* AlanSmithee: Director David Nutter [[AvertedTrope ultimately didn't do this]], but the ExecutiveMeddling he faced caused him to consider having his name taken off the credits.
* BoxOfficeBomb: '''Budget''': $15 million. '''Box office''': $17.5 million. The small profit doesn't cover marketing costs.
* DuelingWorks: ''Film/TheFaculty'' was released on 25th December, 1998, six months after ''Film/DisturbingBehavior'', on 24th July, 1998. Both are quippy teen riffs on classic ParanoidThriller material: ''Literature/TheStepfordWives'' in the earlier movie's case, and ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' in the later's case, both [[RecycledInSpace recycled in high school.]] Both have antagonistic adults, and both [[spoiler:rewrite their source material's ''very'' depressing endings so that the good guys win, though the earlier movie's ending is [[BittersweetEnding much more bittersweet.]]]] However, the effect is dampened by the fact that ''Disturbing Behavior'' [[BoxOfficeBomb underperformed at the box office]] and was badly received.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The film was practically shredded in the editing room, having nearly twenty minutes cut (the theatrical edit is just 84 minutes long) and a different ending put in by the studio over the objections of director David Nutter. Among the scenes cut include numerous story and CharacterDevelopment scenes whose absence the film greatly suffers for, which perhaps explains the film's tepid reception by critics and at the box office. Fortunately, all of the scenes in question are included on the DVD. The [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci-Fi Channel]]'s edited-for-TV version of the movie often reinstates the deleted scenes, making it something of an unofficial [[{{Recut}} director's cut]], though it leaves the theatrical ending.
* FocusGroupEnding: The theatrical version ended on a cliffhanger revealing that [[spoiler:Gavin, one of the brainwashed Blue Ribbon kids, had survived and is now working as a student teacher at an InnerCitySchool, where it's implied that he will restart the Blue Ribbon program]]. The original ending, which was deemed by test audiences as too depressing, had [[spoiler:Gavin take his former friends hostage on the ferry as they try to escape. They shoot him in self-defense, which breaks him out of his brainwashing before he dies.]] This was just one of many edits imposed on the film, to the point where the director almost had his name taken off of the credits as a result.
* PlayingAgainstType: At this point in her career, Creator/KatieHolmes was best known for playing sweet {{tomboy}} Joey Potter on ''Series/DawsonsCreek''. Here, she's playing one of the town "bad kids".
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