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Movies that feel likeThe Faculty (1998)

When creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.

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).

πŸ… 57% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Robert Rodriguezdreadunsettlingcerebralparanoid
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Hostel
2006 Β· dir. Eli Roth
πŸ… 60%β˜… 5.9horrorPeacock

Both keep coming back to the same thing: paranoia

The difference: Easier on the ideas than The Faculty

Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 Β· dir. Philip Kaufman
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.4science fiction Β· horror

The same two preoccupations: alien, and alien invasion

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.

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Scanners
1981 Β· dir. David Cronenberg
πŸ… 69%β˜… 6.7science fiction Β· horrorMax

One thread runs through both: drugs

A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.

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In the Mouth of Madness
1995 Β· dir. John Carpenter
πŸ… 61%β˜… 7.1horror Β· mystery

Common ground: paranoia

The difference: Leans harder into mystery than The Faculty does

An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.

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10 Cloverfield Lane
2016 Β· dir. Dan Trachtenberg
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.2thriller Β· science fiction Β· dramaParamount+Peacock

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than The Faculty does

After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.

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Phantasm
1979 Β· dir. Don Coscarelli
πŸ… 72%β˜… 6.6horror Β· science fictionPrime Video

Cerebral horror, and it commits to that

A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.

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The Thing
2011 Β· dir. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
πŸ… 34%β˜… 6.3horror Β· science fiction Β· mysteryPeacock

Science fiction with a pulse of paranoia, in both cases

When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.

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Resident Evil: Apocalypse
2004 Β· dir. Alexander Witt
πŸ… 18%β˜… 6.1horror Β· action Β· science fictionParamount+

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies. She then joins a small band of elite soldiers, who are enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. Once lack of luck and resources happen, they begin to wage an exhilarating battle to survive and escape before the Umbrella Corporation erases its experiment from the face of the earth.

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Spring
2014 Β· dir. Aaron Moorhead
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.7horror Β· romance Β· science fiction

Both lean on unease more than on science fiction

A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.

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Speak No Evil
2024 Β· dir. James Watkins
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.8horror Β· thrillerStarz

Horror built on paranoia, twice over

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.

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Coherence
2014 Β· dir. James Ward Byrkit
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· science fictionPrime VideoPeacock

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.

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Phase IV
1974 Β· dir. Saul Bass
πŸ… 50%β˜… 6.4horror Β· science fiction

The shared currency is dread

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.

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