Starring:
Gina Philips as Trish Jenner Justin Long as Darry Jenner Jonathan Breck as The Creeper Patricia Belcher as Jezelle Gay Hartman
I will admit that I had reservations about watching Jeepers
Creepers. I had been disappointed with the cookie cutter
horror films that the late 90’s had produced. The last thing
the horror community needed was another I Know What You Did
Last Summer or Scream series. But being a
glutton for punishment (or a glutton for someone
else’s punishment) and loving horror films soooo much I
decided to give Jeepers Creepers a chance - and I
was pleasantly surprised.
Jeepers Creepers
starts with Trish Jenner (Gina Philips) and her brother Darry (Justin
Long) driving home from college. They are doing what siblings normally
do. They are picking at each other, calling each other names and
generally getting on each others nerves and
enjoying it.
Having not seen
another vehicle on the
lone two lane highway that they have been traveling down, they are
terrified when an ugly truck bears down on them and attempts to run
them off the road. Upon getting there heads back together,
Trish and Darry continue on and pass the same truck parked by an old
run down building, which later turns out to be a church, and sees the
driver (Jonathan Breck) dumping what looks like bodies
wrapped in sheets down what looks to be a sewer pipe.
Problem is that the driver sees
them also and proceeds to chase them down again. This time he succeeds
in running the two siblings off the road.
Reinforcing my fear
in what the colleges
are teaching our young, Darry decides to go back and verify
what was being thrown down the pipe. He further shows his intelligence
by asking Trish to hold his feet while he tries to get a better look
down the pipe by climbing in.
One thing leads to another and
Trish lets go sending Darry down the pipe and landing in what is
actually the basement of the old run down church building. What Darry
sees down there affects him greatly and he and
Trish will spend the rest of there time trying to make sense of what is
going on around them - with very little help from a psychic (Patricia
Belcher), and trying to escape the monster that is
chasing them.
Jeepers
Creepers’ writer and director Victor Salva does a
good job at following some of the guidelines for a horror film:
•
With good explanation, any monster can become believable.
• Keep the suspense
steady throughout.
• The fewer the main
characters, the less time you have to spend on character development
and the more time you can spend on story development.
• Give the partakers of
said horror film an ending that can stand on its’ own while
still making it possible for the beloved sequel.
Though not
great, Jeepers Creepers is definitely not cookie
cutter either, and is good enough to add to anyone’s movie
library of horror. I would also recommend Jeepers Creepers to anyone
trying to introduce someone to the horror genre as
it has a little bit of everything needed without going too far in any
one thing. Questions
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Jeepers
Creepers’ writer and director Victor Salva does a
good job at following some of the guidelines for a horror film:
Though not
great, Jeepers Creepers is definitely not cookie
cutter either, and is good enough to add to anyone’s movie
library of horror. I would also recommend Jeepers Creepers to anyone
trying to introduce someone to the horror genre as
it has a little bit of everything needed without going too far in any
one thing. 
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