Jeepers Creepers: Reborn (2022)

Say what you will, the original Jeeper's Creepers films, especially the first one, were master classes in budget horror. Everything that came after, hasn't lived up to the original. Jeepers Creepers Reborn, is, for my money, just another off the shelf, rather mediocre, knock off. The story largely overlooks the factors that made the original film, so compellingly chilling. The slowly building tension, the gradual realisation that the pursuer is something worse than a garden house variety serial killer. In other words, the film "creeps" up on you. This film plays more like a run of t…

I must admit I was a bit excited when the names Jeepers Creepers popped up as a new movie because the memory of the first and second movie. This one started good enough and was doing fine until the end. The ending was so poorly written and performed that it ruined the whole enjoyment of the movie for me. Without spoiling it for those who want to be disappointed, the facial expressions lifting the toothpick and using dart physics shouldn't be the end product of professional writers.

Wuchak

7.0

Oct 3, 2024

**_Some missed opportunities, but it’s not THAT bad_** A young couple travel to a horror festival in the area of Louisiana that’s infamous for the legendary Creeper. When the actual creature awakens, all hell breaks loose. The Jeepers Creepers Intellectual Property (IP) had basically been 'cancelled' due to the sexual crimes of the mastermind of the franchise, which paved the way for this reboot, "Jeepers Creepers: Reborn" (2022). It was made by a small studio in England trying to make a quick buck off the IP. This resulted in the production company of the two previous installments filin…