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Jeepers Creepers 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed byVictor Salva
Written byVictor Salva
Produced byFrancis Ford Coppola
StarringRay Wise
and Jonathan Breck
CinematographyDon E. FauntLeRoy
Edited byEd Marx
Music byBennett Salvay
Production
companies
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
August 29, 2003 (2003-08-29)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$17 million
Box office$63,102,666

Jeepers Creepers 2 is a 2003 American horror film written and directed by Victor Salva, produced by American Zoetrope, Capitol Films, Myriad Pictures and distributed by United Artists, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer division. The film is a sequel to the 2001 horror film Jeepers Creepers.

Plot

The film begins with text explaining the premise of the first film—that every 23 years, the creeper is able to eat for 23 days.

Three days after the events of the first film (captioned as "Day 22"), Billy Taggart (Shaun Fleming) is assisting on his father,'s farm by erecting scarecrows. He notices that one of the scarecrows has clawed feet, and runs away. Calling for help, Billy runs through the corn field before being grabbed by the scarecrow. As his father (Jack Taggart Sr., Ray Wise) get closer, the scarecrow leaps into the air with Billy, and flies off into the sunset.

The following day ("Day 23"), a school bus carrying a high school basketball team and cheerleaders back from their recent state championship win suffers a blowout. On closer inspection, the tire has been torn apart by a hand-crafted weapon made of numerous claw-like bone fragments and a tooth. While on the bus, the basketball team and the cheerleaders hear a radio report on the bus about bodies being found in a church that was recently burned down (The Creeper's lair from the first film). Back on Taggart's farm, his older son Jack Taggart Jr. finds a small knife left by the Creeper with a design on the side of it of someone in a field being chased by the flying Creeper with a sunset in the background. Jack Taggart takes a hold of the knife it suddenly flies into a lamp.

As the team and the school staff wait for assistance at the roadside, one member sees something fly through the sky. His teammates dismiss this as a flock of birds and laugh at him.

With the bus back on the road, the students become emotionally strained. One girl, Minxie (Nicki Aycox), has a vision of Darry Jenner (Justin Long)—the victim from the first film—as well as the events surrounding Billy Taggart. She then sees how the Creeper blew the tire; this coincides with another tire being torn by the same method as earlier. The sports coach flags down a passing car, whose occupants say they will notify the authorities further along on their journey. A staff member discovers a similar clawed weapon made of skin and a navel, possibly Darry's because it has the same tattoo he had around his navel. As one of the coaches,Charlie Hanna, is laying flares on the road, the Creeper descends and flies off vertically with him. The bus driver, Betty Borman, becomes worried and says everyone needs to get back on the bus. Once everyone is back on the bus, the Creeper swoops down and flies off with Betty. Coach Dwayne Barnes comes back to the bus and asks one of the team players, named Jake, what he saw and he responds by saying "She flew away."

After having an argument with one of the players, Scotty, Coach Barnes is grabbed by the Creeper. Scotty and his fellow teammates grab their coach, but the Creeper manages to fly off with him. Scotty comes back on the bus, after closing the doors, with his coach's blood on his face. Everyone else quickly closes the windows. Everyone turns to Scotty and asks him what it was that took the coach, and he replies by saying he doesn't know, but it had big wings.

Back at the Taggart farm, Jack listens in on police reports and hears about two abductions. He then calls his son and decides to go out and investigate.

Back on the bus, Scotty debates with the others on whether they should leave the bus or not, but ends up getting into an argument with Double D. The Creeper returns to the bus, and signals which student he will next attack. He looks down at Dante,winks at Jake, smiles at Scotty,smiles at Bucky (possibly Minxie too) then finger pistols him, then finally gives "tongue action" to Double D. After the Creeper leaves Minxie collapses, and has further visions that explain the Creeper to her. She sees Darry again who explains how the Creeper came to eat. When Minxie looks back at Darry, he no longer has his eyes and he says that the Creeper is there to eat them. Minxie relays this information to the group, telling them that its last visit was purely to pick which people to take.

En route to the bus, Jack finds the car from the passers-by that has crashed into a tree. The occupants are missing, with the roof having been peeled off. He radios the students, who are ecstatic that their rescue is imminent. This is short-lived, however, as the Creeper punches through the bus roof and grabs Bucky by the head. One student spears through the head by a javelin; it removes the javelin before flying off vertically then falling onto the bus, smashing all the windows. The students see the lifeless body of the Creeper on the roof. Despite believing it to be dead, it wraps one of its wings around Dante and decapitates him. It then eats the his head before using it as its own. Again, the Creeper flies away. Assuming it is better to leave the bus, the students step onto the road. The Creeper returns, chasing them across the fields. The Creeper throws one of its weapons at Jake and hits him in the head with it, killing him. The Creeper throws a knife and pins Scotty to a tree. Scotty gives his final words to his friends and tell them he's sorry. Once his friends finally free him, the Creeper swoops down and flies off with him.

