Jeepers Creepers 3
(Victor Salva)
Convicted child molester Victor Salva delivered an enjoyable creature feature back in 2001 with the original Jeepers Creepers. It's hard to create a memorable horror monster these days, but I believe this film was able to pull that off. It was considered a success and garnered a lacklustre somewhat homoerotic sequel. It's been 15 years since we last saw the Creeper and my God do I wish he never came back. With this third entry, we have a disastrous train wreck of a film that is equal parts disappointing, insulting and dull.
Set immediately after the original film, the Creeper has taken off with Darry and left his truck.The police officers investigate the vehicle, but the darn thing is booby-trapped. They need to figure out a way to get in before he comes back. Somewhere else unimportant people are doing unimportant things. An old lady is talking to her dead son who was killed by the Creeper. Her granddaughter has a horse and is not willing to part of it even though they can't afford anything. Guess what, that darn Creeper does come back, looking poorly animated with CGI this time around and he kills some people.
This is a film that is so bad, that even die hard fans of the series will find it hard to find any saving grace here. Poorly constructed from the ground up, the writing is atrocious, the acting is laughably bad from everyone involved, but I'd like to bring particular attention to Chester Rushing, who stands above the rest as the worst acting I've seen in the last 5 or so years.
I couldn't stop laughing at the Bond-esque vehicle that the Creeper had. This, if I recall, comes out of nowhere. It almost seems like the truck has a mind of its own. It manages to shoot a spear attached to a cable out of the tailpipe. Imagine if Scorpion from Mortal Kombat was a truck. There you go.
The budget here is obviously low and it's painfully obvious with the badly produced sequences with the Creeper. Bad CGI, bad make-up and little action set-pieces. There horror is non-existent. NON-EXISTENT!!!!! There is nothing scary, thrilling, exciting, engaging, memorable...add more words here people. This movie just...is.
There are moments where I thought he was going to dive into the lore and mythology of the Creeper, but he doesn't. There are so many things that could have happened, but don't.
God....I hated this movie. I'm just going to stop now.