1998

130 minutes

Directed by
Robert Rodriguez

Writing credits
David Wechter(story), Bruce Kimmel

Jordana Brewster .... Delilah Profitt
Clea DuVall .... Stokely
Laura Harris .... Marybeth Louise Hutchinson
Josh Hartnett .... Zeke
Shawn Hatosy .... Stan
Salma Hayek .... Nurse Harper

Distributor: Miramax, Dimension Films
Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Release Date: December 25, 1998
Boxoffice
Budget
$15m (USA)
Opening Weekend
£894,161 (UK) (11 April 1999) (335 screens)
$11.633m (USA) (27 December 1998) (2365 screens)
Gross
£4.346m (UK) (16 May 1999)
$40.064m (USA) (9 May 1999)

Filming Locations
Dallas, Texas, USA
Lockhart, Texas, USA
Austin, Texas, USA

Plot summary
Herrington High, Ohio, a small-town highschool. All of a sudden, the teachers start changing attitude. When Casey and Delilah have to hide in a closet in the teacher's lounge, they witness the strangulation of Nurse Harper by two of them. Shocked, they manage to flee. Only moments later, the nurse seems to be very alive, but also somehow changed, like all the teachers and most of the students. Only Casey, Delilah and four others seem to be suspicious. Proof of an alien infection is finally brought by the chemistry teacher, who also points out a way to kill the infected humans. The plan now is to get the queen, before the aliens can spread out over the whole country.