THE FACULTY: Jordana Brewster Looks Back at Film’s Disappointing Release
Jans Holstrom
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The Faculty is a good movie. Don’t let anyone tell you different. It is a Robert Rodriguez-directed teen horror movie with quite a bit of bite. I actually didn’t see it until last year. Since then, it’s become one of my favorites. It’s actually gained quite a bit of cult following in the years since it debuted. Collider recently sat down with The Faculty’s Jordana Brewster, where she reflected on the film.
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SYNOPSIS:
To the students at Harrington High, the principal and her posse of teachers have always been a little odd, but lately they’ve been behaving positively alien. Controlled by otherworldly parasites, the faculty try to infect students one by one. Cheerleader Delilah (Jordana Brewster), football player Stan (Shawn Hatosy), drug dealer Zeke (Josh Hartnett) and new girl Marybeth (Laura Harris) team up with some of their other classmates to fight back against the invaders.
“With The Faculty, it was like, ‘You guys, this is gonna be huge. Look at all these successes around us,’ like She’s All That and Scream,” Brewster shared with Collider. “And it was also Dimension, which was doing really well, that studio. And then Tommy Hilfiger was doing our campaign! So we all thought it was gonna be huge. And then it turned out it wasn’t so huge. We thought it was gonna be massive. I think it was a Christmas opening, and then not so big.”
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Scream in 1996 put the teen slasher at the forefront of public taste. A movie like The Faculty – an almost B-movie creature feature – might not have resonated with those looking for slashers.
“Being on set, it was my first time shooting a movie ever, but also we were in Austin, Texas and working with Robert Rodriguez and Salma Hayek was in it, and Jon Stewart would test his material on us, his comedic routine,” Brewster explained. “It was so much fun. I loved working on that film.”
Brewster these days can be seen in the newly-released F9. Have you seen the faculty? Did you dig it? Did you not? Join the conversation in the comments or on Instagram and Twitter @DreadCentral. Also, we’re on Facebook. I’m Jans. I write news. Come tell me how good The Faculty is on Twitter @HorrorPlayed.
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