Jeepers Creepers
Short description
Brother and sister Trish and Darry are driving home from college for the holidays when an aggressive truck driver runs them off a lonely rural road. Further along they spot the same battered truck parked beside an abandoned church, and watch as a large figure in a long coat and wide-brimmed hat drops what looks like a body wrapped in sheeting into a pipe in the ground. Against Trish's protests, Darry returns to investigate, and the two find themselves pursued by a creature that feeds on human beings.
Victor Salva wrote and directed the film, his third feature after Clownhouse and Powder. Gina Philips and Justin Long play the siblings, with Jonathan Breck as the Creeper and supporting turns from Patricia Belcher, Eileen Brennan and Brandon Smith. Made for about 10 million dollars, it took roughly 59 million worldwide, a strong return that led Salva to continue the story with Jeepers Creepers 2 and, years later, Jeepers Creepers 3.
On IMDb the film holds 6.2 out of 10 from around 157,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.5 from a much smaller base of about 3,400. A critics' score of 5.6 from 116 reviews places it slightly below both audience figures, making it a modestly received genre entry rather than a broadly acclaimed one.
What's left behind the scenes
- The working title of the film was “And Then Comes the Boogeyman.”
- The film was named after the opening words of the chorus of the old 30s hit “Jeepers Creepers” by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer.
- According to the director's original vision, the film's ending was supposed to be supplemented with another scene. In a sunlit clearing, 23 years after the terrifying events, a young man named Harry (played by the same Justin Long) tells this story to his girlfriend, Lisa (again, Gina Philips). She doesn't believe Harry, but on their way to the bus station, their path is crossed by a menacing armored van, and a cheerful tune, "Jeepers Creepers," plays on the radio.
- Debbie Morgan or Tina Turner could have played the role of Patricia Belcher in the film.
- In the final scene, Justin Long, who played the Creeper's victim, Darry Jenner, played the Creeper. And Jonathan Breck, who played the Creeper throughout the film, appears without makeup as a bald police officer in one of the episodes. The film's director, Victor Salva, also appeared in a small role – as one of the Creeper's victims, pinned in the church basement.
- Victor Salva originally wrote the Creeper monster role for Lance Henriksen.
- The song "Jeepers Creepers" was written by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer in 1938, and in 1939 a short animated film "Jeepers Creepers" and a full-length Western of the same name were released.
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