Jeepers Creepers 2

Every 23 years for 23 days, he gets to feed and with just over a day left, The Creeper (Breck) is making the most of his time. A busload of high school students is the ideal feast to see him through his long sleep but the father (Wise) of one of his earlier victims has other ideas, he wants to put him to sleep perminately.

After the disappointing original made an awful lot of money, there was bound to be a sequel but will The Creeper become a great horror creation?

The answer is a plain no. The problem with this movie and many others like it is that monsters are just not frightening. In fact the original movie was ruined by the introduction of the creature after a very tense and genuinely frightening first half. Mythical or supernatural creatures don't have the menace or foreboding of a human killer. There is always a voice in the back of your mind saying these things don't exist so you never really fear them to the level that the filmmakers would like you to.

There aren't even any strong human characters to get behind that could raise the movie up a notch. All of the young teenage cast, the stable food of any killer in American horror cinema, don't have any sense of believability between them. Each of their performances consists of frightened looks, running and screaming and arguing between themselves. Nicki Aycox's character Minxie (where do they get these names?) even develops the power to communicate with The Creepers former victims leading to a very short and unnecessary cameo from the original star Justin Long. The reason for this is never explained and that is the major problem with the movie.

What is The Creeper? Where does it come from? Why does it have to sleep for twenty-three years between feasts? None of these questions are answered and this is solely down to writer/director Victor Salva. After doing such a good job with the first half of the original movie, the introduction of The Creeper seemed lazy and anticlimactic. With the sequel he has just continued that contrived sequence and extended it for another 104 minutes meaning none of the questions posed by the first movie or even this one are answered. With only two really graphic killings and the rest consisting of The Creeper flying off with someone, even the gore quota isn't enough to save the movie, even though the special effects and The Creeper design are quite good.

Jeepers Creepers 2 is a very average sequel to a very average original. No new ground is covered and nothing new is injected into a movie that completely lacked any originality in the first place.

Audio commentary from director Victor Salva and members of the cast
Deleted scenes
'Making Jeepers Creepers 2' featurette
'A Day In Hell': a full day visit to the set
'Creeper Creation - Makeup' featurette
'Digital Effects' featurette
'Creeper Composer' featurette
'The Creeper's Lair' storyboards
Photo gallery & Trailers
Interactive menu & Scene access

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