Other Titles • Jeepers Creepers (2001) • Here Comes the Boogeyman
Synopses for Jeepers Creepers (2001)
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A brother and sister on spring break from college decide to take the scenic route home--an endless, desolate stretch of road through central Florida. Along the way they are run off the road by a strange truck, and later they see its driver disposing of what looks like a human body down a drainpipe near an old church. Derry (Justin Long) convinces his older sister, Trish (Gina Phillips), that they have to investigate, and despite all better judgement, they do. That's just the beginning of this wild horror film, directed by Victor Salva (POWDER). Salva keeps the audience guessing by never settling into any particular style or formula. The film veers gleefully in all directions, referencing such classics as NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, and even THE TERMINATOR, along the body-strewn way. There is no shortage of clever humor amid the shocks, gross-outs, and nail-biting suspense, and Phillips and Long exhibit a refreshingly believable brother-sister rapport. The supporting cast includes Patricia Belcher as a psychic and Eileen Brennan as an eccentric cat owner. Francis Ford Coppola is the executive producer.
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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 horror, though, he discovers more than an exit — there are countless mutilated bodies all over the place, stitched together onto the walls and ceiling in a gruesome tapestry. When he finally finds a door and rejoins Trish, they hop back in the car and speed towards the nearest town to seek help. Unfortunately, the dark figure — the Creeper — is now hot on their heels. And he knows who they are.
Thus begins a terrifying pursuit that leads Trish and Darry from a spooky all-night diner to an old woman's (Eileen Brennan) lonely farmhouse full of cats to the ultimate showdown at a backwoods police station. As the chase quickens, Trish and Darry come to the sickening realization that the Creeper wants — needs something from one of them. But from which one.. .and what?
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"This is the most scary, stylish horror movie I've seen in years." - Clive Barker
You can keep your doors locked. You can keep your eyes closed. But still, he'll get what he wants… and what he wants is… you. Brace yourself for "90 minutes of steadily mounting horror [that] delivers more than its share of honest chills" (The Baltimore Sun). From "the scariest opening sequence of any horror picture in recent memory" (Los Angeles Times) to "one of the gutsiest endings to a film this year" (Dallas Morning News), Jeepers Creepers is the real deal in terror!
One a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens (Gina Philips, Living Out Loud and Justin Long, TV's "Ed") are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck… and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe. But when they stop to investigate, they discover that the grisly reality at the bottom of that pipe is far worse than they could have ever suspected… and that they are now the targets of an evil far more unspeakable - and unstoppable - than they could have ever imagined!
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With confident style and low-budget ingenuity, Jeepers Creepers gets under your skin, provoking spine-tingling horror when college siblings Trish (Gina Philips) and Darry (Justin Long) encounter a flesh-eating demon along a barren rural highway. After a harrowing car chase that sets the movies nerve-wracking tone, they investigate suspicious activity near an abandoned church, where a corrugated pipe leads to unimaginable horrors. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game against the regenerating demon, which feeds on fear--and selected body parts--according to a psychic (Patricia Belcher) who adds chilling portent to the routine climax in a besieged police station. Writer-director Victor Salva (Powder) emphasises primal fear over logic, but plot holes are easily forgiven when you're scared out of your socks. A surprise box-office hit in late summer 2001, Jeepers Creepers will please even jaded horror fans with its back-to-basics frights. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
On the DVD:Jeepers Creepers on disc shows off the dark tones and menacing shadows of this urban horror road movie to great oppressive effect in this anamorphically enhanced 1.85:1 widescreen special edition. The schlock-horror soundtrack is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 and although the film predominantly relies on back-to-basics shock tactics, the audio track handles the balance of subtle dialogue and dramatic crescendos well. The DVD is also packed full of cultish extras. There are six featurettes, which add up to about an hour of documentary footage bringing together all the aspects of the production process from audition tapes, artwork, behind the scenes stuff and even a documentary on the film's two other "stars" the twins' 1960s Impala car, and the creeper's van. There is also a healthy spattering of deleted scenes an audio commentary by writer/director Victor Salva, trailers and a photo gallery. --Kristen Bowditch END
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