Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Okay, now I'm going to start working on the movie reviews I promised. Jeepers Creepers 2 is a well done horror film. It takes place after the first one, although the only characters the two movies have in common is the monster and the main character of the first one (who is only in it in a dream sequence and they never explain who he is). The first part is a interesting concept. A horror movie set in the middle of the day where you can see for miles around. It takes place, for the most part, on a school bus broke down on a small road in the middle of corn fields. Like most horror movies, the people do things no real people would do. For example, if a bunch of teenaged guys have to take a leak in a vast cornfield, they won't be standing shoulder to shoulder.
Anyway, it's a good, if not groundbreaking horror film. None of the actors are well known. One actress starred in a TNbc saturday morning show and had a near-identical sister on Roswell. Another is famous for being a up-and-coming starlet, although I don't know anything else she's been in. (And I don't quite feel she's worth looking up in the IMDB.
With the first one, the problem that stuck with me is that there was no ending. The stars got away, but the bad guy never got killed. The main problem I had with the second one was also the ending, although for a different reason. I liked the final ending of the film. I don't want to give it away, but everyone in the audience will have it figured out within seconds of the start of the final scene. The part I had problems with is the "final battle". It involved the various survivors running off into the cornfield in various directions. When the action was over, they never showed some of those students. It's never made clear which one lived and which one died. In one case, one of the main students jumps from a pickup truck racing through the field. Now she probably lived. The truck couldn't have been going that fast and it wasn't like she was falling onto concrete. And she was jumping out of the cab, so there wasn't much vertical distance to fall. But they simply never showed her again, either dead or alive. Also, I think the guy who was driving the truck died, I'm not sure though.
In the end, though, I think the whole movie was based on the idea of the final scene. If you go into the movie with reasonable expectations (it's a horror movie) then you shouldn't be disappointed.
Anyway, it's a good, if not groundbreaking horror film. None of the actors are well known. One actress starred in a TNbc saturday morning show and had a near-identical sister on Roswell. Another is famous for being a up-and-coming starlet, although I don't know anything else she's been in. (And I don't quite feel she's worth looking up in the IMDB.
With the first one, the problem that stuck with me is that there was no ending. The stars got away, but the bad guy never got killed. The main problem I had with the second one was also the ending, although for a different reason. I liked the final ending of the film. I don't want to give it away, but everyone in the audience will have it figured out within seconds of the start of the final scene. The part I had problems with is the "final battle". It involved the various survivors running off into the cornfield in various directions. When the action was over, they never showed some of those students. It's never made clear which one lived and which one died. In one case, one of the main students jumps from a pickup truck racing through the field. Now she probably lived. The truck couldn't have been going that fast and it wasn't like she was falling onto concrete. And she was jumping out of the cab, so there wasn't much vertical distance to fall. But they simply never showed her again, either dead or alive. Also, I think the guy who was driving the truck died, I'm not sure though.
In the end, though, I think the whole movie was based on the idea of the final scene. If you go into the movie with reasonable expectations (it's a horror movie) then you shouldn't be disappointed.
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