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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.174.32 |
We watched this on the projector the other night and it's aged fantastically. It looks superb up on the biggish screen and moves around it like a dream. We forget it's comedy guy Justin Long in the film, and how so good he was he made us forget that lush lass is in it. It sort of peters out to wards the ned but you forgive it. I hadn't realised it was 11 years old. I remember talking about it here, on the old board, when it came out. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Another good 'un. The first half is brilliant, but it loses it's when when it morphs into an episode of Buffy, IMHO. Still a very good horror film, though. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.181.14.243 |
The early stuff in the film is superb - I love that shot as they drive past and the creature turns to watch them. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.17.211 |
I saw this in America with a VERY vocal audience and have never managed to enjoy it on subsequent viewings as much. The problem with going out to the cinema is that the audience are too quiet. Some of comments during the film: "He's dumber than a bag of nickels." "They always gotta do that slow look up to the ceiling thing." | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.166.172 |
I liked the last ten minutes a lot, thought the rest was pedestrian. But it's possible I wasn't paying close enough attention early on. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
The early parts are best, Joel. There's an almost visionary quality to the scenes when they enter the killer's lair, about 20 minutes in. There's a wall made of interlocking corpses, and when I first saw that it took my breath away. Sadly, the rest of the film didn't achieve the same level of visual poetry. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.196.60 |
I think I saw a different version! I don't remember anything weird in the first half-hour. The film seems to be posing as an orthodox thriller. It's only right at the end that the weird elements come in. Doesn't sound like the same film even. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Near the start, after the brother and sister have been hassled by the truck and they see him dumping abody ina well. Then the young guy climbs down the well and into the killer's lair...there's a wall of intricately interlocking corpses. Not ringing any bells? It's an amazing scene. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.106.120 |
Joel doesn't feel that a wall of interlocking corpses counts as weird. Maybe we're all jaded. I can't remember the last thing that really amazed me. I'm pretty sure it was on a plate, though. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.48.157 |
Did anyone like the sequel? I thought both films had some good moments, but the first seemed to have a more macabre atmosphere. It's been years since I saw them, though. I bought them recently for the equivalent of 75p each, so they're somewhere in my 'to watch' pile. Proto, I used to be constantly amazed (in my early days in Taiwan) by the things I saw turn up on plates! Not so much now. | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
Sorry I'm the minority here, to me Jeepers Creepers is utter US trash. Nothing weird there, and a pedestrian script. The monster is nonsense. Stop. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.164.1 |
Proto, I didn't see that image at all! Thinking back it was late and I may have nodded off for a few seconds, not from boredom but from fatigue. I obviously need to see the film again. | ||
| Lincoln (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.214.18.44 |
I'm with you, Giancarlo. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I'm a great fan of this movie! For me it is the finest Hollywood horror film of the last decade with the most memorable movie monster of recent times - frightening, otherwordly, implacable, unstoppable and with just the right amount of knowing humour in the characterisation adding that extra frisson of shivery delight. The sequel was a belter as well. 'Jaws' in the air with its very own Captain Ahab. Wonderful stuff with one of the most memorable final images in all horror. I make no apologies for loving both films but the first one is a masterpiece. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.142.199.132 |
I never used to like it till I projected it (honestly folks, buy a projector!), not even particularly wanting to watch it (the kids did). I was knocked out. Yes, it was hollywood, but it was also something of a machine that sucked you in. I remember not being crazy about the sequel but maybe I'll give it a go. Paedophile director Salva wants to make a sequel soon, with people from both films. Jeepers Creepers; Cathedral it's meant to be called. It's just a bit of fun, the first film, but atmospheric, beautifully shot and momentous fun. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.142.199.132 |
Proto - I hate talking in cinemas but what you describe is different - it's taking part in the film. I watched it with my kids and one of their friends and it blew them away. Fantastic experience. Do some films work better with crowds? Is watching films alone a sort of difficult experience? I don't like watching them on my own - I grow restless. I'd rather watch a film I wasn't crazy on with a group than a film I love on my own. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
The first film is seriously scary and brilliantly paced, the second is a great big fun, shout-at-the-screen adventure of the "who will be next" variety, thrilling from beginning to end. It's the Creeper, and his silence, that makes both films wonderful imo. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
"Do some films work better with crowds?" Definitely. Borat is an example. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
And 'Machete'...  | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.118.79.219 |
there's a wall of intricately interlocking corpses. Not ringing any bells? It's an amazing scene. It sure is. Unfortunately the rest of the film is a bit of a letdown. I wonder why the director or anyone else involved didn't see it that way? The 'demon' is presentable (as demons go), but ultimately laughable. Never watched the sequel. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
I think the creeper is one of the best and most imaginative monsters in recent cinema. I love both films. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
The first half of the film was very tense and entertaining. I thought it collapsed a bit when the Creeper's true form was revealed, especially as he had the same crappy, generic demon make-up common in a lot of mid-nineties to early-2000s horror (see Wishmaster, Buffy etc). Quite liked the ending, mind you. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Something we're in complete agreement on, Weber.  I loved the way the Creeper toyed with those kids on the bus, singling individuals out with nothing but a stare and a wicked grin. It sent shivers through me and managed to be darkly comic at the same time. One of the great movie monsters imo. | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.78.35.175 |
I prefer the sequel, it has more edge of the seat moments. And perhaps it's just me, but back then I thought that the director must be gay, because of the way how at the start of the movie the half naked boys on the bus roof were filmed. (not that this observation did anything to my appreciation of the movie) |