JEEPERS CREEPERS

Starring: Gina Philips, Justin Long, Eileen Brennan and Jonathan Breck
Director: Victor Salva
Running Time: 90 mins
Certificate: 15

Available to buy on DVD 1st April

Brother and Sister, Darius (Long) and Trisha (Philips) are on their way home for spring break from College. While taking the more scenic route, they are overtaken by a very aggressively driven old brown van. Later down the road they see that same van parked up next to a church and it's owner dropping body shaped packages, wrapped in white sheets with what look like blood stains on them, down an old sewer pipe. After a lot of arguing the pair decide to investigate, only to find themselves as the next possible victims.

Why is it that horror films with monsters in them are never as scary as when the killer is human? The pure incomprehensible evil of one human torturing and killing another human being, to me, is far scary than any monster Hollywood can dream up. That is why films like the original Halloween and Scream work so well.

This movie on the other hand, is just another monster movie and not a very good one at that. The movie starts very well, introducing the characters and building up the suspense, but then all the credibility the writer had tried so hard to introduce is vaporised by the main villain. Nothing is explained about its intensions, it's reasons or it's origins and this is what lets the whole second half of the movie down. You end up feeling cheated of the frights the first half had been building up to, ending up with what seems like a bad episode of The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits.

I expected a lot more from this movie after all the positive reviews it had in the States and that Francis Ford Coppola produced it but what we are greeted with is just another crappy monster movie that relies on gore and cheap shocks to sell tickets.

Screen-specific Audio Commentary with Director Victor Salva, Extended / Deleted Scenes, Stills Gallery, 'Behind The Peepers' - A Making Of Jeepers Creepers Documentary (1 hour), Trailers, Interactive Menu & Scene Access


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