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The brilliant but rebellious drug-dealing senior who repeats his final year.

Critical reviews were decidedly mixed, with many calling it derivative. On Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a score of 58%, with the consensus reading “Rip-off of other sci-fi thrillers”. However, on Metacritic, it sits at 61 out of 100, indicating “generally favorable reviews”.

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However, instead of the slasher format, Williamson turned his sights toward classic science fiction. He loaded the script with meta-textual references to Jack Finney’s The Body Snatchers and Robert A. Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters .

The film also flips traditional high school power dynamics on their head. The very traits that make these students outcasts—Zeke’s criminality, Stokes’s cynicism, and Casey’s paranoia—become the exact survival skills required to fight back. In The Faculty , the maladjusted teens are the only ones sane enough to recognize that the system is broken. Practical Effects and the Infamous Drug Test

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