Keep reading to find out more! As far as is known, the Creeper is an ancient demonic creature that has been present for centuries. The earliest records date his existence back to the Aztec era. The records indicate that he might be immortal, although not necessarily unkillable. In a recent article, we have discussed the true-crime inspiration for some narrative elements of the first Jeepers Creepers movie, but what inspired the monster itself? Did Victor Salva have something specific in mind or was this creation completely original?
And while Salva certainly borrowed some elements from other works, the exact origins of the Creeper remain unknown and we can consider him an original creation. The name was, as we have explained in the above-linked article, borrowed from an old Louis Armstrong song, but that song had nothing to do with the creature Salva created.
And while this episode predates Jeepers Creepers — the movie debuted 31 years later — Salva never acknowledged a direct influence, despite the similarities. We know that he wakes up every 23 years for 23 days to feast on humans and that he has been on Earth for a long time.
Although it often wears a tattered black Trench coat, also donning a hat after he killed its previous owner, using these to disguise itself, The Creeper on closer inspection is shown to appear quite inhuman. It has wispy white hair, skin with a dark reptilian green color and a mouth filled with yellow fangs.
Around the top of its head are a series of finger like appendages connected to each by a thin membrane. While these are often pressed close to its head, when excited or angered they shall flare out, giving it an even more monstrous look. It seems to be incapable of speech, but in the first film, it was heard whistling the tune of " Jeepers Creepers ", as well as " The Farmer in the Dell " in the third film.
Prior to the events of the series, the Creeper was an immortal being who lived throughout the countless centuries in human history. In the comic books made to accompany the Jeepers Creepers films, the Creeper orchestrated a human sacrifice ritual during the time of the Aztecs, and when Europeans first arrived to the new lands years later, the Creeper wasted no time in killing and devouring the crew, thus making him responsible for the disappearance of the Roanoke Colony America's North Carolina.
Among other atrocities, the Creeper accidentally destroyed a civilization, killing all of its inhabitants, but expresses no sympathy towards his mistake. The comics also reveal the extent of the Creeper's powers, with having fragments of its victims' souls inside of his body.
The film chronicles a day in the life of siblings, Trish and her brother Darry Jenner coming home from college. As they drive through the North Florida countryside in their Chevrolet Impala, a mysterious driver in a rusty old delivery truck tries to run them off the road.
After letting the vehicle pass them, they later see the same truck, in the distance off the side of the road, with a hulking man sliding what looks to be bodies in old canvas tarps, into a large piece of metal culvert sticking out of the ground next to an old abandoned church. The driver, taking note that they have seen him, catches up to them in his truck and tries to run them off the road a second time, and succeeds. Afterwards Darry insists they go back and investigate. At the church, he orders Trish to hold his feet while he looks into the pipe.
Rats appear in front of him and he jerks and screams, causing Trish to lose her grip on his legs, and he slides down the pipe badly cutting himself. At the bottom, he finds a dying boy, with a huge stitch across his torso, he tries to tell him something but dies before he can.
He finds Kenny and Darla sewn together, along with hundreds of bodies sewn together, covering the walls of a massive cavern beneath the church. Darry can not reach the end of the culvert which looms above his head, so he looks around and finally finds a passage up through the church. Visibly traumatized by what he has seen, he and Trish flee the scene and stop at a gas station where they contact the police. While waiting for the cops to arrive, they are phoned by a local psychic, Jezelle Gay Hartman, who warns them that they are in terrible danger.
She even told them that the Creeper even likes to call its murder-situated lair the "House of Pain". She plays the song " Jeepers Creepers " on the phone, and tells them that when they hear that song, they will be in extreme danger. Badly frightened, they ignore her warning. Shortly after the police arrive and Darry tells his story word arises that the old church had gone up in flames and all evidence of any bodies has been destroyed.
Within moments, witnesses at the gas station claim to have spotted someone ransacking the siblings' car and sniffing all of the clothes they had kept in it. Trish and Darry rush out of the gas station with the police providing a security escort. As they travel they hear a newer version of the song, then police are attacked and killed by the mysterious driver of the old truck. While Trish and Darry flee the scene, the driver loads the policeman's bodies into his truck. Darry and Trish try to get help from a local eccentric, but the mysterious driver catches up to them, the woman attempts to kill him with a shotgun but he jumps out of the way and into her house, she runs in and the driver stabs her through the torso with the gun and kills her.
They manage to hit the mysterious driver with their car, and run him over several times. After crushing the mysterious driver's body, they realized its inhuman nature when what appears to be a giant wing begins to flap around. Leaving it on the road, they drive to the local police station to wait for their parents, but Jezelle shows up and warns them they are still in danger. Jezelle tells them the true nature of the mysterious creature: it is an ancient demon known as "The Creeper", which rises every 23rd spring for 23 days to feast on human body parts which, upon consumption, form part of its own body.
