Reviews

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** This movie reminded me of an episode of X-files. Y'know, the one where the incestuous family genetically degenerated into cavemen over generations?

They liked to bash people while listening to "Wonderful, Wonderful" by Johnny Mathis.

I watched it because I assumed that Coppola would produce a superior movie. I was wrong. The movies begins well but does not end well. Just in case you don't know, SLASHERS ARE OUT!!! THEY ARE USELESS JACKOFF SIMULATED SNUFF FILMS.

This film degenerated into a slasher flick.

I have read other reviews which state that it could have been as good as Wishmaster (a very good movie) but they failed to mention that the reason Wishmaster was so good had nothing to do with the horror content. It was good because of the redeeming storyline.

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In Wishmaster the protagonist defeats the Djinn and saves her sister.

This is where Jeepers Creepers failed. In a fit of laziness the writers decided that in order for a sequel to be in the making, they had to kill one of the siblings.

This is pure nonsense, a supernatural creature, unlike the serial killer we thought it was, can come back under the right conditions depending on the background of its legend.

Therefore you can see how lazy the writers were because they made it easy on themselves by using a supernatural creature (who has different limitations that a human antagonist) and yet wrote it as if it were human.

Question: why didn't the sister tell the police where the creature had taken her brother so they could have rescued him?

Even so, the story would have been more exciting if the creature had taken just one eye, the boy was rescued and the sequel was about retrieving the eye. "The peeper returns!" or something like that.

Then the boy could get his eye back and start turning into the creature himself. And from there you could work out the rest of the franchise until everyone is back to normal.

Guys, use your imagination! You've got money, financing, backing, distribution, and this is what you do with it?

I really liked the brother/sister team. The brother was especially endearing, he had a lot of heart but his curiosity got the best of him and I was very sad to see him die.

The absence of the parents was a chilling touch because when he did die you felt the loss of a son or a brother. The "missing" notations on the wall of the police station was good too because it allowed you to feel the loss of so many other missing people, whose parents/relatives could not imagine what became of them.

This too bothered me, why didn't the sister reveal the creatures lair and solve all these mysteries and murders at once?

Somebody could have been seriously heroic.

As for the psychic, she was useless and with no legend background of the creature we did not have info that would have allowed the characters to defeat or banish him from this world.

What the heck was he doing here anyway? What is he, a left over extra from Dungeons and Dragons, or maybe a renegade Gargoyle?

Movies are supposed to inform, uplift and educate, the fact that they are entertaining is just icing on the cake. As an industry, some new benchmarks need to be set as to where we are going to go because this...this just isn't working.

We have seen better, we KNOW better and as viewers who spend money we EXPECT better!

Give us better!