the AlienInvasion.]]
** The wild one: Stokely

* AliensInCardiff: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. When one character claims that it would be absurd for aliens to secretly invade via a HighSchool in a small town and brainwash the population, another GenreSavvy character points out that this would attract a lot less attention than attacking a big city, which the whole world will notice. See the page quote.

** Several movies and books about aliens get name-dropped by the characters, including ''[[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]]'', ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1956'', ''Literature/ThePuppetMasters'' and ''Film/IndependenceDay'', with one reference to the latter movie providing the page quote.

* JumpScare: Early on, when Casey, Delilah, Stan and Stokely are talking about aliens taking over the school in a classroom, Zeke bursts into the room with an unexpected yell making Casey jump. Later, almost near the end of the film, Zeke does the exact same thing, unintentionally and Casey jumps yet again. Sure, there's other jump scares in this film, but it seems like Zeke really loves just scaring the absolute shit out of Casey for the hell of it...

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[[caption-width-right:350:The Main Five: Stokely, Delilah, Zeke, Casey and Stan]]

* EvilOverlooker: [[spoiler:Marybeth's face at the back of the poster certainly qualifies.]]

* CoversAlwaysLie: Despite that Zeke seems to be the focal point of the cast on the cover, Casey, who is in the back, is actually the protagonist.

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* ThisIsThePartWhere: After the group's harrowing first encounter with an alien, we hey this gem:

Among the rare successful [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror horror comedies]] (especially out of the bunch that followed in ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}''[='s=] [[FollowTheLeader wake]]), both very funny and very scary. The film's writer, Kevin Williamson, also wrote the first two ''Franchise/{{Scream}}'' movies, which helped it to avoid making the mistakes of many of the [[FollowTheLeader copycat]] teen horror movies of the late '90s. Expect loads of [[BodyHorror creative gore]] and ''really'' [[WTHCastingAgency creative casting]].

* DrugsAreBad: Inverted. The alien parasites are dried out and ultimately killed by the meth-like drug that Zeke makes and then sells in the parking lot. This drug is used in order to test who has been infected with the parasite.

* EverybodyMustGetStoned: At one point in the movie, Zeke forces everybody to take his drugs so that they could find out who is being controlled by the aliens. IntoxicationEnsues.

* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler:Dalilah is the first to be turned into an alien, followed by Stan and Stokely, the latter offscreen by Marybeth, who it turns out was the Queen all along. Casey and Zeke are the only ones not to be infected, although Zeke takes quite a beating from the Queen, and Casey is seconds away from getting infected before the Queen dies.]]

** [[spoiler: They get better at pretending to be human as the film foes on. By the time Stan is infected, the only way they know for sure it's not him is that he refuses to snort scat.]]

** When Miss Burke gets [[spoiler: beheaded in the car crash, her head walks around on tentacles]] then she grabs it. This is a recurring art obsession, from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalophore Saint Denis]] to [[http://www.viralnova.com/victorian-headless-photos/ Victorian photographers]]. It is also in ''Film/ReAnimator'' and ''Film/TheSerpentAndTheRainbow''.

* TeacherStudentRomance: The infected Miss Burke hides in the back of Zeke's car, then attempts to seduce him when he's speeding away from the infected football team. [[spoiler:Zeke then slams the car into a school bus, sending her through the windshield and decapitating her. She gets better.]] The final scenes imply that they HookedUpAfterwards.