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48 out of 68 people found the following review useful: Good sequel. Decent scary movie!, 28 November 2004 Author: Coventry from the Draconian Swamp of Unholy Souls
I recently re-watched the first Jeepers Creepers and I don't really get why so many people seem to hate it. Sure, it had quite a disappointing climax and Victor Salva is an infamous figure in Hollywood but his visions did lead to one of the best horror films in the post-Scream era. And the same goes for part two! If you leave logic behind, this is quite an intense and well-elaborated scary movie. Opposite to most directors nowadays, Salva perfectly knows how to create suspenseful situations and emotional devastation. The Creeper (portrayed once again by Jonathan Breck) is a far-fetched new horror icon but it does bring terror in the most isolated outlands of America. This sequel takes place a few days after the original (of which the happenings can be heard on radio-broadcasts all the time) and features a bus full of high school jocks and cheerleaders terrorized by the Creeper. Judging by their fear's smell, he picks out victims to devour and to re-furnish his rotting corpse. Victor Salva makes great use of the 'surprise element'. All the characters in Jeepers Creepers are equally meaningless so you never really know who will get killed next. Even the most popular jock, the most innocent child or the cutest girl can die at any time and this results in an exiting drop-out race of which you don't want to miss a second. The film is not as gore as you might think and the stress is more laid on tension. Salva and his crew use the remote location to the fullest and the film contains eerie shots of wide cornfields and roads with no chance for shelter. The cast of young and inexperienced kids do a fairly good job. The only familiar face in Jeepers Creepers 2 is Ray Wise (from the cult series 'Twin Peaks'). This film will never be a classic but at least its entertaining horror without much pretension.
30 out of 37 people found the following review useful: A few questions that should have been asked before filming, 22 September 2003 Author: david-47 from Los Angeles
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
Spoilers ahead.If it's spring, why is the corn tall, dead and brown? Shouldn't it be short, green, and growing? Why are scarecrows needed to protect dead cornstalks?Where are the basketballs, uniforms and equipment? They aren't on the bus and there's no car pulling the equipment trailer following along.How tiny does a town have to be to only have three cheerleaders? Even small towns have lots of cheerleaders these days. If they're coming back from a game, why aren't they wearing cheerleader uniforms?Did absolutely no one else in the town go to the state championship game? No band? No pep squad? No student bus? Or did they all take an alternate route home? Did no one's parents ever think to worry when the bus was hours late and maybe go out searching, or call the cops?If "the nine" is such a "big road" why are there so few cars on it?How can the bus be sitting level with two flat tires?With both the front door and emergency door jammed, why did it not occur to any of these 30-year-old teenagers to simply climb out one of the many broken windows?If the Creeper can peel open the top of the bus like a can opener, why do the kids feel safe in the bus?How can the Creeper pull a kid nearly out of the bus with his claws, but not inflict any bloody damage?How can a body walk around for several seconds with no head?When the Creeper pulls off his head and replaces it, how can it first look like the head of the previous owner, then shortly later look like the Creeper's original head, complete with bad teeth and long gray hair?If the Creeper only kills young, gay males, how do they account for the two adult males and adult female on the bus, the old man and woman in the station wagon, and the old man in the exterminator truck?When the kids go to the exterminator truck planning to hot wire it, why are they surprised to find the keys inside? Did they think that after the Creeper peeled open the roof and ate the driver, that he also took the keys so nobody would steal the truck?After everybody ran away from the bus, where did they all go? To the concession stand? Or duck into another theater to see a better movie?If this happens every 23 years, and any self-respecting teenage psychic can channel it, why isn't the National Guard standing by with heavy weapons at the appointed time?What kind of engineering background is required to enable a farmer to convert a post-punching machine into a harpoon capable of scoring a direct hit on a small target rapidly approaching by air? And how does one build, test, and deploy that in a matter of hours?If the Creeper is so strong, and can defy the laws of physics to lift a heavily-loaded pickup truck off the ground, then how can the farmer crank it back down with one hand?And finally, why is the farmer sitting beside his homemade harpoon 23 years later, waiting for the Creeper to come back to life? Why didn't he, or the authorities, since by now everybody knows the story, think to burn the Creeper to a crisp and bury the ashes in a few thousand tons of concrete before Jeepers Creepers III arrives in theaters to insult us all over again?
