Jeepers Creepers II is a 2003 horror film directed and written by Victor Salva. The movie is a sequel to the earlier film, Jeepers Creepers.
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| Directed by | Victor Salva |
| Written by | Victor Salva |
| Produced by | Francis Ford Coppola Kirk D'Amico Lucas Foster Bobby Rock |
| Starring | Ray Wise Jonathan Breck Garikayi Mutambirwa |
| Cinematography | Don E. FauntLeRoy |
| Edited by | Ed Marx |
| Music by | Bennett Salvay |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release dates | August 29, 2003 |
Running time | 106 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ~$17,000,000 |
Tagline: He can taste your fear.
Plot
Template:Spoiler Returning home from a Championship game, a group of high school basketball players, their coaches and cheerleaders become stranded on the infamous East 9 Highway. The trapped students and their coaches soon discover that is the cunning Creeper that has actually crippled their bus. This monster is a flesh-eating ancient beast that resurfaces on the earth every 23 years to feed, and is hellbent on stockpiling as many victims as it can on the ultimate night of its grisly, ritual feast. As its 23 horrifying days of flesh-eating come to an end, the Creeper has embarked on its final voracious feeding frenzy in Poho County. As night falls, the terrified group of young athletes must fight their own fears and prejudice and come together in a seemingly hopeless struggle against the winged nightmare. Since the Creeper is selective of who it hunts, paranoia soon rises amongst the teens. Meanwhile, a farmer and his son (who appeared at the start of the movie) set out on a personal mission to hunt the Creeper down and avenge its murder of the farmer's younger son. However, it becomes evident that the creature is much stronger than they ever imagined; when it is decapitated, it takes a student's head and uses it as a replacement. Later, in the movie's climax, the father and son battle the creeper with a homemade harpoon gun. While they are unsuccessful in destroying the beast, they do manage to fight it off long enough to end the twenty-three days of feasting. 22 years later the farmer has the homemade harpoon loaded and facing the wall of the house teenagers come and ask what he is waiting for. The man simply responded "waiting, give or take a day". The teens look up finding the creeper hanging up the wall nailed there in a cruxifiction style.
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
- Drew Tyler Bell - Jonny Young
- Luke Edwards - Jack Taggart, Jr.
- Shaun Fleming - Billy Taggart
- Justin Long - Darry Jenner
Reception
Box office
Jeepers Creepers opened in 3,124 theaters and had a US domestic gross of US$ 35,667,218. Other international takings were $27,435,448. Which makes the worldwide gross $63,102,666.[1]
Critics
Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 40% rating with an average rating of 4.9 out of 10. They state: "Jeepers Creepers has a promising start. Unfortunately, the tension and suspense quickly deflates into genre cliches as movie goes on."[1]
Awards
- Nominated: Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Saturn Award Best Horror Film
- Nominated: Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA - Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing in a Feature Film, David Bondelevitch (music editor) and Victor Salva (music editor)
Trivia
- The gimmick of the tune "Jeepers Creepers" playing whenever the Creeper was near is completely dropped in this film. Fans criticized this as "dumbing down" the movie into a more generic horror film.
- Gina Philips turned down the chance to reprise her role from the first movie, but Justin Long has a cameo.
- 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.
- Meat Loaf was originally considered to play the bus driver.
- Victor Salva wrote the whole "Every 23 years for 23 days it gets to eat" rule in the first movie so there would be no sequel unless the movie was set in the future, and knew the studio wouldn't want that. However Francis Ford Coppola found an easy loophole in the rule for the sequel: set it during the same 23 days as the first movie. So this film is set on the 23rd day for the purpose of not making another sequel.
- Error: The Creeper is supposed to hunt every spring. In the opening scenes, the cornfields all show full stalks of corn. Cornstalks are not that full until late summer or fall. In the spring, they are just being planted.
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