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Jeepers Creepers II (2003) More at IMDbPro »

• Gina Philips turned down the chance to reprise her role from the first movie, but Justin Long has a cameo.
  
  
• Director Victor Salva usually makes a cameo appearance in his movies, but because this film has no good spots for him to appear, his face can be seen very briefly on a magazine when the Creeper reaches through the roof of the bus.
  
  
• Meat Loaf was originally considered to play the bus driver.
  
  
• Victor Salva wrote the whole "Every 23 years for 23 days it gets to eat" rule in the first movie so there would be no sequel unless the movie was set in the future, and knew the studio wouldn't want that. However Francis Ford Coppola found an easy loophole in the rule for the sequel: set it during the same 23 days as the first movie. So this film is set on the 23rd day for the purpose of not making another sequel.
  
  
• In the first scene, before the Creeper appears, Jack Taggart Jr. is working underneath a truck. The device he uses to slide underneath it is commonly referred to as a "creeper".
  
  
• The road scenes were all filmed on a small stretch of private road on the Tejon Ranch in California. Interiors on the bus were filmed on a stage in an airport hanger.
  
  
• A total of four school buses were used in the film, including the converted sound stage bus for shooting the interiors.
  
  
• According to writer/director Victor Salva the inspiration for the character of Jack Taggart Sr. was Captain Ahab in Moby Dick. At one point Taggart was even suppose to quote Ahab ("from hell's heart I stab thee") in his showdown with The Creeper. The line was cut from the film though.
  
  
• Victor Salva says in his director's commentary that he nearly cut the scene were The Creeper 'flirts' with the teens on the bus, feeling that it might be too comical for the film. He was later glad that he didn't as it was a favorite scene with the screening audiences.
  
  
• In the scene where Izzy, Double D, and Rhonda try to escape The Creeper in the wrecked exterminator truck - Izzy accidentally puts the truck into drive instead of reverse when taking off. According to Travis Schiffner (Izzy) it was completely unintentional, but the take worked well enough that it was left in the film.
  
  
• The song 'Jeepers Creepers' which played into the original film a lot is only referenced once in this film. Its tune can be subtly heard in Bennett Salvay's music score during the final image of the film.
  
  
• "Like A Bat Out Of Hell" was an alternate title for the film at one point.
  
  
• The station wagon the Taggart Sr. finds with the roof peeled back has a bumper sticker that reads "I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing." A reference to the fact that the Creeper eats parts of people to replace parts on his own body.
  
  

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