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Post by ModdedCentipede on Oct 12, 2019 2:41:54 GMT
This week, we're out of the jungle and into the country side, where a different kind of predator is stalking the populace.  Year: 2001 Chosen by: MeleeMonkStarring: Gina Philips, Justin Long, Johnathan Breck Directed by: Victor Salva Written by: Victor Salva Produced by: Willi Bar, Francis Ford Coppola, J Todd Harris |
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Post by stratogustav on Oct 12, 2019 3:42:21 GMT
I have a friend that loves this movie, it's is probably one of his favorite movies ever.
I tried to enjoy it, but this genre simply doesn't do it for me, maybe I was too distracted, but I thought it was terrible.
I don't know why because horror games are actually fine.
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Post by Balder on Oct 12, 2019 10:05:42 GMT
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Post by Cervantes on Oct 13, 2019 1:41:13 GMT
I've watched it a long time ago, but as far as I remember, it was a very fine "cheap" horror movie. By cheap, I mean literally: it has only a few actors, the main location is the road itsef and almost no special effects. By keeping the premise simple, I think they made it work for the most part. It reminds me of films like Steven Spielberg's Duel (1971), which is also about a guy being stalked by a creepy, mysterious driver - that might be Spielberg's most underrated movie, by the way.
I remember liking Jeepers Creepers enough to give it a 4/5 (considering how well they faired with a low budget and a simple premise), and I also remember the ending being good in how bleak it was. Of course, I'm only going by memory, maybe the film sucks and I don't remember.
The sequel was abysmal, though.
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Post by Balder on Oct 13, 2019 21:30:55 GMT
Watched it and contrary to the rest of the CGR gang, I didn't find it to be the underrated classic many people suggest it to be. Here's a short review:
"I see that a lot of people think this is really good, however when I look at the average rating I can see what a reasonable score would be for this movie. While it is certainly not a horrible movie, I fail to see what is so great about it. It is just average at best. The monster is alright, and Justin Long is surprisingly good for what I expected him to be in a horror movie. I know him best from his sub-par comedy movies. Even though it is a very average movie, there are some things that annoyed me enough to not give it a 2.5/5, and those are the uneven volume and the ending. The volume fluctuates from being very silent to being obnoxiously loud, and then there is the ending... While it is not awful, it felt anti-climactic, and leaving it open-ended like that is cheap. Spoilers for other horror movies: There are some horror movies that can pull off endings like that such as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Halloween, but this is not one of them." 2/5
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Post by dschult3 on Oct 13, 2019 22:34:06 GMT
Watched it and contrary to the rest of the CGR gang, I didn't find it to be the underrated classic many people suggest it to be. Here's a short review: So what's more overrated then, Balder, this movie or the Blair Witch Project? |
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Post by Armored Core Raven on Oct 14, 2019 1:14:59 GMT
Love it. The truck the creeper drives is awesome.  It even has it's own website! www.thecreepertruck.com/http://www.thecreepertruck.com/ |
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Post by Balder on Oct 14, 2019 7:02:18 GMT
Watched it and contrary to the rest of the CGR gang, I didn't find it to be the underrated classic many people suggest it to be. Here's a short review: So what's more overrated then, Balder, this movie or the Blair Witch Project? Unfortunately I haven't gotten to that movie yet, but I doubt I'll love as I'm not a particularly fan of found footage movies. |
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Post by Cervantes on Oct 14, 2019 16:20:23 GMT
Balder - The Blair Witch is very different, though: it's one of the few where the "found footage" is really supposed to make the film look non-scripted, as if the actors were really being haunted. I like it, though it was really a bit overrated at the time - it was sold as a big horror movie when it is a slow-burn psychological one with a very low budget. By the way, as Jeepers Creepers was MeleeMonk's pick, I'm guessing it's more about the director than the movie (I think there was a thread about the director before).
