2001 · horror · slasher · monster
Jeepers Creepers
Directed by Victor Salva1h 30m2001
On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.
Our read: Jeepers Creepers (2001) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · slasher · monster entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / slasher, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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