Thursday, July 31, 2008

Jeepers Creepers

There are movies that have no explanation for their contents; they simply go forward without needing to explain the mechanism or background for the story. The two easiest examples of this that come to mind are Cube and Colverfield to some degree. In Cube, the characters wake up in the cube and its never explained what it is or why it is. This works because A) it’s a good movie, will made and cohesive and B) because is a character study.
Jeepers Creepers somehow attempts to do this and fails horribly. A creature is going around killing the inhabitants of a small town trying to get to the Apple ad guy Justin Long, and when he finally does get his prey that’s it, end of the show. It is a statement to the low quality of the movie that my first inclination as to why there is no exposition of the reason behind the killer was because they forgot to put it in, not because it was an artistic choice.

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