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Summary: Awful, Awful
Review: Waste of time and money. Not scary. By the end we were hoping for both of the protagonist to die a painful and grusome death.
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Summary: Less science fiction please.
Review: Jeepers Creepers was not the best or most innovative horror film I have ever seen, but it certainly was entertaining. The Beginning, I feel, is the best part of the movie. The Truck coming from behind the car with the horn blaring is simply bone chilling, just sounds completely scary, and is when you least expect it. Also the second best part of the movie is the ending. The ending is not your standard ending for a movie, but I feel that this is really a good ending for a horror movie especially. I think the acting in the movie is great too and it's definitely nice to see some new faces in movies. Also some of the tricks that the Creeper does to hide his evidence is clever too instead of the usual nobody sees anything and every thinks the main characters are crazy routine. The plot also keeps you guessing. Some people see this as a major downfall and the director's lack of explanation, but I think this is a great way to keep people interested and thinking. There are some parts in the movie that do have a point and people over look them such as all the crows. Maybe the crows are how the Creeper acquired his power of flight since everything he eats becomes him.
In addition to all of this though the movie does have its downfalls in my perspective. First off, I think it would have been more scary and interesting if instead of a demon the Creeper was human and there was a more complex idea behind eating people's select body parts. Like for instance if he was collecting them for an experiment to resurrect his dead lover or something like that and he only took the best of everything. Also even though the plot keeps you guessing it could be a tad bit more established in some parts. Like how the Creeper was created or why he was created and why the old woman sees only information about the Creeper and his victims and nothing else. Is she connected?
I think the movie relied a lot on science fiction when it could have easily been converted into a scarier non-fiction story. I think things are scarier when they seem more real and there are things left uncovered. So in the end I rated Jeepers Creepers a 3 out of five stars because of the sci-fi connecting, not that I do not like sci-fi, but I think this movie could have done better with less of it. And if I say nothing else about it the ending is great and horrific.
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Summary: stop complaining
Review: This was a way better movie than people are saying. I'm only 19 and i loved it. It was a very smart horror movie that kills the slasher movies. The movie is fast paced with lots of cool scenes and is one you really should go see.
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Summary: stop complaining
Review: This was a way better movie than people are saying. I'm only 19 and i loved it. It was a very smart horror movie that kills the slasher movies. Lots of people are giving reviews just based on the ending. Here is a hint if you do not know how to review a movie then don't. The movie is fast paced with lots of cool scenes and is one you really should go see.
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Summary: A great 30 minutes, and then . . .
Review: The first 30 to 45 minutes of this film were outstanding (as horror films go). I was thrilled, thinking that for the first time in quite a while that I was going to be treated to a truly scary flick, with a fresh, new twist. The sounds, the sights, just the whole setting had a frightening tone.Then we see the villian -- I mean really see the villian, and what he's capable of -- fright over. Then it just becomes schlock. Fine performances. Great sounds and settings. Horrible twist on what or who the killer is. Felt misled by the trailer and by the movie posters. Save some cash -- see this as a matinee only, or wait for the video . . . or just get up and leave during the scene of the police escort.
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Summary: Wait for cable
Review: I went and saw this movie based on recommendations from other people that raved about it. What a complete waste of money. Yes, the two main characters were great, but the predictability of this movie left me wondering where the so-called writer was going with it. Too many plot holes and it seemed as if they ended it because they ran out of money. Another disappointing horror flick. Wait for cable, cause I don't even think it is worth renting or pay-per-viewing. Another overhyped piece of trash movie! Very disappointing!
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Summary: Good idea, just...poor filming!
Review: There hasn't been a really good horror movie for a long time. Scream is the last one I can think of that was well done. Of course you get all the lousy ones that try to be like it ("I Know What You Did Last Summer," "Valentine," "Final Destination"). Now, "Jeepers Creepers" caught my attention when I saw the trailer/preview. I work at a movie theatre and since mostly teenagers work there, we were all excited to see this horror flick. It looked different from your typical slasher movie, which it is...I'll give it that much. It ended up to be a total bore. It really isn't all that scary and is actually pretty dumb. It even makes fun of itself when the girl says something like, "You know in scary movies when people do really dumb things in a movie and everyone hates them for it. This is it." I mean, the movie wouldn't even be a movie if the brother and sister had just kept driving towards home like they were supposed to. But no, they had to inspect a strange creature. Uh-oh! The acting is not bad though. Wait for this one when it comes out for rental. R rating is pretty darn accurate due to heavy violence, brief nudity, violence, language, and violence. Do not take kids, 16 and over should be fine.
