Jeepers Creepers 2 (Special Edition)
by Victor Salva
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Actor: Eric Nenninger, Garikayi Mutambirwa, Jonathan Breck, Nicki Aycox, Ray WiseDirector: Victor Salva
Brand: BRECK,JONATHAN
Writer: Victor Salva
Producer: Bobby Rock
Producer: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Kirk D'Amico
Producer: Lucas Foster
Producer: Philip von Alvensleben
Producer: Tom Luse
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-12-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Jeepers Creepers 2 (Special Edition)
DVD Review: More fun than scary
Summary: 4 Stars
The first "Jeepers Creepers" is a ripping good, but not great, horror movie. It told the story of Trish and Darry Jenner, a brother and sister traveling through the Midwest on the way home from college. The two ran into a supernatural creature, a flying demon in fact, who kept an underground crypt stocked with human corpses gathered on previous excursions. This demon sleeps for a number of years before waking for a couple of weeks to wreak havoc on the surrounding countryside. Trish and Darry got on the beastie's bad side, unfortunately, and spent most of the film trying to stay one step ahead of this grotesque monstrosity. The conclusion of the first film proved disastrous for one of the Jenner kids while providing a lesson to those of us stupid enough to investigate underground crypts full of corpses. "Jeepers Creepers" was enough of a success at the box office that director Victor Salva signed on to do a sequel a couple of years later. "Jeepers Creepers 2" reintroduces us to the icky creature from the first film even as it fulfills an important prerequisite of any horror sequel: upping the body count and punching up the special effects. Gone is the intimacy of the first film.
"Jeepers Creepers 2" takes place just a few days after the nightmare of the first film unfolded. The hunting period of the demon is just about over, so he's out and about trying to claim a few more victims before going nighty night. We come in to see him posing as a scarecrow in the fields of farmer Taggart (Ray Wise). Sadly, Taggart's youngest child falls prey to the Jeeper Creeper right under the gaze of the farmer and his other son. The farmer vows revenge. Meanwhile, a busload of football players and cheerleaders cruises down the road, oblivious to the danger about to swoop out of the sky. When the bus's tire blows, one of the supervising adults discovers a weird, homemade throwing star lodged in the rubber. When another tire blows an hour or so later due to another of these strange stars, it's obvious something downright dangerous is going on. Sure enough, something swift swoops down and whisks the bus driver away. It doesn't take any time at all for all of the adults to perish in excruciating ways, courtesy of the demon, and the kids are left alone to decide the best way to survive. The Jeeper Creeper ratchets up the tension by peering in through a window and pointing to his future victims in a particularly lascivious manner.
The kids try to contact the authorities with the bus's radio to no avail. Then they begin arguing amongst themselves about the best way to escape their fate. Differing ideas about what to do escalate racial tensions between black player Deaundre Davis (Garikayi Mutumbirwa) and a bitter white athlete named Scott Braddock (Eric Nenninger). The Creeper takes advantage of the general dissension to tear up the outside of the bus, punch a hole through the ceiling, and tear one of the kids apart. Just when everything seems hopeless, the kids manage to make radio contact with none other than Taggart and his son, who are out patrolling the back roads looking for the Creeper in a pick up truck armed with a giant homemade harpoon gun. The scenes showing Taggart using the gun on the demon are quite frightening, but the weapon ultimately fails to stop the creature from rampaging amongst the fleeing youths. It's worth watching the film just to see a bunch of teenage kids running across a field while a giant winged CGI creature picks them off with the greatest of ease. We could have used one of these Creepers at my high school. The conclusion to the film leaves the door open for a possible sequel even though Salva says he's not interested in making another one.
The second installment lacks a lot of the punch of the first one. By focusing on two characters in the original film, Salva made the movie more personal and therefore more frightening. You came to know these two people and even care a bit about them. It is difficult to have the same feelings about a busload of kids. There are just too many characters to get to know intimately, although Salva does his best to highlight different personality traits so we can at least recognize who is perishing at the hands (talons?) of the Creeper and why. What works in the sequel? I thought the heavier use of CGI effects, particularly when showing the Creeper zipping around in the sky, were nicely done and didn't overwhelm the film as so many special effects tend to do today. Too, Salva's cinematography work looks great. I loved the creamy golden tone he added to the film during the opening scenes on the Taggart farm, a tone that gave that part of the movie a dreamy, peaceful quality which contrasted wonderfully to the shattering horror of the Creeper "scarecrow" suddenly coming to life. Finally, the claustrophobic confines of the bus, while hardly original in a horror film, did serve to heighten and maintain the tension throughout the movie.
Once again, MGM surprises us with a disc full of extras. Maybe they finally got the idea that DVDs should contain more than the movie and a trailer. We get a couple of commentary tracks, MGM promos, deleted scenes, and many documentaries. There are also trailers for "Jeremiah," "Bulletproof Monk," "Out of Time," "Shredder," and both Jeepers Creepers films. Fans of the first film will definitely want to check this one out. I seem to recall that this particular film made a lot of money at the box office, so expect another sequel sometime in the future even if Salva refuses to helm it.
Description of Jeepers Creepers 2 (Special Edition)
A stranded school bus of high school students are terrorized by an ancient creature.Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Release Date: 3-AUG-2004
Media Type: DVD
Despite the usual symptoms of sequelitis, Jeepers Creepers 2 delivers the goods for those who enjoyed the 2001 original--a group large enough to propel this sequel to a record-setting opening in August 2003. While establishing the flesh-eating "Creeper" as a new horror icon with frantic action and more elaborate special effects, writer-director Victor Salva follows the traditional formula, dispensing with plot almost altogether and focusing entirely on threat, menace, mayhem, and gore. That's likely to disappoint horror fans hoping for a more revealing exploration of the Creeper's origins (room for another sequel, perhaps?), and by trapping nondescript teens in a school bus attacked by the Creeper, Salva severely limits the movie's overall potential. Still, there's something to be said for straightforward shocks, and Jeepers Creepers 2 delivers enough of them to justify its profitable existence. --Jeff Shannon
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