Jeepers Creepers II (2003)

Director:

Victor Salva

Writers (WGA):

Victor Salva (characters)
Victor Salva (written by)

Release Date:

29 August 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

He can taste your fear.

Plot:

Set a few days after the original, a championship basketball team's bus is attacked by The Creeper, the winged, flesh-eating terror, on the last day of his 23-day feeding frenzy.

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Scarecrow | Shot In The Eye | Sequel | Decapitation

Awards:

2 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Tue. May 20	2:00 PM	USA
Wed. May 21	1:00 AM	USA

Cast

Ray Wise	...	Jack Taggart, Sr.
Jonathan Breck	...	The Creeper
Garikayi Mutambirwa	...	Deaundre 'Double D' Davis
Eric Nenninger	...	Scott 'Scotty' Braddock
Nicki 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

Also Known As:

Jeepers Creepers 2 (USA) (trailer title)
Jeepers Creepers 2: The Second Night (USA) (working title)
Like Hell: Jeepers Creepers 2 (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for horror violence and language.

Runtime:

USA:104 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Canada:14A (Alberta/Ontario) | Malaysia:18SG | Sweden:15 | Iceland:16 | Canada:R (Nova Scotia) | Canada:18A (British Columbia/Manitoba) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Finland:K-15 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:14 | Canada:18A | Chile:TE | France:-12 | Germany:16 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 | Philippines:R-13 | Singapore:NC-16 | South Korea:18 | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #39321)

Filming Locations:

Long Beach, California, USA

Company:

American Zoetrope

Trivia:

Meat Loaf was originally considered to play the bus driver.

Goofs:

Continuity: Toward the beginning of the film, when farmer Taggert and his older son are chasing the Creeper as he is dragging away the younger son, the sun is at their backs. When the Creeper flies away with the kid a minute later, they are now facing the sun, it having made a 180 degree change in position.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Taggert: [yelling out to Billy, who's putting up scarecrows] Billy! Get number three up now. Don't come in to eat before you do. And check the other two! Make sure they're wired up good. I don't want them blowing over again the first big wind.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in A Day in Hell: On the Set of 'Jeepers Creepers II' (2003) (V)

Soundtrack:

Jeepers Creepers

Scary follow-up...a winged creature frightens stranded teen-agers on a bus...

Not since the early days of Wes Craven thrillers have we had a really good fright flick to scare us in true Halloween fashion. This one does the trick thanks to some extra good CGI effects and some scary situations in the middle of a deserted countryside where teens find themselves menaced by a winged creature determined to make them his flesh-eating victims.

In the only adult role, RAY WISE does a convincing job of making it all look reasonable enough to swallow--and it owes a lot of its punch to the imaginative tales of authors like Stephen King. There are no standout performances among the various teens, but all of them look incredibly afraid of the winged creature--with good reason. The make-up job here is marvelously chilling.

The story is the stuff dreams are made of--or rather, nightmares. And it's all done with extremely clever build-up of suspense as the teens, one by one, become divisive and challenge each other in ways that only undermine their vulnerability. A few of the scenes are very graphic in depicting the creature's stranglehold on his victims and not for the squeamish--or the young and impressionable.

Recommended as a good fright flick, nothing more. But credit must be given to director Victor Salva for keeping the whole tale tense and taut with visual excitement.

Summing up: An above average thriller of its kind. Jonathan Beck makes one scary Creeper.