Fresh
If the reptile brain in you, that ugly little cluster of cerebral cells where all the destructive urges lie, needs a good jolt, Jeepers Creepers offers you just such a treat.
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
Overview
On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.
Director and cast
- Victor Salva Director
- Gina Philips as Patricia 'Trish' Jenner
- Justin Long as Darius 'Darry' Jenner
- Jonathan Breck as The Creeper
- Patricia Belcher as Jezelle Gay Hartman
- Eileen Brennan as The Cat Lady
- Brandon Smith as Sgt. David Tubbs
- Peggy Sheffield as Waitress Beverly
- Jeffrey William Evans as Restaurant Manager
- Patrick Cherry as Binky Plutzker
- Jon Beshara as Officer Robert Gideon
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
47%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The plotting is a tad generic, and the film feels long at a scant 90 minutes. But the movie is good enough to put a chill into the late-summer air.
David Edelstein, Slate
Rotten
Feels too rote to inspire real terror.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Rotten
Jeepers Creepers is better setting things up than following through. It must resort to psychic mumbo-jumbo that has to be played straight and doesn't work.
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
The only mystery to Jeepers Creepers is why Francis Ford Coppola chose to stamp his name on this grade-Z movie as producer.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
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