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Cast:

ELIJAH WOOD as Casey Conner

JORDANA BREWSTER as Delilah Profitt

CLEA DUVALL as Stokely

LAURA HARRIS as Marybeth Louise Hutchinson

JOSH HARTNETT as Zeke

SHAWN HATOSY as Stan

BEBE NEUWIRTH as Principal Drake

ROBERT PATRICK as Coach Willis

PIPER LAURIE as Mrs. Olson

FAMKE JANSSEN as Miss Burke

SALMA HAYEK as Nurse Harper

DANIEL VON BARGEN as Mr. Tate

JON STEWART as Mr. Furlong

CHRISTOPHER MCDONALD as Casey's Dad

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Synopsis: When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make a chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicisions: their teachers really are from another planet! As mind-controlling parasites rapidly begin spreading from the faculty to the students' bodies, it's ultimately up to the few who are left--an unlikely collection of loners, leaders, nerds, and jocks--to save the world from alien domination. Don't miss the unstoppable excitement of his unpredictably smart and scary hit.

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Taglines:

You will not be disrespectful this school year!

On December 25th, School's Out Forever

Take me to your teacher

The students at Herrington High always suspected their teachers were from another planet...they were right!

The students at Herrington high will not only question authority...they'll have to destroy it.

Meet the Alien Generation

By Andy Seiler
THE PACKAGING: Elijah Wood plays a high school student who suspects his teachers are aliens. Kevin Williamson (Scream and the original I Know What You Did Last Summer ) co-wrote it and Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn, El Mariachi ) directed.

WHAT'S ACTUALLY INSIDE: A cross between Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Breakfast Club.

WHY IT'S A KEEPER: A surprisingly strong cast, with the faculty played by Piper Laurie, Bebe Neuwirth and others.

POSSIBLE REASONS FOR RETURN: This once-promising premise has been done to death by other body-snatching movies. Can the school setting really make it fresh?

[ Copyright© AS 1999, USA Today ]

By Leonard Maltin
Ohio high school students who normally clash with one another are forced to band together when they discover that their teachers are being taken over by aliens. Self-referential horror film, with a healthy nod to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," is a cut above usual teen gore fests and has a first-rate cast. Overlong but sharply written (by Kevin Williamson, from a story by David Wechter and Bruce Kimmel).

[ Copyright© 1999, Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide ]

By Mark Englehart
Okay, you knew everyone in high school was just a little different: everyone looked at you strangely, the teachers were freaky, and you never could find the right groove to fit into. What if it turned out that it was all because your school was inhabited by creepy aliens from outer space? That's the enjoyably cheesy B-premise for this fun and scary flick from the pen of Scream's Kevin Williamson, the master of the post-modern teen horror film. Directed by Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi), it's The Breakfast Club meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers, as six disparate students from Herrington High School band together when they discover that an alien life form is invading both the student and faculty bodies, with plans to take over the world.

Each of the heroes represents a different high school type: popular babe (Jordana Brewster), picked-on geek (Elijah Wood), goth girl (Clea DuVall), sensitive jock (Shawn Hatosy), new kid in town (Laura Harris), and bad-boy rebel (Josh Hartnett). The plot isn't much--a basic kill-or-be-killed premise spiked with a healthy shot of paranoia--but Willliamson and Rodriguez do a great job of building the tension slowly but surely. The suspense set pieces are genuinely frightening, and the film pokes fun at itself without deflating its scares; Williamson is a master at shifting gears from comedy to horror quickly and adroitly. The young cast doesn't have a weak link among them (with special kudos to Wood, DuVall and heartthrob-in-the-making Hartnett), and Rodriguez gets maximum mileage from the titular faculty, which includes Jon Stewart, Piper Laurie, Salma Hayek, Bebe Neuwirth, and Robert Patrick of Terminator 2. Go to the head of the class, Mr. Williamson.

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