34 out of 47 people found the following review useful: OK sequel tries hard, but misses the mark, 18 April 2005 Author: Libretio
JEEPERS CREEPERS II Aspect ratio: 2.39:1 (Panavision)Sound formats: Dolby Digital / DTSStranded in a broken-down bus on a lonely country road, a group of high school jocks and cheerleaders are targeted by the monstrous Creeper (Jonathan Breck) who needs their body parts for the purposes of regeneration. But the Creeper hasn't reckoned on the tenacity of one of its earlier victims (Ray Wise), a grieving father seeking revenge for the loss of his youngest son...Though crafted with technical precision and performed with gusto by a strong cast of newcomers and veterans, this disappointing sequel sacrifices the heartfelt emotional undertow of its magnificent predecessor JEEPERS CREEPERS (2000) in favor of bigger and splashier set-pieces. While it's as raucous and entertaining as one could hope for, it's also a surprisingly conventional effort from writer-director Victor Salva, whose best work (POWDER, RITES OF PASSAGE, etc.) has always focused on small groups of characters caught up in extreme situations. Here, his attempts to shoehorn deeper issues into what is essentially a popcorn movie seems forced and inconsequential, and he spreads his narrative concerns too thinly over a broad range of interchangeable characters: The elements of homophobia and racism which initially divide the young heroes - until they're forced to overcome their differences in order to survive the Creeper's onslaught - are rendered increasingly meaningless as the movie progresses, until they no longer have any direct influence on the wider storyline.But Salva is too much of a craftsman for his movie to be a complete washout. The action/horror set-pieces are genuinely spectacular, and Breck camps it up superbly as the hideous Creeper, swooping out of the darkness to carry unsuspecting victims to their doom. Working in scope format for the first time in their respective careers (REAL scope, not that Super 35 rubbish), Salva and cinematographer Don E. FauntLeRoy conjure a series of startling images from the outset, many of them tinged with visual poetry: The golden cornfield in the opening sequence, where the film's first victim suffers an appalling fate (a genuinely horrific set-piece); the point-of-view shots from the Creeper's perspective as it swoops on fleeing prey; and the eerie calm of the closing sequence, which portends sequels to come. Salva's regular composer, Bennett Salvay, delivers a terrific symphonic score, as brassy and frightening as any in recent years, which serves to boost the film's dramatic appeal in no uncertain terms.Wise, a late addition to the cast, dominates the film as an avenging farmer who is every bit the Creeper's equal in terms of strength and persistence, and he's given strong support by veterans Diane Delano and Thom Gossom Jr. The younger cast members are enthusiastic and talented, and it's a fair bet that some of them (Travis Schiffner, Al Santos, Nicki Aycox, etc.) will figure heavily in various Hunkiest/Sexiest lists during the next few years. Look out for a brief - but welcome - cameo appearance by Justin Long from "JC1". It may not live up to every expectation, but there's still much to enjoy in JEEPERS CREEPERS II.
22 out of 31 people found the following review useful: Hot shirtless guys arouse Creeper's, uh, appetite, 31 August 2003 Author: Dr. Gore (drgore@hotmail.com) from Los Angeles, California
*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*So the Creeper comes back. Jeepers. The Creeper gets horny every 23 years. Lucky for him, a bunch of hunky guys get stranded in the middle of nowhere. This turns the Creeper on. The rest of the movie has the Creeper trying to pick them up and carry them away to his love shack. A farmer comes around with a harpoon gun to bag his own Moby Dick.The Creeper has a thing for guys. Girls don't interest him. When I saw the three girls in this one, I knew they were not picked for their hot bodies. I don't know what they were picked for. When he stares into the school bus looking for his next hot meal, he licks the glass as he makes longing eyes at them. This is how he lets guys know he wants them. There are also a ton of scenes with the guys tanning their bodies. The guys also sing a song that has the c-word for the male sex organ repeated numerous times. This song was all the Creeper needed to hear to know that they swing his way."Jeepers Creepers 2" is as brain dead as a horror movie can get. The school bus breaks down, the Creeper flies around and that's it. There's not much here in the way of variety or imagination. There were some decent action scenes as the farmer went night fishing for Creeper. "Jeepers Creepers 2" would make a decent rental.But there is only one thing on the Creeper's mind, and it ain't eating. Love shack! Baby Love Shack! Hop in my Chrysler, it's as big as a WHALE!!!
21 out of 30 people found the following review useful: works on some levels, 30 August 2003 Author: Special-K88
Decent follow-up to Jeepers Creepers takes place just days after the original. The story focuses on a group of athletic high school kids (a varsity team along with their coaches and cheerleaders), who are on their way home when they get stranded in the middle of nowhere after their bus breaks down. They soon come to the terrifying realization that it wasn't an accident, and that they're all being hunted by a meticulous monster who's in the midst of a timely feeding frenzy. At times exciting, with more than enough violence and effective scares make this good fun if you're willing to pardon the annoyingly one-note characters and banal dialogue. **½
13 out of 16 people found the following review useful: Scary follow-up...a winged creature frightens stranded teen-agers on a bus..., 19 August 2006 Author: Neil Doyle from U.S.A.
