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· Year: 2003
· Also known as: Like a Bat Out of Hell: Jeepers Creepers 2
· Director: Victor Salva
· Writer: Victor Salva
· Cast: Ray Wise, Jonathan Breck
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Part of the Jeepers Creepers series.
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As his twenty-three day feeding frenzy draws to a close, no one is safe from the Creeper's reign of terror--especially not a stranded busload of kids on their way home from the state basketball championship.
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RATING
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57
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| 2.5 -ATMOSPHERE |
| 2.75 -GORE |
| 1.75 -HUMOR |
| 1.75 -SCARES |
| 2.0 -TENSION |
I was impressed by the first Jeepers Creepers. What was mismarketed in television commercials as another post-Scream teen horror flick was in actuality an updated monster movie shot through with nerve and humor. The second film is in many ways an amplification of the first; more kids, more violence, more extravagance. As a result, it's also less personal, less tense and less intimate.
Jeepers Creepers 2 is an action horror movie, and writer/director Victor Salva knows the rules of that class of film perhaps too well: keep moving, kill off as many minor characters as possible, and characterizations be damned. Salva does better with his screenplay than one might initially think, given the material, supplying enough adrenaline to keep the plot shooting by and enough stupid kids to keep the audience involved (and probably shouting at the screen). But it just seems as though his heart wasn't as much in this one.
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