Bucky and two other students get back to the bus, but the Creeper grabs Bucky by the head again through the roof of the bus. The Creeper soon lets go though as Jack Taggart arrives with Jack Jr. and Minxie who they managed to find along the way. He has equipped his truck with a pneumatic piston that he has adapted into a harpoon-like weapon using one of the Creeper's own blades. Stood face-to-face with the Creeper, he successfully spears it, though it is not killed and removes the harpoon from its torso, throwing it towards the truck and almost impaling Taggart's son in the process and leaving a cut on his nose. Taggart reloads the weapon, and again spears the Creeper. The Creeper destroys Taggart's truck, but the weapon is intact.

Elsewhere in the fields, Double D, Rhonda, and Izzy find a truck they saw earlier, but the driver is missing, assuming he was killed by the Creeper. Izzy and Rhonda get in the truck, but Double D's side of the door wont open. The Creeper flies overhead and the three quickly drive away with Double D in the back of the truck. As the three are driving away, the Creeper flies behind the truck trying to get Double D, but he shoots it with a flare gun. The Creeper flies back for a moment, but continues its chase. Izzy then drives the truck off the road and back onto the fields. He tells Rhonda to get out of the car then pushes her out (It's unknown what happened to her afterwards.) As the Creeper is only inches away from Double D, Izzy suddenly stops the car and the Creeper flies straight through the back windshield and flips the car over. Double D's leg is injured and Izzy manages to drag himself out of the truck (It's unknown what happens to him afterwards.)

As Double D crawls back to the truck, he comes across the Creeper's severed wing. The truck suddenly explodes and the Creeper gets up in front of Double D. The Creeper quickly catches Double D's scent and chases after him, but it has lost one of its legs and one of its arms. Double D begins to crawl away as the Creeper begins hopping after him. The Creeper pins Double D down, but before it can attack him, Jack Taggart, his son and the other students from the bus arrive and Jack shoots it in the head with a harpoon. Taggart then repeatedly stabs it, continuing to do so until it no longer screams or responds to his attacks. As the Creeper appears to be dead, the Creeper opens its eyes and glares at Taggart as its claw-like appendages enclose around its head; Minxie explains that "its time ran out" after the 23 days, not because it is dead as Taggart assumes.

Twenty-three years later, a group of teenagers drive to Taggart's barn. They are greeted by Jack Taggart, Jr. with scar on his nose from his encounter with the Creeper, who points out a sign on the barn that says "BAT OUT OF HELL" and charges $5 to see the creature. Leading them into the barn, the lifeless Creeper is tied to the barn wall. An elderly Taggart, Sr., is sat in an armchair looking at the Creeper, armed with a harpoon and his pneumatic gun. The teenagers ask when he killed it; he replies "about 23 years ago". When asked if he's waiting for something, Taggart looks up at the Creeper and says "about three more days, give or take a day or two."

Cast

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 23% rating with an average score of 4.2 out of 10. They state the film: "is competently made, but it doesn't have the scares of the original."[1]

Box office

Jeepers Creepers 2 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, slightly higher than the original.[2]

Awards

  • Nomination - Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films
  • Nomination - Saturn Award Best Horror Film
  • Nomination - Motion Picture Sound Editors: Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing in a Feature Film (David Bondelevitch and Victor Salva)

Sequel

Salva has expressed interest in returning to the franchise with a third installment and proposed television series.[3] A third film was confirmed in 2009. The film, titled Jeepers Creepers 3: Cathedral, will be released sometime in 2013. The plot of the film is Trish is now the mother of a teenage son, named after her late brother, Darry. She begins having nightmares in which her son meets the same fate as her brother. Now a rich and powerful woman, she teams up with Jack Taggart Sr. and Jr. to find and kill the Creeper for good. The film will also reveal the Creeper's origins. Jonathan Breck, Gina Philips, Ray Wise and Luke Edwards will reprise their respective roles. Other casting includes Brandon Smith as Sgt. David Tubbs, Marieh Delfino as Rhonda Truitt, and Lo Bosworth as Mindy Handle.

References

  1. ^ ROTTEN TOMATOES: Movies – Top Movies, Trailers, Tickets & Showtimes
  2. ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=jeeperscreepers2.htm
  3. ^ Fangoria. "Exclusive: Victor Salva Takes "ROSEWOOD LANE"". fangoria.com. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
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