Product Description

You can keep your doors locked. You can keep your eyes closed. But still, he'll get what he wants and what he wants is you. Brace yourself for "90 minutes of steadily mounting horror [that] delivers more than its share of honest chills" (The Baltimore Sun). From "the scariest opening sequence of any horror picture in recent memory" (Los Angeles Times) to "one of the gutsiest endingsto a film this year" (Dallas Morning News), Jeepers Creepers is the real deal in terror! On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens (Gina Philips, Living Out Loud and Justin Long, TV's "Ed") 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. But when they stop to investigate,they discover that the grisly reality at the bottom of that pipe is far worse than they could have ever suspected and that they are now the targets of an evil far more unspeakableand unstoppable 'than they could have ever imagined!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3394 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-01-08
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 90 minutes

Amazon.com
With confident style and low-budget ingenuity, Jeepers Creepers gets under your skin, provoking spine-tingling horror when college siblings Trish (Gina Philips) and Darry (Justin Long) encounter a flesh-eating demon along a barren rural highway. After a harrowing car chase that sets the movie's nerve-wracking tone, they investigate suspicious activity near an abandoned church, where a corrugated pipe leads to unimaginable horrors. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game against the regenerating demon, which feeds on fear--and selected body parts--according to a psychic (Patricia Belcher) who adds chilling portent to the routine climax in a besieged police station. Writer-director Victor Salva (Powder) emphasizes primal fear over logic, but plot holes are easily forgiven when you're scared out of your socks. A surprise box-office hit in late summer 2001, Jeepers Creepers will please even jaded horror fans with its back-to-basics frights. --Jeff Shannon

DVD features
On the DVD commentary track, director Victor Salva gushes over his cast and crew (especially the two young leads), discusses how budget concerns affected numerous aspects of production, and provides his response to the eternal question, "Why didn't the kids just drive away?" The feature can be played in either anamorphic widescreen or full-screen (pan-and-scan) format. --David Horiuchi

From The New Yorker
Produced by Francis Ford Coppola and directed by Victor Salva, this road-trip horror film (two siblings are relentlessly pursued by a fanged demon) develops into an effective and sinister ride. Lushly photographed, with a surprising number of jolts and surprises, it skirts the clichés of most fright entertainment with roller-coaster pacing and some inspired mordant wit. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

Nice Little Scary Flick
I remeber seeing Jeepers Creepers my sophmore year of college and thinking it was one of the scariet movies one I'd seen in the theater since Pitch Black. The film reminded of Spilberg first film Duel. The script is fast paced and the acting it top notch from the young cast.

Pretty Creepy
When I first got this movie for Christmas four years ago, I liked it even better than when I first saw it on TV. What really sucks is that some of the special features on this DVD aren't on here.

Director Victor Salva is a PEDOPHILE!
THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

LOS ANGELES TIMES

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY


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By Jim Herron Zamora
THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
October 25, 1995, Wednesday
News; Pg. A-1

Victor Salva, confessed in 1988 to five felony counts related to having sex with a boy he directed in a low-budget film.

The molestation victim, Nathan Winters, now 20, has decided to go public with his ordeal.

Salva confessed to having oral sex with 12 year old Nathan Winters in 1987 while directing the then sixth-grader in "Clownhouse," a film about three boys terrorized by circus clowns.

Salva was sentenced to three years in state prison, serving 15 months and completing parole in 1992, according to the state Corrections Department and court records in Contra Costa County. He is a registered sex offender in Los Angeles County, according to state records.

Laws in 46 states, including California, treat sex offenders differently than other convicted criminals in that sex offenders, once released from prison, are required to register with authorities in communities where they take up residence. This is because pedophiles are driven by a psychological compulsion that has typically not been cured by therapy, according to criminologists and prosecutors.

When police raided Salva's house, they found two homemade pornographic tapes, one showing Salva having oral sex with Winters.

In April 1988, Salva pleaded guilty to one count of lewd and lascivious conduct, one count of oral copulation with a person under 12 and three counts of procuring a child for pornography. At his sentencing hearing, a prosecutor said Salva appeared to seek jobs where he could work with children. Salva has written children's books and in 1985 worked at the Crawford Village Child Care Center in Concord.