Jeepers Creepers II (2003)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Victor Salva

Writers (WGA):

Victor Salva (characters)
Victor Salva (written by)

Release Date:

29 August 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

He can taste your fear.

Plot:

Set a few days after the original, a championship basketball team's bus is attacked by The Creeper, the winged, flesh-eating terror, on the last day of his 23-day feeding frenzy.

Plot Keywords:

Cheerleader | Bus | Fear | High School Basketball | High School

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Ray Wise	...	Jack Taggart, Sr.
Jonathan Breck	...	The Creeper
Garikayi Mutambirwa	...	Deaundre 'Double D' Davis
Eric Nenninger	...	Scott 'Scotty' Braddock
Nicki Aycox	...	Minxie Hayes
Marieh Delfino	...	Rhonda Truitt
Diane Delano	...	Bus Driver Betty Borman
Thom Gossom Jr.	...	Coach Charlie Hanna
Billy Aaron Brown	...	Andy 'Bucky' Buck
Lena Cardwell	...	Chelsea Farmer
Al Santos	...	Dante Belasco
Travis Schiffner	...	Izzy Bohen
Kasan Butcher	...	Kimball 'Big K' Ward
Josh Hammond	...	Jake Spencer
Tom Tarantini	...	Coach Dwayne Barnes

Also Known As:

Jeepers Creepers 2 (USA) (trailer title)
Jeepers Creepers 2: The Second Night (USA) (working title)
Like Hell: Jeepers Creepers 2 (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for horror violence and language.

Runtime:

USA:104 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (Alberta/Ontario) | Canada:18A (British Columbia/Manitoba) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia) | Sweden:15 | Iceland:16 | Malaysia:18SG | Finland:K-15 | Argentina:13 | Australia:R | Brazil:14 | Canada:18A | Chile:TE | France:-12 | Germany:16 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 | Philippines:R-13 | Singapore:NC-16 | South Korea:18 | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #39321)

Filming Locations:

Long Beach, California, USA

Company:

United Artists

Trivia:

Director Victor Salva usually makes a cameo appearance in his movies, but because this film has no good spots for him to appear, his face can be seen very briefly on a magazine when the Creeper reaches through the roof of the bus.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The eyeball on the javelin is looking the wrong way.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Taggert: [yelling out to Billy, who's putting up scarecrows] Billy! Get number three up now. Don't come in to eat before you do. And check the other two! Make sure they're wired up good. I don't want them blowing over again the first big wind.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in A Day in Hell: On the Set of 'Jeepers Creepers II' (2003) (V)

Soundtrack:

The Bannon County Fight Song

Creeper2 is silly, disappointing, mundane and, more often than not, simply boring.

Writer/director Victor Salva scored with a visceral grand slam in Jeepers Creepers. It was dark, campy, scary and primal, not to mention original. He's done much better work, including the amazing Powder, an insightful and vulnerable look into the suffering visited upon people who are different, even in magically empowering ways. But as a horror movie, Creeper was a tribute to Francis Coppola's American Zoetrope studio and the tasty fare we would miss without it.

Sometime between Creeper and Creeper2, Salva and Coppola traded cinema magic for the cha-ching of a half-baked sequel, and the whole legacy of Creeper suffers for it.

It is encumbent upon any would-be sequel to maintain some degree of continuity. We expect Freddy Krueger to have the same costume, including those delightfully devilish digits. Michael Meyers has to wear that stupid mask that was never meant to make the final cut. Salva presents an entirely different Creeper in this movie, and it is a disservice to the character. He's wetter, blacker and, owing to the fact that Salva is a great fan of Creature from the Black Lagoon, derivative and dated compared to his more edgy predecessor.

The story takes far too many short cuts, like the psychic visions inexplicably given to a heretofore unpsychic cheerleader that coincidentally just happen to explain the story holes big enough to drive a school bus through.

And speaking of school buses, could we get any more cliche, or more contrived? Creeper showed us a creature who moved in a finite, but varied world, wreaking havoc in delightfully unpredictable ways. Creeper2 compresses everything but a few scenes into a broken down school bus to artificially heighten a story that better writers would have found better ways to drive.

In the end, Creeper2 is silly, disappointing, mundane and, more often than not, simply boring.