Rating: Summary: A decent movie but made me disappointed. Review: I have never seen the first one, but after hearing that this was a really freaky movie and it will make you jump out of your seats, I was willing to pick it up considering very few movies will scare people nowadays. To be honest, I was disappointed. The movie is not scary at all. It's strange, but not scary. In fact, the movie is actually silly. Some of the parts are so outrageous that it makes raise one eyebrow. I dunno how this movie was dubbed as a great scary movie, instead, it was a great silly movie. I admit I did enjoy the film to a certain extent; but the absence of real horror was not there not one bit. The only scary part throughout the movie is the beginning scene. After that, it's all downhill.
Rating: Summary: The plot continues. Review: This time the winged flesh-eating creature preys upon a broken down bus full of high-school kids. Still would like to know just what this thing is that comes around for 23 days every 23 years. Curious tale.... There is nothing more anxiety-ridden than being trapped in a small space in the middle of nowhere with a huge ugly monster trying to make a meal out of you!
Rating: Summary: Winged Scarecrow of Doom Review: Wow. Here's something a little different. Every 23 SPrings this thing comes alive and eats for a day. What does it eat? Oh the usual, kids, teenagers, and adults. It starts off with a farm kid getting snatched from the corn field leaving behind his older brother and father who can't belive wht they witnessed.The main story revolves around a high school basketball team on a bus. The Creeper has homemade throwing stars (made from human parts of course) to flatten the tires. He then snatches them up one by one for feeding time. The kids try their best to defeat him with a javelin and a flaregun. But the farmer returns with a homemade, gas powered harpoon. After some fighting and struggling he thinks he defeats the Creeper, but he's only sleeping. We exit 23 years later with the farmer ready to face him again. The Creeper hangs from his barn ceiling and you can see it for "Five bucks a gander." Not the greatest horror movie of all time, but better than average.
Rating: Summary: Stand aside Freddy Kruger,beat it Jason, the Creeper is here Review: Let's face it people, this is horror not Shakespeare. I thought this movie was scary and I love the Creeper. In this sequel he has gained a personality and a slightly slimier look. Although I do commend a previous reviewer for somehow gaining the knowledge that Salva is a convicted child molester, this same reviewer obviously does NOT know the cost of creating special effects,which are magnificent in this movie. You didn't think the Creeper could really fly did you?
Rating: Summary: Better than the first Review: This movie was better than I expected. It contained real suspense and horror without gore. I recommend it.
Rating: Summary: Slightly better then the first ... Review: Take that for whatever it's worth though, because I HATED the first one. Just to back track, I felt that the first movie had about a dozen plot holes that were never quite filled. For example, in the original, there was the "sorta psychic" who knew something was going to happen, but not what it was. Why did the Creeper drive around in that truck if it could fly? What was with that woman who had all of those cats? Were they supposed to ward off the Creeper? Why did the Creeper stitch all the corpses back together? Why would anyone live on East 9 if every 23 years there's a horrible mass murder? Wouldn't, eventually, everyone get the idea and move? The sequel doesn't answer any of these, but did succeed in not backing itself into any questions it isn't going to answer either. However, it accomplished this by foregoing the plot and story entirely. Seems it only got in the way. In this movie, the Creeper attacks a bus ... the end. Cool huh? Boy I'm sure glad that there's none of that stupid "character development" thing to get in the way. Also, what did this movie cost to make? Considering that the set design was limited to about 5 cars from the 40's, the inside of a bus, and someone's backyard, it must have taken all of about fifty dollars to produce this thing. What did Salva (who, by the way, is a convicted child-molester) spend all of his money on? Catering? Hopefully this will put this on hiatus until the next 23rd spring ...
Rating: Summary: Loved it! Much better than the first one. Review: The first JC, they made the "thing" much too "mysterious" and unbelieveable....I really, really enjoyed the sequel much more because they showed him up close and scarier, too.
Rating: Summary: Who can really say that this is a good sequel? Review: Apparently the reason why the Creeper only appears once every 23 years came about primarily because the film makers didn't want their idea to be one of those things that runs and runs forever until you end up with Creeper vs Pinhead. I understood that with Jeepers Creepers, because probably the single greatest device that drives the success of the first film as a modern horror classic is the whole eeriness surrounding the Creeper. What is it? What does it want? Why is it here? We come to JC2 knowing all of that, so whatever edge the film makers had over their audience in the original to use as an effective way of shocking, surprising and entertaining us - is now totally out of the window. They could have gone two routes with a sequel - 1. take our expectations and throw them off at entirely new tangents to have us jumping in the aisles, or 2. take our expectations and barely meet them with an hour and a half of the most predictable and uninspired rubbish. Sadly what we've got is sequel B. So what's it all about? Well, when writing the drafts Salva came up with a scene (and that's SCENE folks) where a bus full of basketball players and cheerleaders breaks down and gets attacked by the winged demon. Somehow, (and that is how lazy and lacklustre this film is) this one scene became extended by an hour and twenty minutes to become the ENTIRE film. Yep, the whole film is about a bus being attacked by a demon. It really has very little going for it at all. Every cliche in the book is in there, there's nothing new, inventive, surprising, creepy, or entertaining about the whole thing. Demon swoops on bus and gets someone. Has it gone? Yep so let's go outside. Oh no, demon is back! Let's go inside... We can't get in! Let's run! Demon's still attacking us, so let's run back! Demon swoops on group and carries someone off... etc etc... It's so dire I could scarely believe that it was written and directed by the same guy who did the first one. I couldn't help but feel when watching Salva talking about making the sequel that this is a man making excuses for succumbing to the lure of the big dollar, rather than the same Salva who talks about his passion for moster movies in the first. Absolute cop out film. Make sure you watch the first one - and avoid this.
Rating: Summary: Scary but played out Review: I thought that the first one was a little better than the second one.Because in the first Jepper creppers they had more mistary in the monster like for EX:why does he eat only sertent parts of a human or like where did he come from and one more thing is how long has he be living.
Rating: Summary: Jeepers Creepers 2 vs. Freddy vs.Jason Review: Although Jeepers Creepers 2 is slightly inferior to the original as far as storyline is concerned, it is imbued with a terrific sense of atmosphere and dread. A testimony to the fact that, as a film maker, Victor Salva KNOWS what he is doing. He has yet again crafted an excellent and chilling urban legend set in backwater America, utilizing shock value and some pretty good visual effects to great advantage. To the people who say that director Ronny Yu's Freddy vs. Jason was better than this film I say two words...TASTE RE-EVALUATION! Freddy vs. Jason was, quite frankly, the product of a self indulgent hack who wouldn't know horror if it came up and stabbed him in his oriental ass. After gracing our screens for more than 20 years collectively, I think it's safe to say that Freddy and Jason's time is OVER. Let's have something new. Let's make way for the Creeper.
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