2007 · thriller · comedy · horror
The Substitute
Directed by Ole Bornedal1h 33m2007
6th Grade gets a new substitute teacher. She wants to train the class for an international competition in Paris. But something isn't right. How is she able read kids' minds? Why is she so mean? And how does she manage to convince everyone's parents she is so great when the whole class knows she is really an alien?
Our read: The Substitute (2007) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive thriller · comedy · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured thriller / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- inventive
Watching The Substitute tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How The Substitute feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a quirky kids vs creepy adult with sci-fi twist and dark humor.”
Skip it tonight — You want serious horror or avoid child protagonists facing danger.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like The Substitute, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →