Jeepers Creepers 2 film review

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JEEPERS CREEPERS 2

The Creeper is back! It's twenty three years later and the winged beast is one day shy of his twenty three day feeding frenzy. We join the feast in the cornfields as the Creeper snatches the youngest son of farmer Taggart (Wise) and flies off into the sunset. The heartbroken farmer and his remaining son set about manufacturing weapons to kill the predator and avenge their son's death.

Meanwhile, out on a deserted highway, a High School basketball team is returning home from a victorious match. Their high spirits are soon dampened when they discover that a punctured tyre is more than just an accident and that the whole bus load are now on menu of an unseen foe.

Sure enough, one by one the victims are picked off with the others seemingly powerless to help their friends. Only the moody Scott (Nenninger) seems to want to put up a fight, but with racial tension and general panic filling the bus, will they be able to fend off the Creeper until Taggart arrives?

Fans of gore will find much to enjoy in Jeepers Creepers 2, though it isn't as scary as the original. The Creeper is a genuine classic horror baddie however and it is when he is on screen, or more accurately when his unseen presence is on screen, that the film works at its best.

There are plenty of jumps and wince-inducing moments to make the popcorn-munching brigade at the local multiplex go home happy, but the true horror fans will be left with an empty feeling in the pit of their stomachs. Not something that can be levelled at the Creeper.

Don't bet on waiting twenty three years before you see this winged monster again.

Paul Hurley