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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.

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

🍅 57% Rotten Tomatoes6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Rodriguezdreadunsettlingcerebralparanoid
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 · dir. Philip Kaufman
🍅 93%7.4science fiction · 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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The Thing
2011 · dir. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
🍅 34%6.2horror · science fiction · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: paranoia

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than The Faculty does

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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Hostel
2006 · dir. Eli Roth
🍅 60%5.9horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: paranoia

The difference: Missing the ideas of 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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Scanners
1981 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 69%6.7science fiction · horror

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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The Invitation
2016 · dir. Karyn Kusama
🍅 90%6.6thriller · horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Faculty does

Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is up to something.

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10 Cloverfield Lane
2016 · dir. Dan Trachtenberg
🍅 91%7.2thriller · science fiction · drama

Cerebral and paranoid in the same breath

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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Resident Evil: Apocalypse
2004 · dir. Alexander Witt
🍅 18%6.1horror · action · science fiction

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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Coherence
2014 · dir. James Ward Byrkit
🍅 89%7.2thriller · science fiction

Unsettling 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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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 · dir. Don Siegel
🍅 97%7.7science fiction · horror · thriller

Common ground: alien infection

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

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Resident Evil: Extinction
2007 · dir. Russell Mulcahy
🍅 24%6.2horror · action · science fiction

Both lean on ideas more than on horror

Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.

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Resident Evil
2002 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 35%6.6horror · action · science fiction

Science fiction built on paranoia, twice over

When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.

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Brotherhood of the Wolf
2001 · dir. Christophe Gans
🍅 74%7adventure · horror · action

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

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