Davis P Disturbing Behavior is basically Stepford teens. It focuses on James Marsden's character, whose family has just moved to this small coastal town. There is something very sketchy about a lot of the high schoolers there... They used to be these average kids who did normal teenage stuff... That is until they were brainwashed. Marsden and his friend, Katie Holmes, quickly find out just what is really going on, and try to stop it. I enjoyed this film a fair amount. It is pretty well done and it knows its main audience, which is teenagers. And yes, it has a pretty strong teen vibe to it, a 90s vibe also, but it's not overboard to the point of annoyance. The acting is good, especially from a very young James Marsden. Also the actors fit their roles well. The writing is average, won't win any awards but its not bad and trust me I've seen a lot worse. I think this film can serve as one of those just viewed for purely fun purposes, nothing too heavy. 7/10.

Leofwine_draca Very similar in feel to the same year's THE FACULTY, this teen movie is professionally made (if a little too "slick") and well-directed by David Nutter. Thankfully, instead of making yet another clichéd slasher movie, the producers opted for a STEPFORD WIVES-style conspiracy full of paranoid behaviour and brainwashing. The result is a mixed combination of science fiction and thriller films with plenty of horror content thrown in too. Although plenty clichéd, DISTURBING BEHAVIOUR proves to be a harmless enough evening's entertainment with some nice ideas and good performances, but far from a classic. After a brilliant plot set-up the film gradually falls to pieces at around the halfway mark, becoming an action-orientated film with one climax after another. Whilst the first half of the movie concentrates on building atmosphere and suspense - something it does very well - the second half is a plot less, predictable, and shallow viewing experience.The flaws are too numerous to mention and typical for the genre. Bad, "teeny" style music playing loudly at inopportune moments and lots of would-be subtle in-jokes and references to other, better films. Then there's the lack of explanation as to the brainwashing experiment itself, which is just kind of glossed over without any real depth. The action scenes are well-staged and stick to being realistic without any glossy special effects, which is good, although the silly ending (which owes a debt of inspiration to the Pied Piper story) lets it down.James Marsden (X-MEN) and Katie Holmes (THE GIFT) take the leads as the unconventional lovers and are seemingly cast for their good looks rather than their talent, as both are wooden and unconvincing at times. Luckily Nick Stahl (TERMINATOR 3) is around to show them how its down with a fine edgy performance as the paranoid loner. Veteran support comes from Steve Railsback, underused as a sinister cop, and William Sadler, who plays a somewhat silly character (although, in a moment of inspired cheesiness, he does get to utter the immortal line "Teacher, leave those kids alone!"). Nevertheless, DISTURBING BEHAVIOUR is surprisingly entertaining attempt considering the amount of flaws it has and the clichéd story, although hardly brilliant. A mindless and occasionally brilliant movie which tends to hit more than it misses.

brandonhelee Back in late April of this year I was searching threw the Netflix vault of titles and came across this film it looked good to me having that late 90's Scream vibe to the cover,a solid looking cast, & I was in the desire to watch a film I haven't seen before so that's what lead to me watching it and watching it more than four times.Disturbing Behavior(1998) is a film about a family who moves to a city where they intend to start fresh lives after the death of their son & brother and one of the family members the other son goes to a High School where he runs into group of peers Gavin(a rebellious cocky likable guy),UV(a major pot-head) & Rachel(the love interest of the film).One of the new found Friends Gavin portrayed by Terminator 3:Rise of the Machine's Nick Stahl suspects something off with the other kids of the school of whom he used to be good friends with and the new friend Steve(X-Men's James Marsden) thinks he's just nuts.The film goes on to show you a deep routed family conflict dealing with the passing of the deceased family member and also features Katherine Isabelle(of Freddy Vs. Jason & Ginger Snaps fame) as Steve's sister.The film then reveals the mystery of the film by having Gavin become a member of the Blue Ribbons and to show you very subtly the Janitor knows something is up too.The film then goes to explain that their's this corporation who takes children with odd ,unfavorable & etc, behavior and controls them to doing their biding then it's up for Steve and Rachel to stop it.Now this film is actually very good in my eyes it could've been a masterpiece if everything was left alone in the film tough because of my knowledge on this film a whole bunch of scenes had to be cut for the DVD Home Video release of the film and you could tell because some of the film feels lacking and some of the characters just needed more time to develop.The film's main strength is in how it slowly reveals the intriguing mystery beyond the story it's nice tone and setting and not to mention score.This film also features many similarities to another film of the same year or year before called The Faculty(now I also enjoyed that film) and that begs the question which is the better film we'll that's a hard question because I love both films very much but their must be decided victor between the two so let's dissect the strengths and weaknesses of both films of which they both have: The Faculty's strength is more in the characters of which is understandable because that film didn't have to sacrifice so much so for bulls!t reasoning behind the studios and getting to understand their traits and to have some witty Kevin Willamson dialogue in the film.Disturbing Behavior's strength is in it's mythology of the corporation and setting and atmosphere.It is truly sad Disturbing Behavior had to trim down it's character elements because I have a deeper interest in their back-story and the events their going through whereas The Faculty just offered me character development to characters of which I'm not to interested in their story.Disturbing Behavior is a good film regardless just if it was a lot less messed around with it would be a lot better in my eyes.My Next Review will be of:Halloween(2007) coming within a few days of this reviews postage I hope I brought some interesting insight to the film and didn't come off dumb in this review as this is my first review for IMDb.

willhaskew A teenager named Steve Clark (Jamie Marsden of X-Men fame), moves with his family to a small town called Cradle Bay in Washington State after leaving Chicago due to his older brother committing suicide. He encounters outcast stoners named Gavin Strick (Nick Stahl) and U.V. (Chad Donella). They're at the bottom of the social ladder at Cradle Bay HS. Steve also meets the Blue Ribbons, a type of Phi Beta Kappa-esque group of seemingly civic-minded student athletes. They seem like typical high achievers at first, but they're violent elitists, given to random acts of bullying, intimidation, assault and seen in the opening scene, murder. Before participating in the mysterious Program run by the resident school psychologist, some of the Blue Ribbons' leaders were once good friends of Gavin and U.V. It seems that Gavin, Steve and Rachel Wagner (Katie Holmes), Gavin's only other friend and Steve's love interest, are the only ones that truly take notice of the Blue Ribbons destructive nature while parents and community leaders look the other way. On the plus side, they did have an interesting idea of an almost cult-like group of student high achievers along with some creepy scenes seen with the 'recruiting' they do. The negatives, they give in to stereotyping, with jocks, stoners and social outcasts. The most disturbing thing about this movie may be the idea of some misguided educator deciding that the 'bad students' need to be improved through aggressive Pavlovian conditioning.