Not since the early days of Wes Craven thrillers have we had a really good fright flick to scare us in true Halloween fashion. This one does the trick thanks to some extra good CGI effects and some scary situations in the middle of a deserted countryside where teens find themselves menaced by a winged creature determined to make them his flesh-eating victims.In the only adult role, RAY WISE does a convincing job of making it all look reasonable enough to swallow--and it owes a lot of its punch to the imaginative tales of authors like Stephen King. There are no standout performances among the various teens, but all of them look incredibly afraid of the winged creature--with good reason. The make-up job here is marvelously chilling.The story is the stuff dreams are made of--or rather, nightmares. And it's all done with extremely clever build-up of suspense as the teens, one by one, become divisive and challenge each other in ways that only undermine their vulnerability. A few of the scenes are very graphic in depicting the creature's stranglehold on his victims and not for the squeamish--or the young and impressionable.Recommended as a good fright flick, nothing more. But credit must be given to director Victor Salva for keeping the whole tale tense and taut with visual excitement.Summing up: An above average thriller of its kind. Jonathan Breck makes one scary Creeper.
12 out of 15 people found the following review useful: Worthy sequel!, 14 July 2006 Author: José Luis Rivera Mendoza (jluis1984) from Mexico
2 years after the surprising success of "Jeepers Creepers", Victor Salva returns with a sequel that continues where the original left. Although at first reluctant to making a sequel, Salva crafts a competent horror film that continues exploring the formula of the supernatural hunter in the desolated rural setting. Despite having the obvious flaws of a minor sequel, "Jeepers Creepers II" is a worthy follow up that has its own share of tricks to keep the fans happy.The plot of the film follows a school bus of a local high school that just won the championship and are on their way back home. To their misfortune, the Creeper (Jonathan Breck) is one the loose as he is on the final day of his 23 days eating cycle, so this ruthless hunter will do whatever is necessary to find food before his time runs out. But the Creeper has another problem, he is being hunted down by Jack Taggart (Ray Wise) the father of one of his victims who is looking for revenge.While it lacks the originality of the first one, "Jeepers creepers II" has a more focused and consistent plot due to the fact that the Creeper is now an identifiable villain. Victor Salva's new tale of rural horror is now a full-fledged supernatural horror in the vein of Wes Craven's "A Nightmare on Elm Street", where typical elements of Americana become sources of horror. Having most of the movie set inside of the school bus with the cast's fears and personalities clashing makes a good source for classic suspense and tension between characters.Visually, the film is a step forward and showcases that deep down the obvious commercial intentions of this film, Salva is still an artist that has a great eye for visual compositions. His camera-work does miracles both in and out of the school bus (the movie's main location) and he captures the lovely and scary things about rural North America. The visual effects of the film are not as good as in the first one, but they are still effective and the CGI is not that dominant.The young cast does a fine job and the overall performance is not as poor as one could expect. However, they are nothing spectacular and some seem to had been chosen based more on looks rather than talent. The two veterans of the movie are where talent is. Jonathan Breck and Ray Wise give the film soul as the opposite forces who are destined to clash. Breck is quite good as the Creeper and looks more comfortable in the role now; Wise on the other hand, is a scene stealer and he owns the film every time he is on screen."Jeepers Creepers II" has a lot of what's good about modern horror movies, but sadly, it carries also some of the worst. The fast packed action at times gets distracting and contrasts badly with Salva's honest attempts to create suspense and atmosphere. There is an apparent effort in developing characters and while in some cases it works, in others it terribly fails (due mostly to the actor's lack of talent). also, it is fair to point out that the movie lacks the scares of the first one as it has more in common with the final part of it. It is great fun and entertainment, but if scares are what you are looking, better look elsewhere.To summarize, the film is an entertaining and very well-directed scary movie that makes a worthy sequel to the original one. Victor Salva's second part of the series is a good addition if you liked the first one, otherwise it will be just another teen horror movie. Personally I liked it, but it would be wiser to rent it first. 6.5/10
7 out of 10 people found the following review useful: Pedophile Creeper?, 8 March 2005 Author: spider63 from United States
Convicted pedophile Victor Salva cashes in for the second time on a creature with Bat wings (Batman??) who likes to kill teenage boys. The action starts when a bus full of High School teens (mostly boys) is attacked by the Creeper. Why is he attacking? Well, since the story is so lame that there is no background to the main character, a girl who has psychic powers explains that the Creeper comes back to kill five teenage boys every 23 years. But wasn't the last movie two years before? Did the Creeper get his calendars mixed up? Why every 23 years? Where is he the rest of the time? Well, don't expect the psychic to answer everything. The only good thing about this movie is that the teens are so highly annoying that seeing them get Creeped is actually a good thing. The Creeper in this movie rips his own head off and then he pulls the head off of a teenager and puts it under the hump in his back and the teen's head pops up through the Creeper's neck. Instead of the Creeper looking like the teenager whose head he is using, the head immediately changes to look like the Creeper.Whenever the Creeper pulls off an arm or leg, the limbs seem to be made of rubber, and they pull apart like a chunk of rubber. His insides are all black, and there aren't any gross organs or strangely colored blood. Apparently the Creeper has no blood and no organs, and he is just made out of black rubber. Perhaps he was created at some Tire Company as a result of an industrial accident. At one point the Creeper is missing most of his rubbery limbs, and he starts flopping forward to get to a teenager so he can somehow absorb the teen's limbs. Do they turn into rubber as soon as he puts their body parts into his hump? The Creeper is a pretty boring and very dumb movie. There is no continuity between this movie and the first one. Considering the years of the automobiles which are used in both movies, neither one could be the sequel of the other one if you accept that the Creeper only appears every 23 years. At the end of the movie, the Creeper has been gone for 23 years again, setting up for the next sequel. That means that Victor Salva will have been able to put 69 years worth of Creeper appearances in the period of time between the 1970s and the next sequel. JC2 really has no redeeming social value. It is not even a good horror movie.
