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Jeepers Creepers 2
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artists


5.9

based on 29 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for horror violence and language

Starring Ray Wise, Jonathan Breck, Travis Schiffner, Nicki Lynn Aycox, Drew Tyler Bell, Billy Aaron Brown, Marieh Delfino, and Luke Edwards

Set soon after the events of the first film, a group of basketball players, coaches, cheerleaders, and their friends on the bus going home from the state championship find themselves attacked by a winged people-eating monster called the Creeper (Breck), as he continues his 23-day-long feeding frenzy.

GENRE(S):	Suspense/Thriller
WRITTEN BY:	Victor Salva (also characters)
DIRECTED BY:	Victor Salva
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: December 23, 2003 Video: December 23, 2003 Theatrical: August 29, 2003
RUNNING TIME:	103 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA / Netherlands

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...

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Like its predecessor, Jeepers Creepers 2 is that rare modern horror film that remembers audiences are scared far more by what they don't see than by what they do. For that alone, horror fans should be thankful.

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

There's greater consistency to it, and considerably more humor, with macabre slapstick and fun-house ghoulishness that, at their best, recall early Tim Burton.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

Jeepers Creepers aimed for the archetypal primal spookiness of a scary campfire tale, and halfway succeeded. Here, Salva makes it work virtually every step of the way.

Variety Andy Klein

Substantially better than its predecessor, even while staying strictly within the genre's well-defined boundaries.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

The tag here is more silly than haunting, but this is still a pretty wild ride, with a fine, knife-wielding score by Bennett Salvay.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Would be a completely routine horror movie, except that it has a superior director. Watch this film for five minutes, and it's clear that Victor Salva knows how to make movies.

The New York Times Dave Kehr

You don't have to be a horror-movie scholar to know that nothing significant is going to happen in any movie with "2" in the title; the creature has to stay around long enough at least to complete a trilogy and fill out a nice boxed set of DVD's.

Village Voice Greg Milner

An apparent Atkins devotee, he eschews the carb-heavy corn fields, opting for protein-rich human flesh, primarily a high school basketball team returning home on a lonely highway.

Premiere Kelly Borgeson

Viewers should hope Jeepers 2 is the final act in this series. The once-promising Creeper, who we see up close this time, has emerged as a garden-variety killer.

Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown

Writer-director Victor Salva squanders all of his original movie's not-entirely-awfulness and bumbles into the realm of unintentional comedy.

Film Threat Kevin Carr

A decidedly sharp drop in quality from the first film. It’s still a somewhat decent horror flick if you’re looking for cheap scares and eerie imagery.

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

Salva directs cheap thrills effectively, but his own apparent desires come off more frightening than any winged demon.

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

The problem once again remains an inability to sustain those de rigueur elements of tension and suspense much beyond those first 20 minutes.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The film delivers a few slick thrills before beaching itself on an ending that would be chilling if its depiction of unimaginable horror's lingering legacy weren't so muddled.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

There are some nicely gory touches for genre connoisseurs...But JC2 lacks the all-important character development we got in the first installment.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

It plays better as exasperating comedy than genuine horror -- although there is something terrifying about being stuck in a movie whose idea of a bogeyman is a scarecrow with an eating disorder.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

There are a few good jolts - and a moderate amount of spurting blood - but things pretty much proceed exactly as you think they will.

Chicago Tribune Ellen Fox

Horror movies don't have to make sense in the real world, but when you have to help their internal logic along this much, it's pretty much a cue for heckling -- or checking your watch.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

This low-budget, high-gore sequel can be effectively frightening at times, and just plain boring, too. The suspense builds, the blood gushes, the momentum dissipates. It's an unsatisfying mix.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason Anderson

The monster isn't very interesting (or scary) to look at: he's just an oily, overgrown gremlin.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Want to see a movie where almost everything takes place on a bus? Try "Speed." Jeepers Creepers 2 isn't even worth a peek.

Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour

Where the first "Jeepers Creepers" came across like a dark, wacky dream, the inevitable Jeepers Creepers 2 seems more like a franchise under construction.

Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

Functional but tiresome.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Supplies us with a first-class creature, a fourth-rate story, and dialogue possibly created by feeding the screenplay into a pasta maker.

Miami Herald Charles Savage

A stark regression from the intelligence of the Scream franchise, this teen horror sequel is about as satisfying as low-budget food that's been under the heat lamps too long.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paul West

What results is a movie as vacuous as the characters on screen. It's not often a movie makes you yearn for the energy and half-baked artistry of "Freddy vs. Jason," but there you have it.

USA Today Claudia Puig

The thrills, chills, frights, starts and occasional screams that a good horror film elicits from an audience are not there. Jeepers, the Creeper has little to recommend it.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

The worst horror sequel of this or many another summer.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Hopefully, someone will grab the torch and, if not run with it, at the very least track down and set fire to the highly combustible prints of this inexcusably inept yawn-a-thon - it's not so much bad as it is unfathomable.

The average user rating for this movie is 5.9 (out of 10) based on 21 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Alec B. gave it a9:
[***SPOILERS***] funny to watched people get slaughtered by the advanced form of a dragon fly.

John C. gave it a10:
This movie was really great. I loved it.

Jared R. gave it a10:
I don't know, it seems that a lot of people don't like this movie. I thought it was great. Victor salva did a really good job on this one. It's much better than the first. And it's a different kind of horror movie. They actually kill the stupid thing with a homemade harpoon. That's awesome.

Emily S. gave it a 0:
At a girly sleepover, you would expect a teen horror to get everyone screaming and grabbing for the nearest cushin. You wouldnt expect half of the participants to fall asleep, while the rest pointed out faults with the direction and acting. Well, thats what happened in this one, the musical score creates no atmosphere, and all attempts at making suspence is ruined by the unintentional comic genius that is this movie. I practically pissed myself with laughter when one of the jocks has his head ripped off, the decapitated body starts running around like a headless chicken. Truly Inspired.

Gordo A. gave it a 5:
Stupid Movie. It wasn't scary like the first one. And its not good like the first one.

Ri'kker H. gave it a 10:
I would hate to believe that such animosity has its fangs bared at an upcoming horror film such as Jeepers Creepers 1 and 2. In broad aspect, if it was Friday 13th or Nightmare On Elm Street coming out today, wouldn't we focus on it so hard that we'd want to call it crap. But, with that said, I can see where most of these arguments are coming from, except a couple of the 0's, goodnight fellow movie fans.

Rob D. gave it an 8:
In response to Kevin F's rating you have to remember when this movie is actually set. It's the 1950's so liquid steel was hardly a common amenity. Burning it in fire or acid wouldn't be possible either as the creeper can't be killed. As for the caracter developement, that is a matter of opinion. I personlly thought the movie was very good although it could've been improved slightly.

Jeepers Creepers 2 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artists

Jeepers Creepers 2
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artists