| 88 |
Charlotte Observer
Salva's view of the universe is bleak, but he communicates it with scary sincerity.
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| 83 |
Portland Oregonian
Balancing homage with creativity, the picture is tight, stylishly filmed, clever and, importantly, scary.
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| 80 |
Slate
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.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
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.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
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.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
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.
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| 67 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Salva spins a backwoods serial killer setup into something really scary.
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| 67 |
Austin Chronicle
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.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
Horror fans will still find it worthwhile. The ending is also a nice twist on the slasher genre.
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| 60 |
Mr. Showbiz
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.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Good, ghoulish fun.
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| 50 |
New York Post
The first half-hour of Jeepers Creepers is so frightening that it's almost a relief when the movie subsequently collapses into silliness.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
The first half-hour of this movie is sensational, creating an atmosphere of dread that any horror master would envy.
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| 50 |
USA Today
It does survive its 40-minute test drive before turning into a lemon.
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| 42 |
Entertainment Weekly
Turns into a grab-bag freak show as desperate as it is arbitrary.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
Salva falls back on dull, jumbled action and an awkward subplot as he lurches toward a sequel.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
Works up a reasonably delicious tingle.
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| 40 |
Variety
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."
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| 40 |
Salon.com
Gets off to a great start and then simply shuts down, like an awesome vintage car on an ambitious road trip.
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| 38 |
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.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
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.
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| 25 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
A standard-issue, ineptly executed serving of the genre's staples, from skeptical cops to an all-knowing psychic.
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| 12 |
Chicago Tribune
Plays like an amateur debut effort written over a weekend during which its writer wasn't entirely sober.
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| 0 |
New Times (L.A.)
This tripe, however, isn't worth your time or our ink.
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