23 out of 42 people found the following review useful: Underperforming sequel, 30 May 2004 Author: Greg (gregmoroberts@yahoo.com) from Oakville, Ontario
Back in 2001, audiences were introduced to a creature which we came to understand fed every 23 years for 23 days. Why? Well, let's not worry about that.The movie was Jeepers Creepers, and I have to admit that I gave the first installment a mild thumbs up as there were some genuine frights and a villain that was as uniquely interesting as the first time Freddy Krueger reached from under Johnny Depp's bed. It wasn't a movie that I would tell friends and family to fork over $13 bucks for to see on the big screen, but for a late, rainy Saturday evening, one could do worse.Well, skip ahead two years, and the moderate success of the first installment brought back writer/director, Victor Salva to continue the story of the feeding creature in the crops. I imagined Victor sitting at his word processor and thinking aloud to himself, `Hmmm. Ok… The creature feeds every 23 years and it has only been two since the last movie, so we better not dwell too much on that topic. Ok… For a sequel we need a bigger body count and sexier stars so lets have a full school bus of ballplayers and cheerleaders stranded and being picked off one by one. Ok…. We need to recognize the first film and show continuity so lets have the main actor from Jeepers Creepers I appear in the sequel. Oh wait… I killed him off. Ok…. Let's have him back in a dream sequence. Yeah! That'll work! Ok…. Last thing to worry about is trying to give the creature new characteristics while still making him vulnerable. I got it! Let's have him lose his head in one scene and replace it with one of the heads of the school children. Excellent. And then let's top off the thrills with having a vengeful father who creates a weapon that will ultimately destroy the creature. Got it! Good to go!'I doubt I am going verbatim with what might have been thought or said while trying to shop Jeepers Creepers 2, but I don't think I am straying too far from the truthful facts either. Jeepers Creepers 2 does offer more victims a la every horror sequel and most of the male characters are unbelievable brats that like to get their screen time without their shirts on. They run around uttering such ridiculous dialogue as `We have just dropped a notch on the food chain, man' while showing no signs of protecting he females they lust after so much within their own group. Jeepers Creepers 2 had double the budget as did the first, so it is not surprising that the creature gets more computer generated close-ups or scenes where he flies around picking off his victims at will (Didn't he drive a truck in the first one?). However, instead of this developing the evil being, it desensitizes us and quite frankly, I was as bored of him as I was of Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees after their second kick at the can. For horror fans, I still expect that this film was a bit of a disappointment. The characters were so annoying that you found yourself routing for the creature and as far as beatings go, the creature was stabbed, decapitated, speared, impaled and thrown through a windshield all to no avail. Where is the tension therefore if a creature is virtually indestructible? www.gregsrants.com
2 out of 2 people found the following review useful: LOLZ awesome movie, 16 March 2009 Author: zebbadebbadoo from United States
i have to say, i watched this last night nd i found it more funny than scary XD.... just the faces the creeper was making at the kids on the bus i was dying from laughter Also, i love the horror movie logic in this film...... like if people that are outside of the bus are getting snatched, that OBVIOUSLY means that u stay outside of the bus nd continue on with putting flares down Don't get me wrong, the movie was really good and there were a couple of freaky parts like wen the chick has a dream nd the boys eyes are gone, or wen u first see the creeper's face, or wen the guy's head gets ripped off..... its just that i remember people were so terrified by this movie, and it is THAT scary, it was more funny :P
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