Set a few days after the original, a championship basketball team's bus is attacked by The Creeper, the winged, flesh-eating terror, on the last day of his 23-day feeding frenzy.Set a few days after the original, a championship basketball team's bus is attacked by The Creeper, the winged, flesh-eating terror, on the last day of his 23-day feeding frenzy.Set a few days after the original, a championship basketball team's bus is attacked by The Creeper, the winged, flesh-eating terror, on the last day of his 23-day feeding frenzy.
- Awards
- 6 nominations
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaVictor Salva wrote the "Every 23 years for 23 days it gets to eat" rule in Jeepers Creepers (2001) so there would be no sequel unless the movie was set in the future, and he knew the studio wouldn't want that. However Francis Ford Coppola found an easy loophole: set it during the same 23 days as the first movie. So this movie is set on the 23rd day for the purpose of not making another sequel.
- Goofs(at around 50 mins) The eyeball on the javelin is looking the wrong way.
- Quotes
Boy: You Taggert?
Older Jack Jr.: That's right.
Boy: Can we see it?
Older Jack Jr.: [referring to the sign "Bat Out Of Hell"] Can you read?
Boy: Is that thing real? Because I've heard it's a bunch of bullshit.
Older Jack Jr.: It's still five bucks.
Girl: Where'd it come from?
Older Jack Jr.: My dad killed it.
Boy: Yeah, but where'd it come from?
Older Jack Jr.: It's five bucks from you too.
Boy: How'd he kill it?
Older Jack Jr.: Ask him.
- Crazy creditsThere are no opening credits whatsoever, save for United Artists, American Zoetrope & Myriad Pictures; the title of the film does not appear until the ending credits.
- Alternate versionsThe film originally opened with the team's basketball game in its final moments. This was filmed, but cut from the final version. On the DVD special features, the Gymnasium set can be seen in the background on the feature entitled "A Day In Hell".
- ConnectionsEdited into Lights, Camera, Creeper: Making 'Jeepers Creepers 2' (2003)
- SoundtracksThe Bannon County Fight Song
Words and Music by Victor Salva
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1 (Panavision)
Sound formats: Dolby Digital / DTS
Stranded in a broken-down bus on a lonely country road, a group of high school jocks and cheerleaders are targeted by the monstrous Creeper (Jonathan Breck) who needs their body parts for the purposes of regeneration. But the Creeper hasn't reckoned on the tenacity of one of its earlier victims (Ray Wise), a grieving father seeking revenge for the loss of his youngest son...
Though crafted with technical precision and performed with gusto by a strong cast of newcomers and veterans, this disappointing sequel sacrifices the heartfelt emotional undertow of its magnificent predecessor JEEPERS CREEPERS (2000) in favor of bigger and splashier set-pieces. While it's as raucous and entertaining as one could hope for, it's also a surprisingly conventional effort from writer-director Victor Salva, whose best work (POWDER, RITES OF PASSAGE, etc.) has always focused on small groups of characters caught up in extreme situations. Here, his attempts to shoehorn deeper issues into what is essentially a popcorn movie seems forced and inconsequential, and he spreads his narrative concerns too thinly over a broad range of interchangeable characters: The elements of homophobia and racism which initially divide the young heroes - until they're forced to overcome their differences in order to survive the Creeper's onslaught - are rendered increasingly meaningless as the movie progresses, until they no longer have any direct influence on the wider storyline.
But Salva is too much of a craftsman for his movie to be a complete washout. The action/horror set-pieces are genuinely spectacular, and Breck camps it up superbly as the hideous Creeper, swooping out of the darkness to carry unsuspecting victims to their doom. Working in scope format for the first time in their respective careers (REAL scope, not that Super 35 rubbish), Salva and cinematographer Don E. FauntLeRoy conjure a series of startling images from the outset, many of them tinged with visual poetry: The golden cornfield in the opening sequence, where the film's first victim suffers an appalling fate (a genuinely horrific set-piece); the point-of-view shots from the Creeper's perspective as it swoops on fleeing prey; and the eerie calm of the closing sequence, which portends sequels to come. Salva's regular composer, Bennett Salvay, delivers a terrific symphonic score, as brassy and frightening as any in recent years, which serves to boost the film's dramatic appeal in no uncertain terms.
Wise, a late addition to the cast, dominates the film as an avenging farmer who is every bit the Creeper's equal in terms of strength and persistence, and he's given strong support by veterans Diane Delano and Thom Gossom Jr. The younger cast members are enthusiastic and talented, and it's a fair bet that some of them (Travis Schiffner, Al Santos, Nicki Aycox, etc.) will figure heavily in various Hunkiest/Sexiest lists during the next few years. Look out for a brief - but welcome - cameo appearance by Justin Long from "JC1". It may not live up to every expectation, but there's still much to enjoy in JEEPERS CREEPERS II.
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Box office
- Budget
- $17,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $35,667,218
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $15,269,324
- Aug 31, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $63,102,666
- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1