Say goodbye to your last day on Earth. From Ole Bornedal, director of both Danish and American Nightwatch thrillers, comes prized science-fiction horror. Sixth grade has a new substitute teacher. Ulla Harms is ambitious and wants to take the class to Paris for an international competition. But the schoolchildren only see her as a sadistic mistress who has the ability to read their minds. None of the parents believe their offspring when they say she’s an evil outer space creature from another planet. Except student Carl has witnessed her strange powers of robotic transformation. Will the Faculty ever discover Ulla’s true identity or unmask her diabolical body-snatching plan? Paprika Steen’s wicked performance as the lovelorn alien and Dan Lausten’s award-winning cinematography push this fun and fearsome existential shocker into an altogether unique stratosphere. A terrific story, wonderfully executed and proof positive Europe can match the Americans at great sci-fi pulp fiction.
Directed by Ole Bornedal. Starring Paprika Steen – Ulla Harms, Jonas Wandschneider - Carl, Ulrich Thomsen – Jesper, Sonja Richter – Maria and Henrik Prip – Claus. Denmark 2007, 93 minutes. In Danish with English sub-titles. Web site