Jeepers Creepers - It's done

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Movie
German title Jeepers Creepers - It's done
Original title Jeepers Creepers
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Country of production USA , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Victor Salva
script Victor Salva
production Barry Opper ,
Tom Luse
music Bennett Salvay
camera Don E. FauntLeRoy
cut Ed Marx
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Jeepers Creepers - It's Done (Original Title: Jeepers Creepers ) is an American horror film from 2001 . The script was written by Victor Salva , who also directed . Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope produced the horror film together with the Cinerenta film fundfor United Artists . In 2003, the sequel Jeepers Creepers 2 hit theaters. At the end of 2017 the third part of Jeepers Creepers 3 was released in cinemas and on March 23, 2018, for B. in Germany as direct-to-video . The film is loosely based on the legend of the Mothman from Point Pleasant . The film was also inspired by the legend of the Spring Heeled Jack .

action

The film is about the siblings Trish (Patricia) and Darry (Darius), who drive home from college on vacation. While they leisurely drive down a country road and talk, the song " Jeepers Creepers " can be heard on the radio. The drive runs smoothly until they are terrorized by a stranger in an old truck - an event that they would have quickly forgotten if they hadn't later seen the driver throw something into a hole that was a human body while driving past an old chapel resembles.

They watch the stranger, but when he notices this, he runs to his old truck, follows Trish and Darry and drives them off the road. Darry insists on going back to see what the hole by the chapel is. A decision that he soon regrets deeply, because in the vault that the two discover, mutilated and preserved corpses like works of art are attached to the walls and ceiling. The siblings are trying to escape.

On their escape they come to a rest stop and want to call the police from there, but then the phone rings - it's for Darry. On the phone is a woman who first talks crazy about cats and then plays him the song "Jeepers Creepers" and says that if he ever hears that song he would have to run for his life. Darry doesn't take her seriously and hangs up. When the police arrive, Darry and Trish discover that the stranger has searched their car. As they drive on with the police, the stranger attacks and kills the police, while the siblings hear the song "Jeepers Creepers" again on the radio.

When the male police officer's head hits them on the windshield , they brake hard. When Trish tries to see if everything is okay, the driver's door flies open. Trish walks back to the car and the siblings watch the stranger as he gets out and whistles the tune of "Jeepers Creepers" while he goes to the cop's head and nibbles out his tongue. The siblings flee in fear and finally, in search of help, arrive at a house where a woman lives with many cats. The stranger followed the two, the old woman shoots multiple times with her shotgun shotgun at him but can it therefore not harm and is killed by him. On the run again, Trish runs over the stranger several times to make sure she has finally killed him off. When she drove over him a few times, something stirs under his coat on his back. Finally a wing flips out and the stranger tries to fly away, but does not succeed. Trish and Darry leave it there.

Trish and Darry finally manage to escape to a police station . There appears the woman who had spoken to Darry on the phone. She says her name is Jezelle Hartman and that she has dreams in which she sees the future. From her they learn that the driver is a "creeper" who rises every 23rd spring to hunt down people for 23 days, from whose body parts he feeds, which then become part of him. He is hunting the siblings because they have something about them that he apparently would like to have. By frightening someone, they can "sense" which part of a person lives up to their demands. She also mentions that once the song “Jeepers Creepers” is heard, there is no way out. B. on the radio.

The creeper, believed dead, intrudes into the police station shortly afterwards. A police officer surprises him when he eats prisoners and regenerates himself. When the police then attack him, however, they notice that the creeper cannot be killed even by bullets. The fortune teller gives the reason for this because he has devoured so many hearts that his own could never stop beating. Shortly afterwards, the creeper attacks the fortune teller, but leaves her alive because she doesn't seem to have anything to eat. The creeper grabs Darry, and Trish asks him to take her himself, hoping that her brother will be spared. It seems as if she would succeed, since the creature seems to think twice, but shortly afterwards it disappears together with its male prey through a window into the night. Trish can only watch helplessly.

The film ends in an abandoned factory. The creeper is sitting at a table and doing something. Meanwhile, the song “Jeepers Creepers” is playing from a gramophone in the background . Then the camera pans up on Darry's undressed, hung body, stops at his painful face and reveals the creeper's "work" on Darry: he is missing his eyeballs. At the end the creeper looks through Darry's empty eye sockets , the song ends and the credits begin.

Reviews

“Anyone who needs a plausible story to be afraid and thinks special effects are mood killers should leave the cinema early. Because the murderous 'Creeper' is not human! And from the moment that becomes apparent, the thriller turns into a larger than life horror tale. "

- Cinema

“A film surfing the wave of teen horror films, which convinces in the first half with its tension-increasing slowness, uses splatter effects only sparingly and is based on the horror films of the 1970s and 1980s, but then loses itself in the clichés of the genre . "

- film service

Awards

The film was u. a. nominated for the Saturn Award and the International Horror Guild Award . He won the Crystal Reel Award .

Locations

Jeepers Creepers was filmed in the following locations in Florida :

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jeepers Creepers (2001) . In: AFI Catalog Of Feature Films. American Film Institute, accessed on November 16, 2017 (English): "Countries: Germany, United States"
  2. ↑ Certificate of Approval for Jeepers Creepers - It's done . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2004 (PDF; test number: 89 080-a V / DVD).
  3. ↑ Jeepers Creepers 3. In: amazon.de. Retrieved March 18, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Todd Alcott: "Monsters! Jeepers Creepers, ” accessed July 3, 2015.
  5. ↑ March 2 Madness: 'Jeepers Creepers'. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .