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| Suspense/Horror and Action/Adventure 1 hr. 46 min. MPAA Rating: R for horror violence and language. Release Date: August 29th, 2003 Starring: Jonathan Breck, Justin Long, Nicki Lynn Aycox, Ray Wise, Billy Aaron Brown Directed by:Victor Salva |
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Every 23rd spring for 23 days it gets to feed, today is day 22. As its 23 horrifying days of flesh eating come to an end, an ancient creature known as the Creeper embarks on a final voracious feeding frenzy. The creeper always picks it victims by what body parts it needs or may of lost and by the smell of the fear of the person it is about to eat. A group of varsity basketball players, cheerleaders and coaches are on their way home after winning the state championship but the creeper has other plans for them. The highway they are taking is a lonely stretch of road and there will nobody to help them if the creeper can manage to disable their bus. When it succeeds by taking out their tires the occupants of the bus find themselves stranded on the remote highway and their radio or phones not working so they are unable to call for help or assistance. That’s when the Creeper begins to pick them off one by one. Fighting their own fears and prejudices while trapped aboard the isolated bus, the terrified group of young athletes are forced to come together and do battle against the winged creature hell-bent on completing its grizzly ritual of feasting on humans. They will even get a little help from a farmer who lost a son to the creature and who is hell bent on seeing it destroyed. But it might be to little to late to help the teenagers survive the night, as the creature must go into hibernation again in the morning.
The best horror films show less and use suspense to let the audiences imaginations run away with them and thereby become truly scary. The first Jeepers Creepers did this, never really showing you the Creeper tell the very end and using suspense along the way to fuel the movie. And while it was truly cheesy the movie was still pretty good for a movie coming out of the horror genre. The sequel forgets all this and completely verge away from what made the first one any good. They constantly show the Creeper and the movie has little or no suspense to it. This makes the movie a true disaster and a train wreck as you are not scared for one minute and they even have trouble getting you to jump, which is a horror main staple. The movie quickly degrades into all the rules that the Scream series made fun, as they seemed to be following a handbook on how to make a truly bad and boring horror film. You are never surprised to see any of the characters die or even those that manage to live. They did not even mix a little humor into the movie. The acting was bad, the story was awful, the suspense was non-existent and the whole movie was a complete and utter waste of time. This was a movie that should have never been made as the original was only slightly better than mediocre and the sequel turned out to be one of those horrible movies that are quickly forgot.Do not waste your time or money on this.
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