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Jeepers Creepers (2001)

August. 31,2001
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6.2
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On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.

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Vashirdfel
2001/08/31

Simply A Masterpiece

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Spidersecu
2001/09/01

Don't Believe the Hype

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Cleveronix
2001/09/02

A different way of telling a story

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Afouotos
2001/09/03

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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a_chinn
2001/09/04

Wonderfully creepy, get-under-your-skin horror movie! Writer/director Victor Salva frames the film with a fairly basic unstoppable monster movie set-up, with a brother and sister traveling across the country and finding themselves stalked by The Creeper, but Salva tells his story with so much flavor and texture that "Jeepers Creepers" stands apart from most horror films. The film's timeless setting, which is clearly contemporary but feels as if it could also have been in an earlier time, such as the1920s dust bowl or a post war 1950s, give the film mythical feel. The film's use of sound design is exceedingly good, from the Creeper's truck horn, to the ambient sounds of the Creeper's lair, to the echoey record playing of Paul Whiteman's version of Jeepers Creepers, all burns into your memory. Director Salva also fills the film with eerie visuals that equally burn themselves into your brain, such as the the long drainpipe leading to the Creeper's lair, or The Creeper's frightening silhouetted axe, or the film's final image, which I won't spoil here. In addition to eerie imagery and sound design, Salva fills his film with a wonderful amount of suspense and dread. As a writer, Salva does a nice job of slowly revealing the lore behind this mysterious Creeper figure. (SPOILER ALERT!) There's one moment late in the film after The Creeper has been run over by a car and a large single wing suddenly appears from the prone figure and is a wonderful oh-my-gosh-what-is-going-on-here moment! Overall, "Jeepers Creepers" is a must see for horror film fans and is a rather unique rural supernatural horror tale, but I don't believe "Jeepers Creepers" is a film that will appeal to a wider audience.

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Some Guy Name
2001/09/05

This movie was above average as just a movie(not really a horror) and it was genuinely funny. It's the only horror that I've ever seen that has comedy elements at the right timing, so as to not ruin the scares - but the scares, in and of themselves, were not good enough. I know it's a tired complaint that "people act stupid in horror movies", but most of the time I disagree, or at least understand the character's motivation. But in this one, the lack of suspension of disbelief - on behalf of stupidity - actually managed to ruin much of the movie for me. An example, early spoilers: so the siblings is harassed by some creepy dude in a car, and they later see him throwing some suspiciously lumpy sheets down a pipe. They decide to go back and check if those were really dead people - that's fine, I understand being curious. But then the brother gets stuck down the pipe with a bunch of bodies, and instead of yelling at his sister to go get some help, he demands that she waits at the road for someone else to drive by, so that she can tell them to go get the police. This is completely unbelievable; nobody would ever leave their car out in the open like that, when it is clearly established that an apparent serial killer is one of the only ones who frequents the place. And since the creepy dude previously saw that they were two in the car, he'll just go kill them both the second he spots it - so it's not even in the brother's own selfish interest that she stays. Why not just hide, and wait for his sister come back with the police? I know they actually got away, and I know it's minor, but it just bugged me.Adding to that, when the brother sees the first body, he takes minutes to even react, and when he finally starts looking for an exit, he stops to do stuff like properly tie his shoes, and further stare at all the bodies. A real non-fictional human would instantly panic at the first sign of death, and get the hell outta there, because stuff like like this are what helped us survive as a species. "I'm not seeing this" - no, cause you'd be gone right now. Situations like these happens all the time in this movie, and that's sad. Because it doesn't mean that the jump-scares are not perfectly timed, and that this movie is not exciting, or original. It also has a lot of indie-charm to it. It just ruins much of the great pacing and atmosphere, when the only time you will ever see a character just standing there, is in the face of immediate danger.And one last thing. The description for this movie - ritual murder monster - is a huge spoiler, and only first revealed by the second half of the movie. I spent the first twenty minutes being scared of the person in the car, and then I read the description and spent the rest of the time waiting for the monster to appear, killing the suspension. That said, the simple lore behind the monster was great. I just wish it didn't look at stupid as it did, and that it had eaten someone's hair as a first priority.

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Zombie Bunnie
2001/09/06

I re-watched this last night, I remembered not liking it when it first came out, but I thought maybe I had judged it wrongly, plus my wife had never seen it before so we gave it a shot. We shouldn't have! The movie has potential, the story could be interesting, and it could even be scary if it tried a little harder, but the script/dialogue and acting absolutely ruin it. The two leads spend so much of the film with their mouths hanging wide open while staring past the camera, that it could easily be turned into some kind of drinking game. Though no number of drinks would improve the entertainment value of the absolutely frustrating actions taken by the two main characters. Don't waste your time on this one.

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jordansepticeye
2001/09/07

I thought this movie was gonna be mediocre,based on the Scooby Doo like title and the reviews,but this was excellent.First off,the story,the concept was so creepy and unique,I can't really explain it without spoiling the movie,so I'll just say it was great.Second,the atmosphere,yes there is gore,but the movie doesn't focus on that,it focuses on tension and suspense.Third,the characters,they are well acted,well developed,and feel real.The effects are great,and so is the main villain,the Creeper,you don't know much about him,which makes him even more scary.The setting was good,but last,the pacing,it may have been slow,but I was glued to the screen the whole time.Now onto the negatives,I thought although the movie was overall dark and creepy,there was many cheesy moments that took me out of the movie and some bad dialogue,but that's it.Jeepers Creepers is a well made,suspenseful movie with some stupid moments

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