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Jeepers Creepers has a lot going for it. It has a decent premise (nothing extraordinary, but it's workable), several excellent scenes, and a great baddy - one that, if the film itself had been better, would have haunted the popular imagination as much as Freddy Krueger. Instead, the dialogue is terrible, the characters often make frustratingly awful and difficult to swallow decisions, and several annoying horror movie cliches that, for Christ's sake, should never be included in a movie again, yet somehow always end up there. How rare is it that a director can direct his own script? Really, Jeepers Creepers required two, maybe only one rewrite or script doctoring and it could have been a B movie masterpiece. The changes wouldn't have been difficult. I actually suggest that people see this film. Wait for it to move off the new release shelves and then snatch it up. It's only 90 minutes long. Expect your knee to jerk, but I implore you to find the seeds of good ideas in it. And, let me add, they are apparently making a sequel (the film really didn't make that much money, but, as I remember, it topped the B.O. for a week or two). I will definitely rent it when it comes out on video, just to see if Victor Salva has improved himself at all. 5/10.
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