The American horror film "Jeepers Creepers" is a vivid example of a simple horror story with a simple plot and a limited budget, which managed to attract the attention of viewers and bring great profit to its creators. The name is taken from an old jazz composition that sounds in the picture. An interesting fact is that the iconic Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola became the executive producer of the first part of the terrible story about demonic creatures hunting for people. Later two sequels of this picture appeared. Reviews of the movie "Jeepers Creepers" and its sequels by film critics were mixed, but the box office remained stable.
Background
The premiere of the horror took place in 2001. For a long time, the director and scriptwriter Viktor Salva was unable to find sources of funding to implement his idea. Film companies did not believe that such a simple horror film could be commercially successful.
To take a serious risk by investing money in creating this picture, only the American Zoetrope studio, the founder of which is Coppola, decided. Intuition did not disappoint the legendary director: the box office of the film was a record. Positive feedback about the Jeepers Creepers from the audience showed that the audience was attracted to the familiar atmosphere of the traditional horror filmed in accordance with all the laws of the genre.
A couple of years after the premiere of the first film, the sequel, created by the same team of producers and directors, was released. In 2017, the third part of the Jeepers Creepers was shot. It is hard to call enthusiastic reviews of professional critics about the sequels, but they are not inferior to the first film in the number of tickets sold in cinemas.
Plot
The main character of this story is a supernatural winged monster that has existed in the world since time immemorial. Every 23 years, he wakes up from sleep in order to start hunting people. Eating certain human organs makes the monster invulnerable and incredibly strong. He is trying to hide his terrible appearance under a cloak and a hat. Many authors of the Jeepers Creepers review point out that the storyline is not new and is clearly borrowed from the works of Stephen King, the honored horror master.
The beginning of the story
In the first film, two college students, a brother and a sister, entered the wilderness of the countryside on their way home in an unequal struggle with the monster. They become victims of their own curiosity, deciding to find out what a strange person is doing near an old abandoned church. Having drawn his attention to himself, brother and sister turn into prey, which the monster begins to pursue relentlessly.
Sequels
In the second film, a demonic creature attacks a farmer's family and kidnaps his youngest son. Then the monster lies in wait on a deserted road for a school basketball team and disables the bus carrying it. A winged monster flies over a deserted area, hunting for scattering young athletes, while a farmer, armed with an automatic harpoon, is trying to track down and kill him.
The third part is an interquel (tells about the events that occurred between the first and second films). In this series, cops and people who witnessed the previous awakening of a bloodthirsty demon fight with absolute evil. By the number of corpses and severed limbs, the third film does not lag behind the first and second.
Filming
The beginning of work on the last part was postponed for 14 years. The reason was that movie studios doubted the possibility of repetition of success. Myriad Pictures agreed to finance the picture, but a new obstacle arose: the planned start of filming in Canada did not take place because of the scandal associated with the criminal past of director Victor Salva. To the delight of fans of this horror, the producers did not lose their determination to finish the job and moved the work on the film to Louisiana. In April 2017, Victor Salva completed the shooting of Jeepers Creepers. The reviews of the director and actors about the process of creating the picture were very positive. They promised that fans of the film would see a spectacular sight.
Premiere
The start of the rental of the third part of the famous franchise was organized in a rather unusual way. Cinemas officially announced in advance that the picture would be shown on September 26 for only one day. As a bonus, viewers were shown scenes that were not included in the final version of the film, and an interview with actor Jonathan Breck, who played the role of a monster in all three parts. Another one-day screening took place on October 4.
Critics reviews the movie Jeepers Creepers 3
The third part of the horror made a mixed impression on the connoisseurs of cinema. Most critics believe that it is better than the second, but inferior in quality to the first. The authors of the reviews for the movie "Jeepers Creepers 3" agree that the creators of the picture sincerely tried to meet the expectations of fans. Some critics thought that the director and actors could not reproduce the atmosphere of fear that reigned in the first part. Due to the limited distribution, the film was watched by a small number of viewers, which makes it difficult to obtain an objective rating of Jeepers Creepers 3 and reviews about it. Longtime fans of this horror are generally satisfied and hope that the third part will not be the last.