The Faculty (1999)

You know what to expect when super scriptboy Kevin Williamson is on the case. A fair spatter of gore, one or two nail-nibbling suspense sequences, a clutch of pretty, teen faces and a generous serving of wink-to-the-audience tongue-in-cheekiness. But with The Faculty, Williamson's finally decided to shift genres, away from the knackered old slasher pic and into the nerd-baiting universe of science-fiction. The result? Well, with El Mariachi director Robert Rodriguez at the helm, it's fun, it's frantic and you will laugh - but it's so overly derivative that you can't help feeling just a teensy bit cheated.

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