Half-baked piece of garbage.
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08/30/01
Jeepers Creepers (2001)
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Reviews Counted:106
Fresh:47
Rotten:59
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Jeepers Creepers has a promising start. Unfortunately, the tension and suspense quickly deflates into genre cliches as movie goes on.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: A brother and sister on spring break from college decide to take the scenic route home--an endless, desolate stretch of road through central Florida. Along the way they are run off the road by a... [More]
Starring: Justin Long, Gina Philips, Patricia Belcher, Jon Beshara
Director: Victor Salva
Reviews for Jeepers Creepers
Although he slips occasionally, Mr. Salva has still crafted a fairly original and scarifying piece of work.
08/30/01
Salva delivers what might be a lost Friday the 13th sequel, though without the glimmer of wit and self-consciousness that informed those films.
08/30/01
You know the part in scary movies where you're not sure what is going on and the suspense is killing you, but then you find out what's going on and it's stupid? This is it.
08/30/01
A standard-issue, ineptly executed serving of the genre's staples, from skeptical cops to an all-knowing psychic, on hand to explain everything about the demonic force behind the body count.
08/30/01
Jeepers Creepers is itself a throwback, to the kind of (mostly) unironic, unpretentious B-movie that played at drive-ins 40 years ago.
08/30/01
For the first 30 minutes of Jeepers Creepers, writer-director Victor Salva seems to be spinning the Gein legend into an eerie, grandly effective creepfest. Then the movie veers off onto a drastically different and less satisfying track.
08/30/01
Salva (Powder), directing from his own screenplay, develops Jeepers Creepers in such a way that it offers plenty of shock scares as well as a gradually building sense of menace.
08/30/01
In spite of how it loses control of itself during the last chunk, the beginning and middle is all the nightmare material you need.
08/30/01
Who'd have imagined that the two most satisfying movies of August - no, of the entire summer stretching back to Shrek -- would be horror films?
08/30/01
The surprise is that, even though the title garnered laughs with every movie audience I was with who saw the trailer, Jeepers Creepers isn't a bad little horror flick.
08/30/01
Plays like an amateur debut effort written over a weekend during which its writer wasn't entirely sober.
08/30/01
Bad title; bad horror flick.
08/30/01
It could've easily turned into something that would've scared the poop out of you, but winds up nothing more than road kill.
08/30/01
Top CriticYet another hyperbolic slasher cartoon.
08/30/01
The first half...is surprisingly lithe and stylish...That's not enough, unfortunately, to save its increasingly poor second half, which careens into silliness.
08/30/01
Jeepers Creepers is an old-fashioned horror flick tailor-made for the Fangoria crowd.
08/29/01
Two of filmdom's biggest idiots get involved in a really creepy, scary horror story.
08/29/01
The initial, neatly sustained eerieness soon gives way to increasingly freaky plotting that seriously diminishes the picture's promising fear factor.
08/28/01
Top CriticGruesome, nasty little horror creature/feature from writer/director Victor Salva, a convicted pedophile.
08/20/01
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