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Summary: Too many loose ends ...
Review: I was wandering around the mall a few days ago with nothing to do, so I figured I'd treat myself to a movie. I was actually looking to see Final Fantasy, but it turns out it was no longer playing. Simply on a whim, as a replacement, I decided to go see 'Jeepers Creepers.' Man what a disappointment.
My first groan came when I learned it was a Victor Salva film. Salva, you may remember, is the convicted child-molester who had made the movie 'Powder.' I swore I'd never pay to see one of his movies and I was kicking myself when I realized my mistake. My second error came relative to the plot. Granted this is my own fault, I was told by a friend, the plot of the movie was similar to the Shirley Jackson story of 'The Lottery' where a town is sacrificing people to this demon that lived in a hole under a church.
That half-heard assessment turned out to also only be about half-right. I won't rehash the plot completely, but in this movie, the townspeople are unaware of the demon (in the beginning that is). The plot, to me anyway, never really seemed to come together. It seemed as if there were several points that it tried to make, and then just gave up on. For example, why after the demon took whatever body part he needed, did he stitch all the corpses back up and together? What was the idea behind making a point of the dead interracial couple? I thought it was going to be a murder mystery for a few moments after that. Why did he even have a hole to the old church when he could have just walked down into the basement? What the hell was with the woman with all the cats? What was with all the crows everywhere? Did they work for the Creeper or something? Things like this just seemed to keep piling up to the point that I wasn't really enjoying the movie anymore. It just seemed to be all over the place. I don't know, I was admittedly really never into gore/horror movies very much. This just didn't do anything to change my mind.
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Summary: Don't waste your money.
Review: This movie was entertaining for the first few minutes. It immediately turns into the same sad routine and they put this old song in the movie that has no significance at all. They never established any motive except this big scary guy driving the ultimate redneck mobile from hell has to feed. There was no explanation of where he came from and why he likes that [...] song. Don't waste your money, the only thing I found scary about this movie was the fact that it seemed to be set up for a seq
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Summary: It was really creepy until....
Review: I will keep it short. As a person who has enjoyed good horror and bad horror for almost 40 years, this one was a refreshing change from all the ubiquitous teenage angst movies that ran rampant from the 90's. But this movie broke two of the most important laws of good horror movie making.
1) do NOT, under any circumstances, show your monster too soon.
and 2) never, ever, go for the cheap and done before SFX.
In the first situation, they had a really good thing going up until the scene with the cat lady. The terror was truly frightening, and the wall of bodies far better than even Hellraiser. But they revealed his whole identity too soon. What made the classic and genre setting movie "ALIEN" great was the fact that you did not see the entire creature until the movie was just about over. The kept the terror going until to prevent coronaries, they finally let you have it.
Now the SFX (speciall effects). While the whole demon angle was a welcome change, and the wings a nice touch, they lost me totally with that same overused terribly boring and not at all scary "ghoul face". No matter what addons they used, this mold has been done to death from everything from Creepshow, Legend, Buffy, Lost Boys, oh the bloody list goes on. Important SFX tip:
Retire this mold. If they wanted to convey a demon. Pick up some medieval books. Do the homework. The face could have been more frightening, like the little known but equally scary movie "The Incubus" (no, not the Shatner one). They portrayed a very unique Incubus. Small head, simian probocsis and jaw, small yellow sharp teeth, small pointed ears, and ghoulish green/grey skin. It was very new, never done before, and for a sexual demon, on the money. Another was the good makeup for the toungue in cheek movie "The Unnameable". There are thousands of amateur SFX people all over America who make extremely frightning faces just for their local "Fright Fest". It's time to start throwing away the old molds and start canvassing the new talent.
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