Genre: Thriller, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Teenage, On The Road, Suspense, Serial Killer, Monsters, Disturbing, Police, School / Campus, Gore, Demon, Psychos, Fantasy, Psychic
Tagline: WhAT's EATing you?
Plot: Driving home for spring break on a deserted country road, Trish (Gina Philips) and her younger brother Darry (Justin Long) pass the hours as they always do — bickering, insulting each other, and enjoying every minute. Then they remember the spooky tale of a teenage couple from their old high school who disappeared twenty years earlier along the same stretch of road. As the story goes, they found her body but they never found him — or her head...Later, driving past an old church, they see a dark, cloaked figure dropping something down a drainage pipe — something shaped like a body and wrapped in what looks like a bloodstained sheet. The cloaked figure sees them and immediately gives chase in a horrific van, but it disappears after running them off the road. Momentarily safe, Darry insists they go back to see if someone needs help, and they return despite Trish's protests. Darry squirms partway into the pipe while Trish holds his legs, but he slips from her grasp and plummets down into the darkness. When he lands, he sees that someone is down there: a boy, barely alive, with a horrifying, jagged-stitched incision stretching from his navel to his neck. Too injured to be saved, the boy dies and Darry desperately starts looking for a way out. To his
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 I spent my time in the chair second-guessing everything on screen. There are so many talented people in this world that aren't given a voice, something seems wrong about giving one to Victor Salva.  --B. Alan Orange (MovieWeb)
An unsettling, gory, but intelligent horror flick, "Jeepers Creepers" is the best picture of its kind since "Scream". It blends the postmodern sensibility of Wes Craven's slasher satire and the rawness of Tobe Hooper's "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" to fearsome effect. The result is a scary movie that will have you cowering beneath your popcorn bucket.  --Nev Pierce (BBC Films)
Deserves full marks for the tension, and part marks for not foisting a goofy ending on us, but in between, it fails miserably to hit us with the horror sledgehammer. 61/100--Brian Webster (Apollo Guide)
A genuinely creepy and frightening first act, which then promptly deteriorates into ridiculousness, meaning that you start out scared and end up just plain annoyed.  --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
The performances are solid, the cinematography is fine, and the direction is wonderful. The set pieces all look meticulously constructed and the effects are top-notch. The score is chilling and the soundtrack fits nicely. ... "Jeepers Creepers" is good fun for horror fans who want something different in their diet and are sick of all the "Scream" clones the theatrical market is flooded with.--Ted Geoghegan (Diabolical-Dominion.com)
Salva flubs-up majorly here coming up with an insect/slasher demon only to surround it with a piss-poor and senseless script. ... A dead void of a movie and possibly the first time in years I've been to a theatre and felt totally ripped-off. The worst big-studio horror film of 2001 - bar none.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
Unfortunately, the last third loses some of the momentum when the movie degenerates into a standard monster movie with a monster that looks a little bit too much like the Wishmaster. Granted, it's still a good movie during its last half hour -- just not a great one.-- (eSplatter.com)
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| Cast |
Gina Philips
Dead & Breakfast, Bella Mafia, The Anarchist Cookbook |
 | Justin Long
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Galaxy Quest, Crossroads |
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 | Victor Salva
Rites of Passage, Lights, Camera, Creeper: Making 'Jeepers Creepers 2', A Day in Hell: On the Set of 'Jeepers Creepers II' |
 | | Eileen Brennan
The Sting, Clue, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous | | |
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