The siblings' affectionate bickering has exactly the right tone for two bored, slightly spoiled college students killing time on a vacant stretch of Florida highway. The scariest moments arrive in the early scenes in which Trish (Gina Philips) and her younger brother, Darry (Justin Long), while driving home from college, have some close encounters on a deserted road with a strange old rattletrap of a truck that looms up out of nowhere. Until ''Jeepers Creepers'' surrenders its imagination to formulaic plot filler and the predictably futile attempts to kill the monster by running over it and shooting at it, ''Jeepers Creepers'' works up a reasonably delicious tingle. By the time you've seen it hungrily sniffing one character's dirty underwear and sucking the tongue from the mouth of a fresh corpse, you've witnessed this movie's outer limit of horror. And as usual, its appearance comes far too early in the game. Once its bat-winged supernatural thingamajig appears, the beast isn't half as horrifying as you imagined.
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Mercer, a genius at setting rurally flavored American slang into humorous rhymes, would probably have appreciated the movie's diabolical application of his lyric, especially the line ''Jeepers creepers, where'd you get those eyes?'' The song is heard several times in the movie (usually as a swing recording but once in rock form) and is invariably a prelude to catastrophe.Īs long as the film refrains from revealing its monster, ''Jeepers Creepers'' builds up a mood of sinister expectation. The movie takes its title from the jaunty 1930's love song by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren. ''Jeepers Creepers,'' a cannier-than-average teen horror movie, makes you shudder in its early scenes, then turns into a noisy carnival attraction once its designated monster finally materializes.
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