She also tells them that it seeks out its victims through fear, and that by smelling the fear from Trish and Darry, it has found something it likes, but she does not know what.
The wounded Creeper attacks the police station and gains entrance to the cells, determined to avenge all the trouble Darry and Trish caused it. After it feasts on prisoners to heal, it is swarmed by police, but kills a number of them. Jezelle guides Trish and Darry upstairs, telling them one of them will die, screaming in the dark while the song "Jeepers Creepers" plays in the background. The Creeper heads towards Jezelle and sniffs her, but since she has no fear of him he lets her go, and heads off to find Trish and Darry.
The Creeper catches up and briefly being annoyed he couldn't smell Trish through a one sided mirror he breaks through the window and captures her and Darry. The Creeper smelled them unsure of who to take and a after a while he threw Trish away after finding she had nothing he wanted.
He smelled Darry more and found he wanted Darry's eyes which had seen its lair. Trish tries to reason with it, and attempts to give her life for her brother's.
The Creeper appeared to have consider it but ultimately decides that Darry is a better choice than Trish and readied its wings to fly. The police burst in and take aim, but the Creeper escapes out the window with Darry. The next day, Trish, contemplating Darry's fate, is picked up by her parents, and Jezelle returns home in regret. The final scene shows the Creeper in its new hideout, an abandoned meat packing plant, where the sounds of Darry's screams are heard before they stop as it goes deeper in the lair and the audience finally learns what the Creeper wanted: by sewing off the back of Darry's head, it has taken his eyes and replaced its own with them, leaving Darry's body an eyeless, motionless corpse tied up, with the Creeper looking through the eye holes while "Jeepers Creepers" is playing.
The Creeper is also shown walking with a needle implying he is going to sew the back of Darry's head on. After the credits, his truck is shown driving down the road meaning he is hunting for more victims.
However the speedometer was broken and she ended up going too fast and the Creeper stuntman was badly hurt in the collision and Justin was showered with broken glass. Victor Salva considered quitting filmmaking altogether after this accident but was reassured when he visited the stuntman in the hospital.
The name of the restaurant where Trish and Darry stop is called "Opper". This is a tribute to Barry Opper, producer of the movie Critters who collaborated in the film. The filming of the scenes on the road was very difficult to record as iguanas were always crossing on the highway. Trish and Darry interpret the license plates of cars. Their own car has the letters SVM on its license plate. It can be interpreted as "Save Me". Gina Philips Trish didn't know how to drive stick shift before the film so she took lessons.
On her first lesson all she did was stall. As "The Number 23" points out, 2 divided by 3 is. Hence the significance of Jeepers reappearing every 23 years for 23 days. The Creeper's skin is gray in the first movie but black in the sequels. Tom Tarantini portrays the car thief named Roach in the first installment and the assistant basketball coach in the second installment, Jeepers Creepers 2 He also stood in for Justin Long in some scenes of this movie. The film's makeup team was assisted by forensic makeup artists for the scene where Darry finds the young man dying inside the Church.
Victor Salva ordered MGM who wanted to use practical special effects like puppets and animatronics. However the bat wings that were made for the headquarters scene were very heavy so CGI was used. While looking at the hand print on the cardoor handle, a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment has a shadow pass over Trish, followed by the sound of a wingbeat.
This comes before they discover that their pursuer isn't human, and has wings. The climax of the film takes place in the county of Poho, this is a fictional town created by Victor Salva for Clownhouse and besides being the county where almost all his films take place. At the Poho County Sheriff's Office, the missing person's board has 2 repeating references.
The references are: Dusty Beaver and Lady Lake. The film officially took place on March 21, This is confirmed in the use of Jeepers Creepers 2 , as Victor Salva created 2 fictional newspapers "Poho County Chronicles" and "Bannon Country Banner" where he emphasizes the disappearance of Darry Jenner and the cremation of the church.
In the end the newspapers do not appear in the film although the "Poho County chronicles" can be seen in the bonus material of the Jeepers Creepers 2 DVD as well as being available on Salva's official blog: Poho County. Inside Opper's restaurant is an arcade with a clownhouse theme, a movie directed by Victor Salva. In the scene with the cops at the diner, the camera often focuses on Trooper Gideon's head.
He gets decapitated very shortly after. The cop car was a Chevrolet Caprice 9C1. Justin Long pointed out in several interviews that the film did not even have an official premiere since the MGM studio did not expect much from it.
The name of the restaurant's waitress is Beverly, this in homage to the movie Terror in Beverly Hills Many people consider the movie to be set in Florida, when the movie was only shot there while the movie is set in a fictional location created by Victor Salva for several of his movies. Is this interesting? In addition, the sequels introduced the concept of its victims becoming a reluctant part of it spiritually, which is grossly contrived seeing as Darry and Trish were warned by the local nut rather than ghosts.
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