![]() ![]() The escape-room gambit is the ideal means of having the characters confuse fiction and gory reality with the full postmodern trimmings. The script has its hands full just mustering hammy gothic ambience and flat-footed quips: “I’d give my left arm!” “Careful – you might yet.” ![]() It quickly becomes clear that the new film, despite the genre-aware setting, doesn’t have the smarts to follow down the meta route of the recent Scream and Candyman reboots. With the demon only rearing his head every 23rd year, Jeepers Creepers: Reborn missed a trick by not plotting a release for 2024 (the actual 23rd anniversary). So it probably would have been a good time to pipe up when the couple win a stay at a bespoke Creeper-themed escape room. She’s also keeping schtum about her visions of the baby surrounded by freaky cultists and a fedora-sporting prowler (Jarreau Benjamin). He’s en route to the Horror Hound festival in Louisiana, with his girlfriend Laine (Sydney Craven), who hasn’t told him she is pregnant. The ill-fated seniors at the beginning quickly become another pair of missing persons chalked off to the Creeper, as recounted in a YouTube documentary being lapped up by horror fanboy Chase (Imran Adams). But Finnish director Timo Vuorensola bypasses the first film’s lean and highly strung qualities in a half-hearted attempt to update the franchise – now with no input from its original creator, disgraced director Victor Salva – for horror-savvy 21st-century punters. It reprises the original redneck highway setup in its prologue, with two pensioners replacing Justin Long and Gina Phillips. T he Creeper, from the 2001 horror film Jeepers Creepers, has always been in the Vanarama National League of cinematic bogeymen, but the batwing-faced old trouper still deserves better than this shoddy, aesthetically ugly reboot. ![]()
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