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If the reptile brain in you, that ugly little cluster of cerebral cells where all the destructive urges lie, needs a good jolt, Jeepers Creepers offers you just such a treat.

The plotting is a tad generic, and the film feels long at a scant 90 minutes. But the movie is good enough to put a chill into the late-summer air.

Feels too rote to inspire real terror.

Jeepers Creepers is better setting things up than following through. It must resort to psychic mumbo-jumbo that has to be played straight and doesn't work.

The only mystery to Jeepers Creepers is why Francis Ford Coppola chose to stamp his name on this grade-Z movie as producer.

It's nice to walk out of a celluloid house of terror without feeling all cut up inside for a change.

A good way to find some genuinely creepy moments in a decade where they were short in supply.

One of the most terrifying horror movies to come along in years...

One genuinely gets the sense from the first hour of this film that Salva is exorcising some of his own demons.

One of those horror movies in which its characters do such unbelievably stupid things all the time that you literally want to shout at them.

The only thing about this movie that really made me shudder is that we are probably going to be deluged with a bunch of crappy sequels for it.