I can't think of one thing in here that's up to par with the first half of Jeepers Creepers Number One. It's a fair enough premise, though. A busload of kids trapped inside of a bus instead of just two running across the country. But it takes some good writing of characters to pull that off and writer/director Salva doesn't bother, neither do the young ensemble deliver. None of the characters on the bus have any life, they're just tiresome and stupid and one is even clairvoyant so she can explain the plot for the others. They're all dead meat, lunch in a lunchbox, and they deserve to be. There's a little more life on the outside, with Ray Wise (Leland in Twin Peaks) hamming up some action as a deranged redneck who has his son killed in the prologue and a giant harpoon gun nailed onto his truck. The Creeper himself has turned into a Freddy Krueger wannabe but without the jokes and the cool sweater.

Jeepers Creepers 2 feels tired and uninspired, as if produced just because it could be, not because anyone really want to. Director Salva have enough talent to make this kind of movie work, as proven by the first half of the first movie, but here he is firmly set on auto-pilot, give or take a couple of cool dream-sequences. If there will be a third movie, and it will be, he will have to work a little harder. In the land of sequelmania this feels more like Hills Have Eyes Part 2.

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