Storyline
When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make a chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: 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.
Directors
Cast
Salma Hayek, Elijah Wood, Tina Rodriguez, Josh Hartnett, Christopher McDonald, Jordana Brewster, Jon Stewart, Robert Patrick, Usher Raymond, Clea DuVall, Shawn Hatosy, Famke Janssen, Danny Masterson, Jon Abrahams, Daniel von Bargen, Douglas Aarniokoski, Libby Villari, Susan Willis, Bebe Neuwirth, Eric Jungmann, Piper Laurie, Laura Harris, Duane Martin, Summer Phoenix, Pete Janssen, Wiley Wiggins, Harry Jay Knowles, Donna Casey, Louis Black, Chris Viteychuk, Jim Johnston, Katherine Willis, Mike Lutz
Trailer
Reviews
80
Variety
Results may not be Nobel Prize material, but they're zesty and cogent.
80
Chicago Reader
Rodriguez's unironic directing brings out the complexity of characters painfully aware of the stereotypes they represent and allows this gripping, scary, and romantic movie to offer more than factoids about other movies the filmmakers have seen too many times.
80
L.A. Weekly
A tight blend of self-awareness, humor and fear.
78
A slam-bang, sci-fi actioner, relentlessly paced and edited, with a pounding soundtrack and some ingenious aliens courtesy of Berni Wrightson and KNB Effects.
70
Film Threat
It looks like Williamson threw five old scripts in the air and Rodriguez shot the first 90 pages he picked up. I'd like a little more meat on my burger because all I can taste is the cheese.
