
Movies that feel likeThe Faculty (1998)
If you loved The Faculty, the closest films we have are Hostel (2006), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and Scanners (1981). All three share The Faculty's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Spring (2014).
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If The Faculty hit the spot, these will too

Both keep coming back to the same thing: paranoia
The difference: Easier on the ideas than The Faculty

The same two preoccupations: alien, and alien invasion
The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

One thread runs through both: drugs

Common ground: paranoia
The difference: Leans harder into mystery than The Faculty does

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath
The difference: Sits closer to thriller than The Faculty does

Cerebral horror, and it commits to that

Science fiction with a pulse of paranoia, in both cases

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Both lean on unease more than on science fiction

Horror built on paranoia, twice over
The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

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