Jeepers Creepers 2

December 10, 2004

Rated: R Runtime: 106 min Rating: 2 out of 5 stars

Jeepers Creepers is one of our favorite horror films from recent history. We knew a sequel was probably inevitable, but we were very skeptical because one of the things that made the first movie so great was the tension building up to finding out exactly what the heck the Creeper is. That’s lost right out of the gate in Jeepers Creepers 2.

Jeepers Creepers 2

The film starts by telling us that every 23 years, it gets to eat for 23 days. We join the action on day 22. And the Creeper is looking for a few good meals before his time expires. News stories on the radio lead us to the conclusion that the time period for the sequel is later in the same feeding period of the first movie.

Character building and dialogue are horrible in this movie even by horror flick standards. They do at least succeed in making us not really feel bad about it whenever one of them becomes a tasty Creeper snack. But one of the things we really enjoyed about the first movie is the tension created by the teenagers doing stereotypical stupid stuff that you just know will get them killed. This time out I dont remember even being startled once, we were just sitting around waiting for the Creeper to come back and kill one of these kids so we could cease listening to the inane dialogue.

We were also ticked at the waste of an R-rating. Sure, there were some dismemberments and such, and maybe we’re just jaded, but that’s likely the only thing that prevented a PG-13. And why were there no nubile young breasts? There were only 3 babes in the entire movie. It was a total sausage fest. And the way these guys kept their shirts off and violated all rules of straight male etiquette with their urinary habits, felt almost like gay porn or something.

We give Jeepers Creepers 2 a grand total of two stars. And the Creeper is the only reason it earned that second star. He’s still one of the coolest bad guys we’ve seen in a horror film in quite a while. Dont even bother with the second movie unless you’ve seen the first one. I would almost recommend waiting and viewing both back to back on DVD, but I fear that’ll only serve to show just how much better the original was.

Posted by Billy Bob | Filed Under 2 Stars, Billy Aaron Brown, Horror, Jonathan Breck, Justin Long, Nicki Lynn Aycox, R, Ray Wise, Theatrical