The Faculty
Why this pick
Matches the late-’90s teen paranoia, school-clique friction, and escalating sense that an idyllic everyday institution has become threatening.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Matches the late-’90s teen paranoia, school-clique friction, and escalating sense that an idyllic everyday institution has become threatening.
Why this pick
Its polished suburban surface conceals a chilling conformity machine, making it a sharp precursor to Disturbing Behavior’s suspicion of unnaturally perfected people.
Why this pick
Offers a sleek, anxious version of the same fear: people close to you seem altered, while calm normality becomes evidence of something deeply wrong.
Why this pick
Shares troubled adolescent perspective, affluent-suburb unease, and a melancholy off-kilter atmosphere where personal grief and looming menace intertwine.
Why this pick
A mordant teen thriller with a tight-knit town, high-school social pressures, and a darkly playful late-’90s genre sensibility.
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01 / THE STORY
Steve Clark (James Marsden) is a high school senior whose family moves to Cradle Bay, a picturesque island community in Washington (state) state's Puget Sound. It has been nearly one year since Steve's older brother, Allen (Ethan Embry), committed suicide, which traumatized the family.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Rachel Wagner
Trent
Mr. Clark
Mrs. Clark
Lorna

Abbey

Steve Clark

Gavin Strick