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A terrifying half-bat half-human creature awoke from its 23-year cycle of sleep and has been
feeding on humans for 21 days. It has two more days before going back into hibernation for another 23 years. On the 22nd day, the Creeper, also called the Horror (Jonathan Breck) hits on a small farm and snatches the young son of farmer Jack Taggart (RayWise). On the 23rd day, its target is a school busload of young people on a lonely highway returning from an out of town game. He makes them have a flat tire. His last supper is ready and waiting. But Jack Target isn't about to let the Horror get away once more especially after the loss of his son, and what it is going to do to the school team members.
The creature is sufficiently scary to allow, especially the young audience to let out some screams
and uneasy laughs. This happens when it is shown in close close-up shots, in more shadow than light. It puts up a spectacular show of its abilities to regenerate
itself, to grow destroyed body parts, after eating the needed parts of humans and to fly or zoom at top speed. There is not much of a story, however, as the entire film is
concentrated on his indestructibility and a puny man trying to bring him down. Though he does not have a lengthy role, Ray Wise as the farmer calls attention. Of the ensemble
performers in the bus, Eric Nenninger as the complaining and annoying Scott Braddock does a convincing act. The story is not a narrative; details, however are supplied
through some dreams or visions and newscasters discussing the discovery of hundreds of parts of corpses in an old church. This last is supposed to indicate that the Creeper
has existed for a long long time. The music helps to intensity the story's atmosphere.
The young people in Jeepers Creepers2 show that they are unable to handle their
situation. They become fractions and take off on their own. Scott rejects those teammates he believes the Creeper has chosen and tells them to leave so that the rest
would not be put in jeopardy—not wanting to accept that he is among the chosen because the creature had also looked at him. One positive act clearly discernible is Jack's
older son staying by his father, no matter how many times he has been told to leave or get away, because he is in grave danger. Jack not only wants to do what he could for
the sake of his lost son, but also to save the people in the bus. Further, he would like to do more, if that is possible as the film's end shows. This horror film it
contains violence, acts of savagery like decapitation, and objectionable language.
(Date Reviewed: December 19, 2003)
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