Jeepers Creepers

December 11, 2004

Rated: R Runtime: 90 min Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

Movies For Guys’ Original Review of the Theatrical Release

Jeepers Creepers

Jeepers Creepers is a good old fashioned booger movie with cheap thrills, blood, a silly premise, humor, a really bad guy and some gore. The only thing it’s missing is some pointless nudity, which might have gotten it an extra star.

We start off with a brother and sister riding home from college to visit mom. There’s a bit of time spent here to let us get to know the characters, but I couldn’t help thinking to myself “let talk, more slashing!” However, there is some funny dialogue here if you pay attention, so the time isn’t a complete waste.

Before long they are victims of a nasty bit of road rage, which brings up the obligatory telling of a school legend about a couple who were killed on this very road. Ohh… scary!

OK, I’m being too harsh. The movie really does do a good job of building tension for the first 45 minutes or so, then things start to get a little.. strange. Suffice it to say that the movie doesn’t do a great job of explaining the bad guy and how he ends up “feeding” every “26th spring”. I suppose it doesn’t really matter though as long as it offers some good moments of fright, and judging from the girls in the audience it did a pretty good job in this regard.

I’m gonna wrap this up before I say more than I should. While it’s not too hard to see where this movie is going, the final conclusions might catch you off guard. If you like mindless horror flicks, you’re gonna like this movie. Otherwise, just wait for the rental and hope for some deleted scenes!

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Posted by John | Filed Under 3 Stars, DVD, Eileen Brennan, Gina Philips, Horror, Jonathan Breck, Justin Long, Patricia Belcher, R