
Movies that feel like The Faculty (1998)
If you loved The Faculty, the closest films we have are Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The Thing (2011) and Hostel (2006). All three share The Faculty's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 12 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.
If The Faculty hit the spot, these will too

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

The same preoccupation in both: paranoia
The difference: Sits closer to mystery than The Faculty does

Both keep coming back to the same thing: paranoia
The difference: Missing the ideas of The Faculty

One thread runs through both: drugs

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath
The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Faculty does

Cerebral and paranoid in the same breath

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Unsettling science fiction, and it commits to that

Common ground: alien infection
The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

Both lean on ideas more than on horror

Science fiction built on paranoia, twice over

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases
In the mood for more dread?
all dread movies →The best-reviewed films that share The Faculty’s defining feeling.









