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| Film: | Jeepers Creepers 2 |
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| Director: | Victor Salva |
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Despite the usual symptoms of sequelitis,
Jeepers Creepers 2 delivers the goods for those who enjoyed the 2001 original—a group large enough to propel this sequel to a record-setting opening in August 2003. While establishing the flesh-eating “Creeper” as a new horror icon with frantic action and more elaborate special effects, writer-director Victor Salva follows the traditional formula, dispensing with plot almost altogether and focusing entirely on threat, menace, mayhem, and gore. That’s likely to disappoint horror fans hoping for a more revealing…
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Despite the usual symptoms of sequelitis, Jeepers Creepers 2 delivers the goods for those who enjoyed the 2001 original—a group large enough to propel this sequel to a record-setting opening in August 2003. While establishing the flesh-eating “Creeper” as a new horror icon with frantic action and more elaborate special effects, writer-director Victor Salva follows the traditional formula, dispensing with plot almost altogether and focusing entirely on threat, menace, mayhem, and gore. That’s likely to disappoint horror fans hoping for a more revealing exploration of the Creeper’s origins (room for another sequel, perhaps?), and by trapping nondescript teens in a school bus attacked by the Creeper, Salva severely limits the movie’s overall potential. Still, there’s something to be said for straightforward shocks, and Jeepers Creepers 2 delivers enough of them to justify its profitable existence. —Jeff Shannon
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With confident style and low-budget ingenuity,
Jeepers Creepers gets under your skin, provoking spine-tingling horror when college siblings Trish (Gina Philips) and Darry (Justin Long) encounter a flesh-eating demon along a barren rural highway. After a harrowing car chase that sets the movie’s nerve-wracking tone, they investigate suspicious activity near an abandoned church, where a corrugated pipe leads to unimaginable horrors. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game against the regenerating demon, which feeds on fear—and selected body parts—according to a…
