I love the Jeepers Creepers franchise. But Victor Salva made too many mistakes in this one that you don't do in horror movies. Victor are you reading this?
1) Brilliant to show the Creeper in broad daylight, but you show not more than 5 seconds at a shot. Otherwise it just looks like a fat guy in a mask. If you are going to have longer shots, you need to make the Creeper itself move in a non-human way.
2) You make the Creeper WAY too powerful. Based on the earlier movies, the Creeper's success is based on how smart it is (been around a thousand years), that it can hide in plain sight (like a scarecrow on a pole), super strong, able to regenerate. and people don't believe the stories. This would be enough for any monster, BUT NO, you need to put it in front of some kind of hundred caliber truck mounted machine gun and... not a scratch. Now that is just fucking silly. We had to have SOME hope the Creeper could be stopped, like they almost got him in Jeepers Creepers 2. You could have had him ripped in half by the machine gun, then the upper half crawls over to a dead body and swallows it whole - too much for the effects budget? You can't make the monster unbeatable, because then it DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER what the protagonists do, its not going to work, it had no chance of working. You just get to see them die like it was on a conveyor belt. You killed the suspense.
Finally the guy that plays the Creeper is a great actor, but he needs to lose some weight for the next outing. The Creeper should resemble a scarecrow - lean, desiccated flesh, fast, lithe - something that looks like it could fly. Not a fat guy in a shapeless red shirt with his belly sticking out.
Also, one of the things that is great about the previous movies is the FRUSTRATION we sometimes see in the Creeper. Probably in the past, the Creeper went unchallenged in its feeding spree, it is arrogant. But times are changing. There is technology the Creeper is not familiar with. This could provide some awesome frustrations and hurdles for the Creeper. Its harder for him to hide in the shadows now.
But overall the worst for me was putting him in front of the machine gun with no effect, and the mask for the creeper looks like it cost about $20. You need to pay for some special effects for the face and the movement of the creeper, not just the wings.
Oh, one more - the truck shoots out that spear, we see the spear travel something like the length of a football field to get to the guy on the motorcycle. Then when it starts dragging the guy back, we see he is not more than 50 feet away from the truck - silliness.
Victor Salva, do better, I am counting on you!!! I will pay to watch the next one, please don't disappoint me! Or send me the screenplay, I will give you feedback for free!
1) Brilliant to show the Creeper in broad daylight, but you show not more than 5 seconds at a shot. Otherwise it just looks like a fat guy in a mask. If you are going to have longer shots, you need to make the Creeper itself move in a non-human way.
2) You make the Creeper WAY too powerful. Based on the earlier movies, the Creeper's success is based on how smart it is (been around a thousand years), that it can hide in plain sight (like a scarecrow on a pole), super strong, able to regenerate. and people don't believe the stories. This would be enough for any monster, BUT NO, you need to put it in front of some kind of hundred caliber truck mounted machine gun and... not a scratch. Now that is just fucking silly. We had to have SOME hope the Creeper could be stopped, like they almost got him in Jeepers Creepers 2. You could have had him ripped in half by the machine gun, then the upper half crawls over to a dead body and swallows it whole - too much for the effects budget? You can't make the monster unbeatable, because then it DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER what the protagonists do, its not going to work, it had no chance of working. You just get to see them die like it was on a conveyor belt. You killed the suspense.
Finally the guy that plays the Creeper is a great actor, but he needs to lose some weight for the next outing. The Creeper should resemble a scarecrow - lean, desiccated flesh, fast, lithe - something that looks like it could fly. Not a fat guy in a shapeless red shirt with his belly sticking out.
Also, one of the things that is great about the previous movies is the FRUSTRATION we sometimes see in the Creeper. Probably in the past, the Creeper went unchallenged in its feeding spree, it is arrogant. But times are changing. There is technology the Creeper is not familiar with. This could provide some awesome frustrations and hurdles for the Creeper. Its harder for him to hide in the shadows now.
But overall the worst for me was putting him in front of the machine gun with no effect, and the mask for the creeper looks like it cost about $20. You need to pay for some special effects for the face and the movement of the creeper, not just the wings.
Oh, one more - the truck shoots out that spear, we see the spear travel something like the length of a football field to get to the guy on the motorcycle. Then when it starts dragging the guy back, we see he is not more than 50 feet away from the truck - silliness.
Victor Salva, do better, I am counting on you!!! I will pay to watch the next one, please don't disappoint me! Or send me the screenplay, I will give you feedback for free!