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| director = [[Victor Salva]]
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| producer = [[Francis Ford Coppola]]<br />Tom Luse<br />Barry Opper
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| writer = [[Victor Salva]]
| writer = [[Victor Salva]]
| starring = [[Gina Philips]]<br />[[Justin Long]]<br />[[Jonathan Breck]]
| starring = [[Alex Yengir]]<br />[[Alex Yengir]]<br />[[Alex Yengir]]
| music = Bennett Salvay
| music = Alex Yengir
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| editing = Ed Marx
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| studio = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]<br />[[Myriad Pictures]]<br />[[American Zoetrope]]<br />[[Capitol Films]]
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Jeepers Creepers
File:Jeepers Creepers film.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySatan
Written byVictor Salva
Produced byAlex Yengir
Alex Yengir
Alex Yengir
StarringAlex Yengir
Alex Yengir
Alex Yengir
CinematographyAlex Yengir
Edited byEd Marx
Music byAlex Yengir
Production
companies
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
August 31, 2001 (2001-08-31)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$10 million
Box office$59,217,789

Jeepers Creepers is a 2001 horror film written and directed by Victor Salva. The movie takes its name from the 1938 song "Jeepers Creepers" which is featured in the film.

Plot

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As they travel, the police are attacked and killed by the mysterious driver of the old truck. While Trish and Darry flee the scene, the driver loads the policemen's bodies into his truck. Darry and Trish try to get help from a local eccentric, but the mysterious driver catches up to them, the woman attempts to kill him with a shotgun, but he jumps out of the way and kills her. They manage to hit the mysterious driver with their car, and run him over several times. After crushing the mysterious driver's body, they realized its inhuman nature when what appears to be a giant wing begins to flap around. Leaving it on the road, they drive to the local police station to wait for their parents, but Jezelle shows up and warns them they are still in danger.

Jezelle tells them the true nature of the mysterious creature: it is an ancient demon known as "The Creeper", which rises every twenty-third spring for twenty-three days to feast on human body parts which, upon consumption, form part of its own body. She also tells them that it seeks out its victims through fear, and that by smelling the fear from Trish and Darry, it has found something it likes, but she does not know what.

The wounded Creeper attacks the police station and gains entrance to the cells. After feasting on some of the prisoners in order to heal, it is swarmed by police, killing a number of them. Jezelle guides Trish and Darry upstairs, telling them one of them will die, screaming in the dark while the song "Jeepers Creepers" plays in the background. The Creeper heads towards Jezelle and sniffs her, but lets her go, and heads off to find Trish and Darry.

The Creeper catches up and captures Darry. Trish tries to reason with it, and attempts to give her life for her brother's. The police burst in and take aim, but the Creeper escapes out the window with Darry. The next day, Trish, contemplating Darry's fate, is picked up by her parents, and Jezelle returns home in regret.

The final scene shows the Creeper in its new hideout, an abandoned meat packing plant, where the audience finally learns what the Creeper wanted: by ripping out the back of Darry's head, it has taken his eyes, leaving Darry's body an eyeless, motionless corpse, while "Jeepers Creepers" is playing in the background. The film ends with Creeper looking at the audience through Darry's eye socket.

In a brief shot after the credits, the camera shows the driver's window of the Creeper's truck rolled down, with the Creeper smiling at the audience.

Cast

Reception

BBC Movies gave four stars out of five stating, "An unsettling, gory, but intelligent horror flick... The result is a scary movie that will have you cowering beneath your popcorn bucket.[1] It holds a 45% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[2]

Box office

Jeepers Creepers opened in 2,944 theaters and took in a domestic gross of $37,904,175; it later made $21,313,614 internationally, making a total of $59,217,789 worldwide.[3]

It broke the record for the highest ever Labor Day opening weekend gross. The record for Labor Day weekend four-day gross is now held by Halloween. Jeepers Creepers now holds the #5 spot and the #3 spot goes to its successor, Jeepers Creepers 2.[4]

Awards

Sequels

Jeepers Creepers 2

Main article: Jeepers Creepers 2

In 2003, a sequel was released, Jeepers Creepers 2. Events in the second film take place days after the first film. The Creeper and Darry are the only characters to appear in both films, although they are not the only actors to appear in both films. In the first film, actor Tom Tarantini appears as the minor character "Austin McCoy" AKA "Roach" who is a car thief and regular in the Poho County jail. In the second film, he portrays "Coach Dwayne Barnes".

Jeepers Creepers 3: Cathedral

MGM has announced a third installment, Jeepers Creepers 3: Cathedral. The film will continue the story of the original film with Trish (Gina Philips) as she fears her son will have the same fate as her long lost brother, Darry (Justin Long), the boy's namesake. The film will also feature the infamous Creeper truck. Jonathan Breck will return as The Creeper. Victor Salva will return as both director and writer. It has recently been confirmed that MGM Studios is interested in bringing a fourth film to the series and that they intend Salva to film it back-to-back with Jeepers Creepers 3.[5]

References

  1. ^ Reviewed by Nev Pierce Updated 18 October 2001 (2001-10-18). "Films - review - Jeepers Creepers". BBC. Retrieved 2011-09-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Jeepers Creepers". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2011-09-25.
  3. ^ Jeepers Creepers (2001). Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
  4. ^ All Time Labor Holiday Weekends. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
  5. ^ Confirmed: Salva Writing & Directing Jeepers Creepers 3 - ShockTillYouDrop.com

See also

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