The Faculty story
A motley crew of high school students discover that their teachers have been co-opted aliens.
19 total · 5 major · 14 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| extraterrestrial being | major | Parasitic bug aliens from outer space were going around entering the teachers and students of a local high school, and controlling them. |
| parasitic being | major | The bug aliens attached themselves to human hosts, and controlled them. |
| subversive life form from outer space | major | It was up to Casey and his friends to thwart the bug aliens' scheme to parasitize everyone in the world. |
| what if people around me started behaving strangely one by one | major | Casey and his friends watched in horror as the teachers and other students at their school became controlled by nefarious aliens, one by one. |
| what it is like in high school | major | The film is set in a small town high school, and follows a number of stereotypical teen storylines: Casey was bullied, Delilah is looking to break big stories in the school newspaper, Zeke is an underachieving drug pusher, Stokley had trouble fitting in, and Stan quits the football team to focus on his studies. |
| alcohol abuse | minor | Delilah had exposed Mr. Tate's alcoholism in the school paper. |
| aliens inspiring great people | minor | Casey postulated that such sci-fi film directors as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Barry Sonnenfeld, and Roland Emmerich had gotten their ideas from aliens - or were perhaps themselves aliens. |
| American football | minor | The viewer is shown a local high school football team practice, and later a where the team is playing and infecting opposing players with parasitic bug aliens. |
| father and son | minor | Casey was lectured by his father for having gotten into trouble at school. |
| husband and wife | minor | Casey's parent Mr. and Mrs. Connor. |