Two bickering young
siblings named Trish (Gina Phillips) and
Darry (Justin Long) return home from a
college break on a long road in a
countryland down in Arizona.
They encounter an agressive driver in an
old fashioned jeep as it speeds past
them. Later on they encounter the driver
dumping a body into a pipe an abandoned
church basement and then the driver
pushes them off the road. They then drive
back up the road and go to the abandoned
church and see if the victim is alive or
not but he is barely alive and then dies
when Darry discovers him. He spots other
dead bodies too at the church while his
sister keeps an eye out for the jeep.
They try to go to a cafe and call the
police but the local pay hpone rings and
Darry answers it. A lady warns them on
the other end by a psychic named Jazelle
Gay Hartman (Patricia Belcher) about the
killer named the Creeper (Jonathan Breck)
as she says she is dreaming what is going
to happen to them and to run when they
hear the song "Jeepers
Creepers" playing on the radio or
anywhere else.
While the police and the siblings try to
go top the church the police are told
that the church is on fire and then the
Creeper lands on the police car and kills
the police.
Trish and Darry discovers what the
creeper is as he's not at all human as it
eats human lungs so it can see and be a
part of the corpse.
Then the Creeper constantly chases them
down wherever they go but Jazelle tries
to save them from it's evil clutches.
A great spooky
film like Texas Chainsaw Massacre
or Joy Ride. When you
first watch the film you wonder who this
killer is riding that old jeep and then
it gets creepier when the killer isn't
human and then encountering an estranged
woman warning those two siblings if they
hear the old song "Jeepers
Creepers" to just run like the wind.
Plus there's strange goings on in a small
town too
But through the whole film you wonder
what is the point to all of this until
you see the sequel as it explains why.
Gina Philips and
Justin Long have great chemistry
together performing as twin siblings and
make their performances seem real.
Patricia Belcher is great in her
role as the psychic lady Jazelle who
rties to warn the twin siblings about the
Creeper as she seems like she's almost
crazy but caring too.
A body is sewed
up.
A decapitated head of a cop lands on a
road after being chopped off by the
Creeper.
A prisoner in a jail cell is being eaten
up by the Creeper.
The Creeper's hand tears through a police
officer's chest.
The ending is a spoiler so you'll have to
see for yourself what happens to Darry.
Victor Salva
is fantactic with his direction in the
film making it a truly scary flick with
his work on the Creeper played by
Jonathan Breck.
He shows great camera scenes with him in
the darkness and when he is disguised as
a scarecrow at the Cat Lady's house as
well as the creepy old armoured jeep
terrorising the two siblings.
One of his best scene's was when Long's
character falls into the pipe at the
abandoned church's basement and finds a
victim slowly suffocating to death.
I loved Bennet Salvay's
music in this film with the sharp
classical composing in it which is very
in your face sounding.
We also have a soundtrack
by many artists from the good ole days
like "Hush Hush Here Comes the
Bogeyman" by Henry Hall and his
Orchestra
"Peek A Boo" by Echo 3
"Where I'm Not" by
Greg Hawks and the Tremblers
"If Only You Were Mine" by The Two
Dollar Pistols with Tift Merritt
And of course "Jeepers
Creepers" by Paul Whiteman and
his Swing Wing
Trish:
The point of having a cell phone is that
it works when you need it!
Darry:
[about his cellphone] Don't worry
I have a power cord for that.
Trish: Yeah, and I have a
cigarette lighter, THAT DOESN'T WORK!
Trish:
[after being attacked] What the
hell was that guy's problem?
Darry: My guess? INBREEDING!
Darry:
We have to get out of here.
Trish: No, let's stay and feed the
birds.
[after
running over the Creeper]
Darry: Is he dead?
Trish: They never are.
Trish:
You know the part in horror movies when
somebody does something really stupid,
and everybody hates him for it? This is
it.
[Trish
and Darry pull up at the Cat Lady's house]
Darry: Come on, Trish, look at
this place. Let's just keep going. I mean
it, come on.
Trish: You don't wanna get help?
Darry: Help from who?
Trish: Let's just use the phone.
Darry: And call who?
Trish: I don't know.
Darry: And tell them what?
Trish: I don't know!
Darry: "Hey, bum-fuck police,
I'm being chased by a guy who likes to
pull tongues out of severed heads with
his teeth. Is there a special extension
for that?"
The
Cat Lady: That's not my scarecrow.
The
Cat Lady: You got ten seconds to get
your ass out of my yard, and don't think
I'm gonna tell ya twice!
Trish: Get the hell away from him.
Darry: What are you doing, Trish?
Trish: Get the hell away from him!
The
Cat Lady: What the hell did you bring
into my house?
Trish:
Christ, do you think they even have a
phone?
Darry: I'm guessing no phones and
a lot of guns.
Jezelle
Gay Hartman: [to Trish and Darry]
You've got something it likes... one of
you.
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