The Substitute

The Substitute (1993)

She loves her students...to death.

A high school substitute English teacher resorts to murder to protect her murderous dark past while seducing a student who begins to suspect her true identity.

Date of release
1993-09-22
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
Director
Martin Donovan

Casting

Interesting facts

The Substitute is a 1993 American thriller drama television film directed by Martin Donovan, written by David S. Goyer, and starring Amanda Donohoe as a murderous high school substitute teacher. The film also stars Dalton James, Natasha Gregson Wagner, and Mark Wahlberg in his first acting role. It premiered on the USA Network on September 22, 1993.

Production

The Substitute was a pet project of producer David Kirkpatrick, who had tried for years to get it made at Paramount Pictures, during his time as president of its Motion Picture Group. According to him, the idea for the film came from Paramount chairman Brandon Tartikoff, who was looking for a new film franchise to replace the Friday the 13th series, and wanted a "psycho substitute teacher".

The film was set to be a low-budget feature, to be directed by Martin Donovan. In September 1992, it was put into turnaround less than two weeks before filming was set to begin, reportedly due to the box office failure of Pet Sematary Two, another low-budget, high-concept film that Tartikoff had approved.

Kirkpatrick later set it up as a television film for the Showtime network.

Filming began in Vancouver on April 23, 1993. On April 27, the Vancouver School Board ruled that filming could not take place at Kitsilano Secondary School, which was set to portray the high school in the film, after a board member had read the script and objected to its violence and sexual content. The board relented after being convinced by the filmmakers that the draft they had seen was not the shooting script.

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