Jeepers Creepers II

Infobox Film
name = Jeepers Creepers II


caption = Theatrical release poster
director = Victor Salva
producer = Francis Ford Coppola
writer = Victor Salva
starring = Ray Wise
Jonathan Breck
Nicki Aycox
Justin Long
music = Bennett Salvay
cinematography = Don E. FauntLeRoy
editing = Ed Marx
distributor = United Artists
American Zoetrope
released = August 29, 2003
runtime = 104 min.
country = flagicon|USA
language = English
preceded_by="Jeepers Creepers"
followed_by="Jeepers Creepers III"
budget = $17 million
gross = $63,102,666
website = http://www.jeeperscreepers2.net/
amg_id = 1:278223
imdb_id = 0301470

"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".

Plot

The film opens with a farmer named Jack Taggart Sr. and his son Jack Jr. talking when the farmer's younger son Billy is captured and killed by a supernatural being known as the Creeper, leaving both Jacks horrified and stunned. Returning home from a Championship game, a group of high school Basketball players, their coaches and cheerleaders become stranded on East 9 Highway in Kassel County when their bus breaks down. The trapped students and their coaches soon discover that it was the Creeper, a monster that that resurfaces on the earth every 23 years to feed, that has crippled the bus. Since the Creeper is selective of who it hunts, paranoia soon rises amongst the teens.

Meanwhile, Jack and his son set out on a personal mission to hunt the Creeper down. However, it becomes evident that the creature is much stronger than they imagined; when it is decapitated, it eats a student's head and regenerates its own.

Later, in the movie's climax, the father and son battle the creeper with a homemade harpoon. The Creeper gets away, and chases a smaller group of teens, who try to get away in an exterminator's truck. The teen driving slams on the brake, which results in the Creeper crashing through the truck and causing it to flip over several times. The Creeper loses its left leg, right arm and wings in the crash. However, the Creeper still pursues one of the teens from the truck. As it's about to eat an injured teen, the farmer shoots a harpoon into the forehead of the Creeper. With the Creeper stuck to the ground because of the harpoon, the farmer proceeds to stab it repeatedly in the chest with another harpoon. Initially the farmer thinks he has killed the Creeper, but as the sun rises, a student (who knows all about the Creeper thanks to a message sent to her mind by the ghost of a previous victim) points out that the 23 days are over and it will be back.

23 years later, kids have heard about the creature the farmer has killed and desire to see it. They pay their $5 to see the "attraction"; named "Bat Out of Hell". The teens look up to find the Creeper crucified to the wall as a tourist attraction. The farmer has the harpoon gun loaded and facing the beast's heart. Teenagers turn and ask what he is waiting for and the man simply responds "about three more days, give or take a day or two".Unicode|{| class="wikitable"
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Cast

*Jonathan Breck as The Creeper
*Ray Wise as Jack Taggart, Sr.
*Luke Edwards as Jack Taggart, Jr.
*Eric Nenninger as Scott Braddock
*Garikayi Mutambirwa as Deaundre "Double D" Davis
*Nicki Aycox as Minixie Hayes
*Travis Schiffner as Izzy Bohen
*Lena Cardwell as Chelsea Farmer
*Billy Aaron Brown as Andy "Bucky" Buck
*Marieh Delfino as Rhonda Truitt
*Diane Delano as Bus Driver Betty
*Thom Gossom, Jr. as Coach Charlie Hanna
*Tom Tarantini as Coach Dewane Barnes
*Al Santos as Dante Belasco
*Josh Hammond as Jake Spencer
*Kasan Butcher as Kimball "Big K" Ward
*Drew Tyler Bell as Jonny Young
*Shaun Fleming as Billy Taggart
*Jon Powell as Older Jack, Jr.
*Justin Long as Darry Jenner

Reception

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. [ [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=jeeperscreepers2.htm http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=jeeperscreepers2.htm] ]

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." [ [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jeepers_creepers/about.php#consensus ROTTEN TOMATOES: Movies – Top Movies, Trailers, Tickets & Showtimes ] ]

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)

equel

According to Moviehole, a third film is in the works, to be written and directed by Victor Salva. [ [http://www.today.com/view/victor-salva-to-direct-‘jeepers-creepers-3′/id-985604/ Victor Salva to direct Jeepers Creepers 3] ] It also states that the film will see release direct-to-video [ There are rumors that it will have a prologue in the Old West. [http://www.moviehole.net/news/20071109_salva_writing_and_directing_je.html Salva writing and directing Jeepers Creepers III] ] The film is scheduled for release in 2009. [ [http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/film/596 Jeepers Creepers 3 Movie Info] at Bloody-Disgusting.com] Recently Victor Salva told Moviehole that the film may actually get a theatrical release, and that the film might bring back characters from the past two films. The film has a tentative title of "Jeepers Creepers 3: Cathedral" [ [http://www.moviehole.net/news/20080228_salva_talks_jeepers_creepers_3.html Salva Talks Jeepers Creepers 3] at Moviehole] According to Rotten Tomatoes, Ray Wise will reprise his role from the second movie. Gina Philips, who played Trish in the original film, will return as well.

The story picks up where Jeepers Creepers II leaves off. A prologue set in the Old West will precede the story, where Trish Jenner , has a teenaged son named Darry, after her brother. She has a recurring dream about her son falling to a fate all too similar to that of his uncle. It is also confirmed that The Creeper will be using his infamous truck. [ [http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=6880] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.jeeperscreepers2.net/ Official site]
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Box Office Leaders USA
before = Freddy vs. Jason
date = August 31
year = 2003
after =