Jeepers Creepers (2001)

Jeepers Creepers

2001

Starring: Justin Long, Gina Phillips, Jonathan Breck, Patricia Belcher

Directed By: Victor Salva

Ok, someone requested I do this review, so feeling bored and the need to go off on a bad movie, I decided to give it a go. So, Mike, this one's for you man.

Trish (Gina Phillips) and Darry Jenner (Justin Long) are brother and sister coming back home via the back roads for the holiday break. Their journey is uneventful until they are terrorised by 'some jerk' in a beat up old truck – an event they get over until they later see the driver unloading what looks like bodies into a hole as they drive past. Escaping the ensuing chase, Darry insists they go back to see what he was doing – something he deeply regrets doing when he finds mutilated and preserved bodies all over the inside of the pit. They escape the truck again but their attempts to get help lead to nothing and they find themselves battling much more than the psycho driver that they first feared.

From here, it only gets worse. In a clever attempt to first be a horror movie, then a creature feature, Jeepers Creepers loses any hope of being a good movie about fifteen to twenty minutes in. The rest of the time is spent wanting someone to die. Anyone. The cast, the monster, yourself... someone has to pay for this movie. As many "monster" movies as I've seen over the years, this is one that actually had balls... at first. Then, like I said, after the first act, the movie gets quickly neutered and sends you on a depression fit for the next hour.

Trying to decide between monster movie and horror movie (and yes, they're two different genre), Jeepers Creepers never decides on anything except... "Hey! We need a sequel!" No, you don't need a fucking sequel... but we got one anyway. But I'll save that review for another day when I need to vent some anger. The ending is supposed to be some kind of shocker where the audience is supposed to shit themselves, but instead the ending leaves you wanting to puch someone. Namely, the director and writer of this piece of garbage.

Trying to decide between monster movie and horror movie (and yes, they're two different genre), Jeepers Creepers never decides on anything except... "Hey! We need a sequel!" No, you don't need a fucking sequel... but we got one anyway. But I'll save that review for another day when I need to vent some anger. The ending is supposed to be some kind of shocker where the audience is supposed to shit themselves, but instead the ending leaves you wanting to puch someone. Namely, the director and writer of this piece of garbage.

The directing in this movie, like I said above, can't make up it's mind. Is it horror? Is it a monster movie? Is this a teen movie? What the fuck is it? It's not good, that's for sure. Victor Salva didn't use one original shot, idea, or anything else for that matter that didn't already come from something else. Remember the movies Hitchhiker or The Hitcher? Same premise but with a demonic twist.

The monster fx and makeup were decent at best, but nothing to brag about. I found it actually cool when we got to see the things wings, but two good seconds of a movie does not make one great. The gore fx were standard and nothing you really could create with $15 and a trip to Wal Mart at Halloween time.

As low budget as this film was, there was no excuse for the piss poor acting, directing, or writing. I don't care if people think this movie is scary or not, because those people are the one's who get scared when they see their own shadow. You fucking groundhogs you!

Anyway, I can only find one good thing to say about this movie: I only saw it once.

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