This film will scare the shite out of you if you're afraid of flying scarecrows. If not, this boring sequel will make you wonder if you really liked this first one as much as you thought.
The entire film is still horribly written but it's a pretty solid step up from the first one, probably because it’s more full-on creature feature, action-packed, hilarious, and also scarier. This one provides plenty of 'creeper' moments and leaning more into the camp factor, and I'd say it works better for me. It's a lot of fun to watch with the suspense sequences that still manage to keep you on the edge of your seat. I absolutely love the intense beginning when the creeper disguises as a scarecrow, and he looks terrifying. The open area where they're trapped within the bus is well-utilized and really elevates the tension.
The first "Jeepers Creepers" was surprisingly entertaining. It had an effective beast and it was as creepy as its name clearly indicated. Much of that creepiness is probably due to the fact that the director is a convicted child molester. I didn't find that out until after watching this, so I won't be taking in any of his movies in the future.
In short, this is more action movie than horror. Ray Wise entertains as an unlikely. practically super hero. The monster is really effective. The high school kids who are killed off are all useless other than to provide the dead meat the story requires.
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I explained in my review of the first Jeepers Creepers film that I really liked the monster, but man, I'd never guess that in the sequel he would be licking the windshield of a damned bus full of teenagers. That scene was weird! However the decapitation that followed looked great!
Anyway, the sequel is more action based and we see a lot more of the Creeper. He can fly really fast, we see him replace his head, we even see him hopping around and he gets hunted by Ray Wise! Yeah! GO RAY!
He hunts a group teenagers on his last day before he has to wait another 23 years. So he goes after them hard! And the whole film we see the Creeper picking him off one by one. Gone is the suspense of the first film and here we get waiting for gore, gore, gore. But there isn't as much as you'd expect.
But still it was okay to watch once. I hoped it would be more but it wasn't. And now to be honest, I don't have high hopes for a third Jeepers Creepers that came out 14 years later....
Well it was just Ok. The first one was pretty fun, as for this one, it dropped down about one tier from the last, but I’ll probably not continue watching the Jeepers Creepers franchise after this one, because it looks like they drop down in quality more and more as they continued to make more sequels.
I actually found this one to be on a par with the original; completely different story but, for some reason, the whole "school bus" part of the story made this one just a touch more scary. Maybe it was the idea of being trapped while some otherworldly creature takes its time stalking you and figuring out a way to eventually get to you. The conclusion was great, but the one weakness that I had was the whole issue with "Minxie" and her "premonition"; it was just kind of thrown into the story with ZERO explanation: Was she dreaming during the bus trip? Where, when, and how did she come across "the boy" ( Darius from the first Jeepers Creepers film)? We see her "learning" about The Creeper from "the boy", but there's absolutely no explanation of what happened, etc. That (to me) made for a very annoying hole in the entire plot of this particular film. Like "Scotty" posited during one of his rants, "One second you're a cheerleader at a ballgame, and the next you're a psychic?!" That's essentially how that particular part of this story felt. Apart from that one very glaring weakness, however, I found this one to be a very easy-to-watch film. It had some parts that were a touch more gory than the first film, but even with that, it wasn't very "scary" at all; like the original, it had something of a "creepy" feel to it more than "scary". I know it doesn't say much for a "horror" movie if you can actually laugh while watching it but I have to admit there were a couple scenes that were so goofy that I actually did laugh out loud. I have to shave a couple points off for that reason but it was still a decent movie. In my opinion, however, had they kept that "creepy" feel through the entire movie that was sensed in the opening scenes, this could have gone from being a "good" movie to a "great" horror film. It felt like they tried too hard, though, and somewhere in there the story really got sideways with the turmoil amongst the school kids. It (the turmoil) wasn't "confusing" but it was definitely distracting and took away from the overall creepy feel of the movie. Giving this one a 6.5 but leaning it towards the 7 mark.
"Two classes of people? What, the "will be eaten" and the "won't be eaten"?"
I watched this in the theaters when it first came out, and I hadn't seen the first one in theaters so I was excited to see the creeper on the big screen. I also remember it not being near as good as the first one. It isn't but that doesn't mean it is a bad movie. They expanded on what the creeper can do and there are some really memorable moments from it (I still hate scarecrows because of this movie).
Shout by George KoryntaBlockedParent2018-06-03T18:08:09Z
The best thing about this movie was definitely the music. Well done. The movie itself wasn't that atmospheric as the first one, yet it still had some nice moments