Episode #695 - The Faculty
Added 2023-09-12 04:00:02 +0000 UTC“But the stakes are high here, Andrew, we just killed the science teacher!” - Steve
On this week’s episode, the guys are chatting about the Robert Rodriguez sci-fi teen horror film, The Faculty! Has another movie ever done so little with such a solid cast? Are there too many characters in this movie? Shouldn’t they just have done all practical effects instead of this horrendous CGI? Is this the biggest chicken shit ending of the 1990s? And why in the world did they release this movie on Christmas Day? PLUS: The season 14 debut of the VHS Trailer Game!
The Faculty stars Josh Hartnett, Jordana Brewster, Elijah Wood, Clea Duvall, Laura Harris, Shawn Hatosy, Salma Hayek, Famke Janssen, Piper Laurie, Christopher McDonald, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Patrick, Usher, Daniel von Bargen, and Jon Stewart as Professor Edward Furlong; directed by Robert Rodriguez.
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Comments
I remember everyone in the theater laughing when Hartmet put on his science man magnifying glasses 😂
Purple Roundy
2025-05-18 18:38:55 +0000 UTCThank you for this!! I haven’t seen this movie in so long I forgot about the scat lol
Sharon
2024-11-01 18:08:59 +0000 UTCThis episode is what led me to become a Patreon member, such great work!! Laughing nonstop
Jessica
2023-09-30 21:22:03 +0000 UTCDenis Leary alone is reason to do that movie. Do Jusgement Night too as a double feature
Harrison McKinney
2023-09-23 04:33:37 +0000 UTCI guess I never paid enough attention to Harry Knowles before he was outed as a predator to realize how obvious it was if you looked at the shit he wrote. Looking it up now...woof.
Timothy Cameron Robbins Miller
2023-09-23 02:13:49 +0000 UTCI'm so glad you mentioned Suicide King as a stay tuned because that was my entry for listener request month!! Maybe next time 🤞🏽🤞🏽
LaShanda Pendleton
2023-09-19 18:26:41 +0000 UTCIt's so fitting that Harry Knowles held his annual Butt Numb-A-Thon at the Alamo Drafthouse, another disgraced film geek institution.
Z
2023-09-15 07:27:13 +0000 UTCSo glad they finally did this one. It was a great ep. When I heard that sonnenfeld call out by Elijah Wood, I couldn't wait to hear them tear into that. Also, the Harry Knowles stuff I was looking forward to and they came through and then some. Worth the wait. as a side note: Please do more commentaries. I love those so much.
JohnG
2023-09-14 02:21:01 +0000 UTCTrue story
Melanie Decker
2023-09-13 17:56:22 +0000 UTCI'd like to speak on Stokely "bearding herself" and to give you a glimpse into Gay Girl World (something I have experience with); that b*tch is gay. She would probably figure it out after high school once the thing with Stan inevitably crashed and burned, but she gay. No doubt in my mind.
Justine Prudhomme
2023-09-13 16:09:33 +0000 UTC::hobbit vomit:: - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-09-13 14:06:14 +0000 UTCoffice killer was like god damn. What a pull
Frank Grimes
2023-09-13 13:46:17 +0000 UTCSometimes, I'm listening and I think to myself "I could hold my own in the VHS Trailer Game" and then Chris makes these deep, deep pulls and I feel ashamed for even humoring the idea.
TDB
2023-09-13 12:42:43 +0000 UTCI hate to say it, but the Harry Knowles/Elijah Wood LOTR story is true. I heard Wood confirm it in an interview when Fellowship came out.
Craig
2023-09-13 07:20:49 +0000 UTCI always kiiiiiind of assumed they were secretly dating or something, yeah. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-09-12 23:34:08 +0000 UTCLol, oh wow, you just kicked loose my memory of that scene! That does make it funnier. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-09-12 23:31:46 +0000 UTCI don’t think it got settled during the episode and as a 10 Things-head I can’t let it go. The genitals in question are male. What the trivia doesn’t mention (which is dumb because it makes the trivia funnier) is that the scene they are talking about Keegan is actually drawing the genitalia on Krumholtz’s face “I have a dick on my face”. Great episode as usual.
HockeenightsCT
2023-09-12 22:30:12 +0000 UTCOmg I have also listened to that Columbine book many times, I know exactly what he’s talking about lol
Jaime Lee Ezell
2023-09-12 21:58:53 +0000 UTCEvery once in a while my mind will wander and I will puzzle over the relationship between Famke Janssen and Josh Hartnet in this movie. Is it romantic? Antagonistic? Are they dating at the end of the movie? The what and why of their dynamic is still something that occupies space in my brain.
Alexander Farr
2023-09-12 20:28:43 +0000 UTCBack to school? More like back to GHOUL.
