Jeepers Creepers 2

Director: Victor Salva

Starring: Ray Wise, Jonathan Breck, Garikayi Mutambirwa, Eric Nenninger, Nicki Lynn Aycox

The first Jeepers Creepers was, to be brutally frank, a steaming pile of garbage. Showing great potential for the first 20 minutes, it could have been a truly excellent 'mad psycho stalker' movie, in the Hitcher league of films. However, when it decided the bad guy was actually a bat-guy, things just got stupid. If you ignored the fact that the make-up effects were of a standard that not even Buffy TV show would use (and boy..have they had some ropey bad guys over the years!), the story still took a serious nose-dive and the film left you asking the singular question of "If it was a bat, and could fly...why the hell was it driving a truck?"

Well, as you can expect, anticipation for the sequel was at an all time low. When the posters told us it was â??The best horror film of 2003 bar none!â?? and the trailer told us that critics called Jeepers Creepers â??the scariest movie of our generation!â?? my response was â??Ermâ?¦no-ones seen it yet, so how can the poster make such claims!â?? and â??Did they heck-as-like!â?? Still, I suffered 1 hr 45 of my life so that you donâ??t have to. 

Trust me on this - don't waste your time with this film. Whilst not as bad as Charlie's Angels 2 (my new review scale has that as the worst film ever made), it is possibly the stupidest horror film ever made. Picking up where the last film left off (sort of), the dodgy bat thing has one day left to feed, and lo and behold, here comes a bus full of stereotypes for it to feast on. Hey, none of them have any personality either, so who cares who it eats, we won't bother emoting! 

You know a film is struggling to set up a story when a character suddenly has a psychic episode in order to explain the plot! Even then, the visions she receives tell her one thing only, that the beast feeds for 23 days every 23 years, yet she then goes on to explain a lot more than she is told. On top of that, for some reason, despite her not even mentioning it, everyone seems to know that this is the creatureâ??s last night of feeding!! The film then gets worse as the continuity editor obviously decided to quit, and a door jams, only to work perfectly 5 minutes later, a truck is written off, yet is repaired quicker than a Kwik-Fit fitter could do, another truck flips over multiple times, yet a guy on the back of it suffers naught but a Hollywood broken leg! Hey, I could spend all day picking plot holes in this film, it has more than a swiss cheese!! 

This is a sequel which truly lives up to the preceding film, and despite some truly funny parts (although I think they were meant to be scary), is definitely one to avoid like the plague! 

Bad direction, dire acting, reasonable effects, ropey storyâ?¦at least it didn't play that stupid song every five minutes! Anyone who thinks 'Well, with only 1 day left to feed, at least there won't be another sequel' should start crying now as the ending sets up for a third film (leaving you pounding your head in frustration at the stupidity of it all!) 

Try this for a poster quote, "The funniest horror movie of 2003 - Bar none!"