Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)

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(55%)

Starring:	Ray Wise \| Jonathan Breck \| Garikayi Mutambirwa \| Eric Nenninger \| Nicki Lynn Aycox
Director:	Victor Salva
Studio:	PATHE DISTRIBUTION
Run time:	95 mins
Genres:	Audio Descriptive \| Horror
Languages:	English, English Audio Description
Hearing-impaired:	English
Released:	January 16, 2004
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The prehistoric winged slime ball known as the Creeper is back for seconds in JEEPERS CREEPERS II, on an all-you-can-eat binge before hibernating for another 23 years. His first victim is local farm boy Billy Taggert (Shaun Fleming), whose shocked father Jack (wild-eyed Ray Wise) watches, uncomprehending, as his son disappears amidst violently rustling corn husks. The monomaniacal Taggert scours the surrounding area for clues, but the Creeper (Jonathan Breck) has moved onto its next target: a school bus full of basketball players. As jocks Jake Spencer (John Hammond) and Scott Braddock (Eric Nenninger) torment gay high school journalist Izzy Bohen (Travis Schiffner) and clairvoyant cheerleader Minxie Hayes (Nicki Lynn Aycox), the Creeper watches. When the bus breaks down on East 9 Highway, the Creeper pounces, employing supernatural olfactory powers to sniff out the morsels that suit his rather finicky tastes. Token nerd Bucky (Billy Aaron Brown) gets a radio signal over to Taggert, the bereaving dad who is now hellbent on revenge and is carrying the one weapon that may be a match for the evil Creeper.
Like the original JEEPERS CREEPERS, director Victor Salva's sequel is several cuts above average horror fare. The director has a demonstrated affinity for classic filmmaking and makes frequent references to THE BIRDS, bringing Hitchcock's quiet dread to a no-holds-barred, adrenaline-boosting horror film modelled after the FRIDAY THE 13TH, NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, and SCREAM series.

Rating of 3 stars out of 5

Director Victor Salva returns with his bat-winged creation “The Creeper” for this campy sequel to the popular 2001 horror shocker. Here, the flying flesh eater has one more day to gorge on human body parts before his automatic hibernation cycle begins. What unfolds is a B-movie-style monster flick, as the creature disables a school bus and then starts picking off his chosen victims from the obnoxious teens within. The bickering youngsters provide plenty of tension as they try to formulate their escape, while the isolated, largely night-time setting adds to the overall sense of vulnerability and unease. Yet, for all its gory chills, the film is predominantly tongue-in-cheek and blackly comic, thus avoiding the logic flaws that ultimately hampered the original. Returning actor Jonathan Breck is joyously over the top as the famished fiend, but it's avenging father Ray Wise in Captain Ahab mode who gives the relentless tale its most theatrical shot of fun.

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13 out of 23 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 2 stars
Didn't learn from their mistakes

Viren Udeshi from Coventry, UK, 16th February, 2004

Let me just refer to the first one. Jeepers Creepers was only just creadible because of the first 30 mins took on a Thriller like quality. It quickly shot down hill after that into pantomine style horror. I thought everyone knew that, apart from the guys who made Jeeper Creeper 2, who took that patonmine style from the first one and dragged it even further down a step cliff Completly destroying any sane notion of adding another installment to this franchise.

The story is weak, a bunch of jocks and three cheerleaders (one of which conveiently becomes psychic and therefore an expert on the creeper) get a flat tire or two and trapped on their school bus whilst the creeper plays peek-a-boo from the outside.

With no real lead character and even a liklable or indentifiable character its difficult to real care about any of the sterotypes on the bus (from which 80% of the film takes place in).

Not scary, not funny, not any good, not worth any of your time.

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