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Release Date: 23 December, 2003 Retail Price: $14.95 OUR Price: $13.46 You SAVE: $1.49! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
Jeepers Creepers 2 Reviews
Same old thing
YOU could number the horror films with the imprimatur of Francis Ford Coppola on the fingers of one severely maimed hand, but having acted as executive producer on both the Jeepers Creepers movies, one can only assume he is revisiting his few youthful flirtations with the genre (Dementia 13).
Victor Salva continues the saga of the winged demon, The Creeper, who awakes every 23rd spring to feast on human beings for 23 days before retiring once again. The victims this time around are a busload of high-school football players and their cheerleaders returning from a successful game in an appropriately remote part of the country.
Having picked out from a burst tyre a sharp object that resembles a Ninja star fashioned from human bones and skin, various members of the party are soon being picked out themselves by the Creeper, who has been lying in wait in a neighbouring cornfield posing as a scarecrow.
Better-than-average production values and a decent set of performances (especially from Ray Wise as the farmer whose youngest son is the Creeper's first victim), lift an otherwise standard slasher into another realm.
Unfortunately, with the mystery of the Creeper's identity - upon which the first movie traded so successfully - revealed, the only thing left for Salva to do is increase the gore and limb-removal and up the ante on teenage hysterics.
All of which he does with some style, providing enough quality shock time to satisfy the target audience with an additional dose of humour ("You were waving pom-poms this morning. Now all of a sudden you're a psychic hotline?") and a climax that puts an aerial spin on Ahab's encounter with Moby Dick.
Jeepers Creepers 2- Actually Good
Jeepers Creepers 2, the sequel to the 2001 surprise hit is actually worth watching. Jeepers Creepers was a good horror film
which actually had originality and was suspenseful and scary. The sequel isn't as scary, and is more predictable but still a good B movie. Johnathan Breck reprises his role as the creepers and we a cast loaded of unknown actors. Ray Wise plays a farmer who early in the film loses of his kids to the creepers in a well
done intense sequence. From here the plot continues with a bus of basketball players, cheerleaders and teachers who become the prey of the creeper. The teachers die first, and the kids soon become restless with one another and turn on each other in order to survive. From here we encounter some reasonably scary scenes though with less gore than the original. If you're into gory films this one isn't for you, (even Bad Boys II contains more gore) but if you're into films with a serviceable plot then this will do. Writer/Director Victor Salva creates an exciting picture without being heavy on violence, sexuality or language in contrast to the hardcore Freddy Vs. Jason which wasn't bad. Jeepers Creepers 2 is rated R for Horror Violence and Language, this film is for horror buffs. The gore mainly consists of severed heads, a headless body, and quite a bit of stabbing with javelins, harpoons, etc. There is some occasional strong profanity, racism and homophobia. The ending sequences are rather intriguing, this film has some nice car stunts/crashes. I luckily got to see this one on opening day (August 29), it's worth viewing in theatres, but owning on Video or DVD might be another question.
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