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Mixed or average reviews- based on 38 Ratings

  • Starring: Jonathan Breck, Nicki Aycox, Ray Wise
  • Summary: 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. Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 29
  2. Negative: 15 out of 29
  1. 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.
  2. Reviewed by: Andy Klein
    60
    Substantially better than its predecessor, even while staying strictly within the genre's well-defined boundaries.
  3. There are some nicely gory touches for genre connoisseurs...But JC2 lacks the all-important character development we got in the first installment.
  4. Reviewed by: Ellen Fox
    38
    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.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 25
  2. Negative: 6 out of 25
  1. rickym.
    10
    Even better the second time around another macabre masterpiece from victor salva.
  2. 6
    The Creeper is back, and this time he is after a busload of high school students on their way home from the big game! Can the teens outlast the night and force The Creeper back into a forced hibernation? Unfortunately for us, they can, but not before he tears through more than half of their whiny, over-privileged, and utterly annoying friends on the road to nowhere. The main thing this sequel has going for it is the return of Jonathan Breck as the monstrous man-eating Creeper, who adds even more personality and dark comedy to his villainous role. Like in the original, JEEPERS CREEPERS 2 offers a few stylish moments and jolting shocks, but it is riddled with all of the same errors in logic and storytelling as before. Once again, Victor Salva relies on another psychic character to lend some clue as to what is going on, especially to anyone who had missed the first film. At the very least, The Creeper puts an end to the teens' incessant yammering in a number of brutal and bloody ways when he's not ingesting their organs to replace his own. Expand
  3. The original 'Jeepers Creepers' initially seemed like a fine piece of work but ultimately became one great big cliché, however this one is just one great big cliché from start to finish. Expand
  4. Eh it was a little better then the previous film but its still a pretty typical horror film that really does nothing to seperate it from similar films in the genre. Expand

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