This is a fun little alien invasion film from Robert Rodriguez. I didn't know that until the end credits but it suddenly made Planet Terror make a lot more sense. Herrington High School is a typical Midwestern educational institution with a very atypical problem: its faculty is slowly being replaced by aliens. Only a handful of students are aware of the growing menace and must find a way to stop their entire town from being taken over. Bitchy outcast Stokely (Clea Duvall) contributes her knowledge of sci-fi, jock Stan (Shawn Hatosy) provides the muscle, underachieving drug manufacturer Zeke (Josh Hartnett) brings the scientific know-how to kill the alien scum, shy camera bug Casey (Elijah Wood) keeps everyone together, Delilah (Jordana Brewster) is pretty, and new girl Marybeth (Laura Harris) is just trying to survive.
There were so many famous people in this movie. Pretty much everyone with a speaking role is a known actor. The story manages to build a decent amount of tension and while it borrows heavily from Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Thing, it manages to feel like an homage, not a rip-off.
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