Jeepers Creepers 2
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| Directed by | Victor Salva |
| Written by | Victor Salva |
| Produced by | Francis Ford Coppola Kirk D'Amico Lucas Foster Bobby Rock |
| Starring | Ray Wise Jonathan Breck Garikayi Mutambirwa Nicki Lynn Aycox Al Santos |
| Cinematography | Don E. FauntLeRoy |
| Edited by | Ed Marx |
| Music by | Bennett Salvay |
| Distributed by | United Artists Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date | August 29 2003 #1 at US Box Office for two weeks |
Running time | 106 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ~$17,000,000 |
| Box office | $235,102,666 (worldwide, all sales) |
Jeepers Creepers II is a 2003 horror film directed and written by Victor Salva. The movie is a sequel to the earlier film, Jeepers Creepers. Holds the title of highest grossing movie ever released Labor Day Weekend.
Tagline: He can taste your fear.
Plot
Returning home from a Championship game, a group of high school Basketball players, their coaches and cheerleaders become stranded on the infamous East 9 Highway in Kissel County. The trapped students and their coaches soon discover that it is the cunning Creeper that has actually crippled their bus. This monster is a flesh-eating ancient beast that resurfaces on the earth every 23 years to feed, and is hellbent on stockpiling as many victims as it can on the ultimate night of its grisly, ritual feast. As its 23 horrifying days of flesh-eating come to an end, the Creeper has embarked on its final voracious feeding frenzy in Poho County. As night falls, the terrified group of young athletes must fight their own fears and prejudice and come together in a seemingly hopeless struggle against the winged nightmare. Since the Creeper is selective of who it hunts, paranoia soon rises amongst the teens. Meanwhile, a farmer and his son (who appeared at the start of the movie) set out on a personal mission to hunt the Creeper down and avenge its murder of the farmer's younger son. However, it becomes evident that the creature is much stronger than they ever imagined; when it is decapitated, it eats a student's head and regenerates it's own. Later, in the movie's climax, the father and son battle the creeper with a homemade harpoon gun. The creeper gets away, and chases a smaller group of teens, who try to get away in an exterminator's truck. While they are unsuccessful in destroying the beast, the teens do manage to fight it off long enough to end the twenty-three days of feasting. The scene cuts to 23 years later; the farmer has the harpoon gun loaded and facing the wall of the garage. Teenagers come and ask what he is waiting for and the man simply responds "about three more days, give or take a day or two". The teens look up to find the Creeper crucified to the wall as a tourist attraction.
Cast
- Ray Wise - Jack Taggart, Sr.
- Jonathan Breck - The Creeper
- Garikayi Mutambirwa - Deaundre 'Double D' Davis
- Eric Nenninger - Scott 'Scotty' Braddock
- Nicki Lynn Aycox - Minxie Hayes
- Marieh Delfino - Rhonda Truitt
- Diane Delano - Bus Driver Betty Borman
- Thom Gossom Jr. - Coach Charlie Hanna
- Billy Aaron Brown - Andy 'Bucky' Buck
- Lena Cardwell - Chelsea Farmer
- Al Santos - Dante Belasco
- Travis Schiffner - Izzy Bohen
- Kasan Butcher - Kimball 'Big K' Ward
- Josh Hammond - Jake Spencer
- Tom Tarantini - Coach Dwayne Barnes
- Drew Tyler Bell - Jonny Young
- Luke Edwards - Jack Taggart, Jr.
- Shaun Fleming - Billy Taggart
- Justin Long - Darry Jenner
- Marshall Cook - Boy
Reception
Box office
Jeepers Creepers opened in 3,124 theaters and had a U.S. domestic gross of US$ 35,667,218. Other international takings were $27,435,448, the worldwide gross being $63,102,666.[1]
Critics
- Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 22% rating with an average rating of 4.1 out of 10. They state: "Jeepers Creepers 2 is competently made, but it doesn't have the scares of the original."[2]
Awards
- Nominated: Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Saturn Award Best Horror Film
- Nominated: Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA - Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing in a Feature Film, David Bondelevitch (music editor) and Victor Salva (music editor)
Sequel
According to Moviehole, a third film is in the works, to be written and directed by Victor Salva. It could possibly be released Direct-to-DVD. [3]
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