James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl

The new kid in town stumbles across something sinister about the town's method of transforming its unruly teens into upstanding citizens.

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R, 83 min.

Directed by: David Nutter

Release Date: July 24, 1998

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DVD Release Date: August 14, 2001

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  • August 7, 2008
    Disturbing Behavior takes place in a small town in the San Juan Islands of northern Washington State. Its high school is full of your typical cliques: the stoners, the gearheads, the nerds?and the Blue Ribbons. They are the epitome of good behavior. They excel in their classes an...( read more)d sports, and are model citizens. That's what makes them so creepy. A new kid, Steve (James Mardsen) is befriended by two of the kids who don't easily fit into the other groups: the paranoid Gavin (Nick Stahl) and Rachel (Katie Holmes) Gavin is worried that there are sinister forces at work in Cradle Bay, and the entire problem seems to lead back to the school counselor, Dr. Caldicott (Bruce Greenwood). Gavin's friends humor his delusions until one night he is transformed from his druggy, underachieving self into a member of the Blue Ribbons. It's at that point that Steve and Rachel realize that there really is something amiss, and try to unravel Caldicott's machinations while avoiding the zombified state of the Blue Ribbons. The performances are better than the average horror film. Nick Stahl and Bruce Greenwood are the standouts of the film, although Holmes hones her natural talent to some degree. Disturbing Behavior is a promisingly better film than most of the other abovementioned contemporary teen horror films, which really ended up being not much more than 1980s slasher films with studio budgets. There?s some deft characterizations and sharply cynical writing.
  • July 5, 2008
    This is a cool teen thriller. Suprised it's not more well know as I only saw it through a recommendation. It's good fun if predictable. Very similar to The Faculty and with a strong cast.
  • September 15, 2007
    It was remotely interesting...
  • August 22, 2007
    Good movie!
  • September 21, 2008
    The movie was ok! Just some weird happenings with Students that are making them elite in some sinister way to unruly teens. Kept me guessing throughout the whole movie, but in the end it was cool.
  • November 26, 2009
    Waste of Nick Stahl and James Marsden.
  • November 20, 2009
    My girlfriend, hmhmmmm, won this movie on ebay eventhough B movie was practically written on the cover... Not amidst the worst I've ever seen but lame non-the-less
  • September 30, 2009
    My expectations on this one were not very high but the plot was actually much better than I thought it would be. It was simple, a little bit of a low quality movie, like an average "based on Stephen King novel" movie, almost.
    But it passed the test. Watch it when you have...( read more) nothing better to watch. The Mark Snow soundtrack combined with hardrock music gives you no time to relax!
  • September 26, 2009
    OMG, this has to be by far the weirdest movie I have ever seen... and yet another reason why I like 90's horror films; they have that uniqueness that other horror films don't have.

    I'm IN LOVE with James Marsden and he was perfect as the 'prettyboy' in the movie....( read more) I didn't think Katie Holmes could pull it off as the punk girl, but she proved me wrong. After all, she is one of my favorite actresses.
    I would avise anyone to see this movie, because it will look stupid at first, but then you start to realize how original and smart it is and you just can't take your eyes off of it. This off-beat, special movie is so not what I thought it would be.

    Must-see!!!!
  • August 30, 2009
    This movies lack of interesting characters and its inability to create suspense really handicapped it and with no twist ending I was left wanting more.

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