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Jeepers Creepers

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 24 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 49 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Victor Salva
Directed by: Victor Salva
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 31, 2001
DVD: January 8, 2002
Running Time: 90 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for terror violence/gore, language and brief nudity
Starring Gina Philips, Justin Long, Jonathan Breck, Patricia Belcher, and Eileen Brennan
After making a horrific discovery in the basement of an old abandoned church, Trish (Philips) and her brother Darryl (Long) watch their routine road trip home from college turn into a heart stopping race for their lives. (United Artists)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Salva's view of the universe is bleak, but he communicates it with scary sincerity.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan
Balancing homage with creativity, the picture is tight, stylishly filmed, clever and, importantly, scary.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
The movie is good enough to put a chill into the late-summer air. Salva has nasty surprises in the grim, minor-key last third, during which the feeling dawns on you that sleep for the next few nights won't come easily.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
It may stir you, it may make you laugh. I am of the stirred variety. I do not want to meet this guy in the dark, though I've been meeting him in my dreams for years. We all have.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
As stylish as it is grisly, Jeepers Creepers has cult film written all over it, and it's not for nothing that Francis Ford Coppola has been a staunch Victor Salva mentor.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
The story (what there is of it) doesn't make much sense, but this is a very scary horror thriller that should keep you either on the edge of your seat or halfway under it.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Salva spins a backwoods serial killer setup into something really scary.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
If "The Others" is this year's paean to “quiet” horror, then Jeepers Creepers is its down 'n' dirty, punk rock, rip-your-throat-out-and-feed-it-to-you bastard child.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Horror fans will still find it worthwhile. The ending is also a nice twist on the slasher genre.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson
It's a shame that Jeepers Creepers cops out -- as American genre movies have been doing for years -- and plays it safe with an F/X-heavy creature that no one would believe in a thousand years.
New York Post Jonathan Foreman
The first half-hour of Jeepers Creepers is so frightening that it's almost a relief when the movie subsequently collapses into silliness.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
The first half-hour of this movie is sensational, creating an atmosphere of dread that any horror master would envy.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
It does survive its 40-minute test drive before turning into a lemon.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Turns into a grab-bag freak show as desperate as it is arbitrary.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Paul Malcolm
Salva falls back on dull, jumbled action and an awkward subplot as he lurches toward a sequel.
Read Full Review >Variety Scott Foundas
Emerges as the most conventional and least imaginative of the recent crop of high-class fright movies that includes "The Others," "Session 9" and "Wendigo."
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
Gets off to a great start and then simply shuts down, like an awesome vintage car on an ambitious road trip.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Loren King
The limp script actually has the characters spout ''Let's get outta here!'' more than once. Or maybe that's just a wise member of the audience talking.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
After introducing a provocative opening, the movie settles in for some pretty cheap scare effects, as well as by-the-numbers computer graphic imagery for the actual marauder.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan
A standard-issue, ineptly executed serving of the genre's staples, from skeptical cops to an all-knowing psychic.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder
Plays like an amateur debut effort written over a weekend during which its writer wasn't entirely sober.
Read Full Review >New Times (L.A.) Gregory Weinkauf
This tripe, however, isn't worth your time or our ink.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.5 (out of 10) based on 49 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Ricky M. gave it a10:
An instant horror classic one of the best of its kind Creepy intelligent suspenseful and scary a refreshing story as well.
Zach B gave it a10:
This is the only scary movie to EVER creep me out. i still haven't watched the whole thing.
Gavin C. gave it a5:
It starts out as a great big thriller, but it soon becomes a great big cliché.
Jw. gave it a2:
By far the most surreal take on the upholstery business to date... Would (probably) be terrifying, if a viewer could in any way identify with victims who, upon noticing a large figure dumping what looks to be a body into a dark culvert, say "Yes, the proper thing to do is drive back alone and climb on in." Horror fans - amazingly - agree with this premise every time.
Alec B. gave it a6:
[***SPOILERS***] very scary for the first half hour or so until you find out that the creature is just a insect with wings that eats people.
Tim T. gave it a10:
brillant. absolutley a instant horror classic. funny, chilling and smart. unique and brilliant.
D THOMPSON gave it a4:
Excellent openning, then slowly crept toward the "stupid victim" sub-genre of horror. Too bad, the openning really did have promise.