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Post by Balder on Oct 14, 2019 18:42:09 GMT
Balder - The Blair Witch is very different, though: it's one of the few where the "found footage" is really supposed to make the film look non-scripted, as if the actors were really being haunted. I like it, though it was really a bit overrated at the time - it was sold as a big horror movie when it is a slow-burn psychological one with a very low budget. By the way, as Jeepers Creepers was MeleeMonk 's pick, I'm guessing it's more about the director than the movie (I think there was a thread about the director before). I do respect The Blair Witch Project a lot though. It's the most successful film investment of all time. |
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Post by centipede on Oct 14, 2019 22:44:38 GMT
Balder - The Blair Witch is very different, though: it's one of the few where the "found footage" is really supposed to make the film look non-scripted, as if the actors were really being haunted. I like it, though it was really a bit overrated at the time - it was sold as a big horror movie when it is a slow-burn psychological one with a very low budget. By the way, as Jeepers Creepers was MeleeMonk 's pick, I'm guessing it's more about the director than the movie (I think there was a thread about the director before). I do respect The Blair Witch Project a lot though. It's the most successful film investment of all time. It's true. The Blair Witch Project has the highest investment/output ratio of a film. "This film was in the Guinness Book of World Records for "Top Budget: Box Office Ratio" (for a mainstream feature film). The film cost $60,000 to make and made back $248 million, a ratio of $1 spent for every $10,931 made." -imdb |
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Post by MeleeMonk on Oct 14, 2019 23:04:59 GMT
Believe it or not I actually used to like this film a lot when I was a kid. But then, kids also don't know what's good for them and generally have shit taste when it comes to art.
The film stinks overall and has a lot of awful qualities, like abysmal dialogue, pacing issues, lackluster atmosphere (referring to how the creature isn't taken seriously), uninspired monster, incredibly stupid scenes, etc. So normally it would be a garbage-tier horror flick like Octopus 2 the River of Fear. But there are a very small handful of elements in Jeepers Creepers that I was genuinely impressed by.
(SPOILERS, for those of you who are souless enough to be willing to watch the works of a child predator anyway)
First and foremost, the set design was incredible and in fact transcended every other ludicrous aspect of this mediocre film. I've noticed a trend in Victor Salva's work where one or two elements are terrific and everything else is absolute crap, and that's true in Jeepers Creepers as well. It has some of my favorite scenery of any modern horror film, with the Creeper's lairs being stand-outs. The two I'm thinking of are the first lair located under the abandoned church with walls made from sewn together corpses, and the second lair in the basement of a rusty, derelict factory of some kind. The latter might not sound very exciting describing it, but the way its shot is truly interesting.
The one other aspect of it that truly unnerved me was Darry's blood-curdling screaming at the film's climax, when we see the inside of his final lair in the factory (or whatever the hell that weird building is). This is such an awesome detail but unfortunately Salva was such a god-damned, mother-fucking, piece-of-shit pussy that he removed it from subsequent versions of the film because it was "too intense" (or some bullshit excuse that I've heard fans report), so the only release that contains it is the VHS copy of the film. I can't even find the original/VHS version of the scene on Youtube right now. Talk about something that's hard to find.
I would almost recommend seeing the film for the ending scene alone, and under normal circumstances I would give this half-decent indie horror shlock 3/5 stars, but considering that the disgusting pig in the director's chair is a child predator who sexually assaulted an innocent boy, only got a few years of prison time for it AND was enabled by Hollywood to go on to have a successful film career, I am without a doubt in my mind giving this film a big rancid
1/5
I hate my dad for renting me this film and knowing who the director is now I wish I had never seen it. I would love it if Hollywood would enable ME to take a heavy mallet to this fat fuck Victor Salva's head and clobber away at his face until it was reduced to a pile of mushy brain matter. Nothing of value would be lost.
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Post by Cervantes on Oct 15, 2019 1:46:48 GMT
It has some of my favorite scenery of any modern horror film, with the Creeper's lairs being stand-outs. The two I'm thinking of are the first lair located under the abandoned church with walls made from sewn together corpses, and the second lair in the basement of a rusty, derelict factory of some kind. The latter might not sound very exciting describing it, but the way its shot is truly interesting. It's one of the few things that I remember well about the movie, the first lair especially was very well designed. Too bad I still don't remember much of the dialogue, I just remember not having any problem with it - but then, I was 15 or so, if it was bad I wouldn't have noticed. |
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Post by Balder on Oct 15, 2019 7:16:58 GMT
Again Maestro, you're scoring a person and not a movie. Learn to differentiate the two.
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Post by MeleeMonk on Oct 20, 2019 2:07:52 GMT
Again Maestro, you're scoring a person and not a movie. Learn to differentiate the two. I said, I gave the film a 3/5 under normal circumstances, but considering the director is a child molester I docked it two points, giving it an end score of 1/5. Take your pick Balder. Will you be an angelic soul and choose the 1/5 abysmal rating out of respect for the small boy who Victor Salva molested (good ending)? Or will you side with the entertainment industry and choose my OG score of 3/5 (evil ending)? |
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