Michael Daniels
2023-09-12 20:20:15 +0000 UTCthe harry Knowles dunks were top notch!
Mark D Myers
2023-09-12 19:41:48 +0000 UTCI think it already leaked into the Blade episode that drops on Thursday... - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-09-12 19:40:00 +0000 UTCI'm going to be saying "Columbine!" out of context now and it's going to be a problem
Matt
2023-09-12 19:24:37 +0000 UTCI could not be more excited about you folks talking Society. Capital B Bonkers. Thanks for everything you do :)
Hard To Gwil
2023-09-12 19:21:12 +0000 UTCAs a big Scream-head, I remember being completely turned off by Cursed. But yeah, we'll definitely be going back at some point! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-09-12 19:12:23 +0000 UTCRe: closing comments...CURSED is a bad movie but a better bad movie than this one. It embraces its stupidity more wholeheartedly. Stay Tuned, yes please.
MarkNM
2023-09-12 18:33:10 +0000 UTCWell, half-slander because Chris loves it. Check out my Letterboxd review as to why exactly I didn't think it works so well. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-09-12 18:21:45 +0000 UTCI tried checking that show out, but didn't get far. Should I power through? - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-09-12 18:21:00 +0000 UTCFor what it's worth, Heartnett is really good in Penny Dreadful. The original 3 seasons with Eva Green.
The Wheel
2023-09-12 16:53:21 +0000 UTCI forgot about that movie!! Oof
Jaime Lee Ezell
2023-09-12 16:47:49 +0000 UTCThe slander of “Massacre at Central High” is making me question my Patreon subscription :)
Kevin Lynch
2023-09-12 16:25:53 +0000 UTCThe (justifiable) ripping on Harry Knowles this episode is just the best. I can't wait until hopefully one day you cover the *awful* "Fanboys", where Ethan Suplee plays him and has dialogue. Yiiiiikes.
Matt
2023-09-12 16:00:15 +0000 UTCLove David Krumholtz! Now we’re talkin!
Jaime Lee Ezell
2023-09-12 15:43:10 +0000 UTCThat's what we had to do in the studio... just to be sure. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-09-12 15:22:11 +0000 UTCHoly crap, that is wild! You gotta write in to the mail bag to give us the bigger picture! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2023-09-12 15:21:37 +0000 UTCHigh school fight anecdotes continue; I am a mere freshman and two older dudes are going at it hammer and tongs in the hallway. They are really goin at it, throwin hands. The fuckin business/typing teacher shows up, this dude is thin as a rail and half the size of either of em and is also a total dick to everyone in his class so a lot of us are like oh shit Mr. H is gonna get beat up. Dude grabs one of the kids and just fuckin gorilla throws him across the hallway into the lockers like he's the Terminator; kid rebounds off the lockers, crashes into some spectators, and they fall down in a pile. The other dude takes a swing at Mr. H, so on fire is he and apparently somebody knows judo because he grabs him and shoulder tosses him onto the ground fuckin viciously enough you can hear the dudes skull make the bowling ball noise on the floor when he hits. Fuckin high school in 1990, i tell you what.
Winson Paine
2023-09-12 14:06:16 +0000 UTCThe lack of ads is delicious!
Chris Walton
2023-09-12 12:37:35 +0000 UTCBefore enjoying this ep, we should all have tall glasses of water to prove we're not aliens
Eren Keskin
2023-09-12 12:23:06 +0000 UTCI mean EVERYONE has seen Terminator 2. And especially in the film industry they know the fucking co-lead was Edward Furlong. It befuddles me.
Knut Farstad
2023-09-12 12:16:39 +0000 UTCWhy in the hell did they name the principal Edward Furlong?
Knut Farstad
2023-09-12 12:13:24 +0000 UTCHe didn't get that over the tummy rocker tattoo of “JameMaster” for nothing.
Jason
2023-09-12 12:07:08 +0000 UTC🤘!!!
Matt Doenges
2023-09-12 11:53:32 +0000 UTCspook-tacular coming early! I used to get this and urban legends mixed up
Frank Grimes
2023-09-12 09:53:24 +0000 UTCI adore these being ad free 🙌🏽
Ray
2023-09-12 07:08:00 +0000 UTCThe “back to school” tradition of WHM belongs on the Criterion of Podcasts.
jribs
2023-09-12 06:12:32 +0000 UTCI read that as James Marsters. Would love a spike cameo!
David Lang
2023-09-12 05:40:35 +0000 UTCFor a second I thought Steve was going to hand over hosting duties of the VHS game, but the JameMaster cannot hand over the reins just like that.
Jorge Guerrero
2023-09-12 04:28:06 +0000 UTC
