Jeepers Creepers 2

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Movie
German title Jeepers Creepers 2
Original title Jeepers Creepers 2
Jeepers Creepers 2.jpg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director Victor Salva
script Victor Salva
production Tom Luse
music Bennett Salvay
camera Don E. FauntLeRoy
cut Ed Marx
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Jeepers Creepers - It's ready

Successor  →
Jeepers Creepers 3

Jeepers Creepers 2 is an American horror film released in 2003 and the sequel to Jeepers Creepers (2001). The film was produced by Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope for the US film company United Artists . The Kinowelt Filmverleih GmbH took over the theatrical release in Germany. The third part Jeepers Creepers 3 came to the cinema in 2017 or was released as direct-to-video in 2018 .

action

A few days after the first part: the farmer Jack Taggart and his two sons Jack Jr. and Billy are in their fields on a sunny day. Younger son Billy pegs a few scarecrows until he notices one of them has moved. When he tries to escape, the creeper catches him and flies away with him. His older brother and father can only watch as the boy is kidnapped screaming. The creeper is on the move again: a carnivorous, human-like figure with huge, bat-like wings that awakes every 23rd spring for 23 days to eat.

Change of scene: a high school basketball team is driving their bus home from a game and is on a lonely country road, but when it breaks down, the creeper gets in their way. Before that, the schoolgirl Minxie sees a figure on the roadside in a vision who wants to warn her of something: it is Darry, who was killed in the first part, who warns her of the creeper who is up to mischief in the area. Since 22 days have passed and the monster has amused itself with the helpless rural population during this time, it tries to grab the numerous occupants of the bus. Bus driver Betty and coach Dwayne get caught first. As a result, while the students, holed up in the bus, are helplessly exposed to the creature's attacks, Taggart and his remaining son, heavily armed, go on the hunt for the creeper. At some point they discover the now completely demolished bus.

After several of the young people had to lose their lives, the remaining ones join the father-son duo in the all-important fight, which they win with the last bit of strength. But the badly wounded Creeper is not really dead, but falls back into his 23-year sleep. Taggart, still out for revenge for his slain son, takes the now dormant Creeper with him. In the last scene, a couple of young people visit the Taggart farm. It seems to have become known that something strange can be seen there. For an entrance fee they are taken to the barn, where the creeper, visibly emaciated but still sleeping, hangs on one of the walls. Almost 23 years have passed again and an aged Taggart waits heavily armed for the creeper's early awakening, determined not to let the creature get away this time.

Reviews

“This is designed as an homage to 'Jaws' and is just one of many film references that range from 'The Birds' to 'The Night of the Living Dead' to itself 'The Wizard of Oz'. For a classic - 'Psycho' - Bennett used Salvay for the orchestral score. A lot more clearly than in the original, which focused on a pair of siblings (Justin Long has a cameo) as potential victims, the director seems to be exorcising his personal (sexual) demon here. Regarding Salva's past as a convicted pederast (which led to the commercial failure of his critically acclaimed Disney drama 'Powder'), the character of the creeper serves quite clearly as a metaphor for destructive homosexuality. In this light, the excellently photographed slasher flick is much more 'creepy' than many an inexperienced horror fan would suspect. "

- Focus: film

"The sequel, which was excellently photographed for a slasher flick and provided with elaborate tricks, which Francis Ford Coppola was in charge of as executive producer, is a hit for the horror fan base."

- Video Week

Awards

The film was nominated for the Saturn Award in 2004 for Best Horror Film. He was also nominated for the Motion Picture Sound Editors Award in 2004 for sound editing .

Others

Justin Long also appears in the second part as Darry Jenner in a short scene when Minxie has a dream on the bus.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Jeepers Creepers 2 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2003 (PDF; accessed on January 7, 2018).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Jeepers Creepers 2 . Youth Media Commission , accessed on 7 January 2018 .