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Written
& Directed by:
Victor Salva
Starring:
Ray Wise .... Jack
Taggart, Sr.
Jonathan Breck .... The
Creeper
Jonathan Breck .... The
Creeper/Bald Cop
Patricia Belcher ....
Jezelle Gay Hartman
Special Appearances:
Eileen Brennan .... Cat
Lady
Brandon Smith .... Sgt.
David TubbsRelease
Date: München
Fantasy Filmfest: July
21, 2001;Theatrical:
August 31, 2001; Sitges
Film Festival: October
12, 2001 (Spain); Bergen
International Film
Festival: October 20,
2001; Tokyo International
Film Festival: October
21, 2001
*Photo's
courtesy at www.outnow.ch
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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.
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.
The
DVD Features:
- Available
Subtitles: English,
Spanish, French
- Available
Audio Tracks: English
(Dolby Digital 5.1),
French (Dolby Digital 2.0
Stereo), Spanish (Dolby
Digital 2.0 Stereo)
- Commentary
by: director Victor
SalvaUnknown Format
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