JEEPERS
CREEPERS
With
Justin
Long,
Gina
Phillips,
Patricia
Belcher,
Jonathan
Breck,
brandon
Smith,
Eileen
Brennan
Directed
by
Victor
Salva
While
film-makers
are
slowly
but
surely
putting
the
nail
in
the
resurgent
(or
rather
re-hashed)
slasher
genre
that
flared
up
in
the
late-'90s,
occasionally
a
good
one
slips
through.
In
this
case
however,
the
traditional
scenario
of
a
brother
and
sister
travelling
home
from
college
along
country
roads
get
handled
in
such
a
way
that
it
seems
fresh
and
exciting.
With
a
rumoured
tale
of
some
people
dying
and/or
disappearing
from
that
road,
the
expected
cherry
gets
popped
when
they
get
terrorized
by
a
beat
up
old
van.
When
they
spot
the
driver
of
this
van
(which
sped
past
them)
dumping
what
looks
like
bodies
down
a
drain
pipe,
things
get
creepy.
He
pursues
them
no
end,
but
they
lose
him.
Deciding
to
go
back
and
see
what
he
discarded,
things
get
even
more
freaky.
Our
villain
is
hardly
what
he
seems
and
the
fight
for
survival
becomes
a
desperate
one
as
the
horror
follows
them.
The
lack
of
music
for
most
of
the
first
part,
which
is
mainly
character
development,
adds
to
the
realism
within
this
gruesome
unreal
situation
into
which
the
director
sucks
you
-
anticipating,
but
yet
unexpectedly
so.
This
one
can
actually
get
close
to
calling
itself
scary
as
opposed
all
the
other
boring
shock
tactic
honkers
that
keep
popping
up.
While
it
follows
many
familiar
recipes,
at
least
the
style,
tension
building
and
awesome
villain
is
approached
in
a
invigorating
way.
PS.
You'll
notice
Francis
Ford
Coppola's
name
in
the
production
credits…a
result
of
its
more
classy
approach,
or
was
the
project
better
than
others
that
came
across
his
desk
or
was
he
attracted
to
something
fun
and
creepy?
5
/
B
-
PB
1
2
3
4
5
6
A
-
B
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C