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Jeepers Creepers

Movie: A

Sound: A

Picture: A

Reviewed By: David

MGM and Director Victor Salva team up to bring you "Jeepers Creepers".

Filled with heart stopping jolts, mind bending twists and nonstop suspense, this fast-paced thriller pits two unsuspecting teens against an open road killer with more on his mind than just road rage!

Set on the rural highways and dirt byways of anywhere America during a long and hot summer, Victor Salva's Jeepers Creepers is a film of two distinct halves the first astonishingly good and the second derivative drawn together by a finale that is both fair and surprising.

Trish (Gina Phillips) and Darry (Justin Long) are both college age siblings taking the scenic route home. Their relationship is based on the kind of acerbic bickering born of a childhood of rules and their bored and irritable nattering feels natural and comfortable. When an unexpected revelation about one of Trish's secret hurts surfaces through a subtle misunderstanding, "Jeepers Creepers" creates a level of suture with its two characters that is as expert as any in a mainstream film thus far this year. Invested in their plight and sold on their relationship when they're run off the road suddenly by a roaring spitting heap of a souped up old truck, the shift in atmosphere is terrifying and appalling. When Trish and Darry later see that same truck parked by a dilapidated church and a dark figure dumping corpse sized bundles down a nearby sewer pipe it only stands to reason that they'll return later to check it out. Right?

Victor Salva is a much better director than he is a writer. Salva's smooth camera work accentuates the ominous atmosphere, giving the movie an appropriately creepy tone. But Salva falls into nearly every cliche of the rural horror sub genre black crows, old ladies with shotguns and medieval torture devices.

"Jeepers Creepers" knows how to scare you. With loud noises,
conveniently placed critters and a strange absence of light fixtures, manifest terror lurks around every corner. Hold on whenever the noises stop as for there is sure to be a scare waiting around the next corner.

Furthermore, the film pretty much delivers on what it promises lots of scares and a good dose of gross horror. I liked "Jeepers Creepers", in a teenage slasher way. Though I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone over the age of thirty or so, unless they are looking for a film that is about running for your life from a very hungry creature. But, if they are this one will surely work for them.

This film is rated R for terror violence, gore, language, and brief nudity.

Oh yeah I almost forgot, the final shot of this film is one that I will remember for a long time.

I would recommend this movie to mostly the"under thirty" group but anyone could enjoy it. Click here to purchase this movie from our DVD store.

 

Edition Details:

• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
• Hidden Menu Features
• Director's Audio Commentary
• "Behind-The-Peepers" - A Collection of 6 Featurettes Chronicling the Making of the Film
• Deleted & Extended Scenes Including Alternate Opening & Ending Scenes

 

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