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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jezelle, while looking right at [[spoiler:Darry]]:

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* JumpScare: The first blare of the truck's horn. Also, the scene following Darry's discovery in the church basement - [[spoiler:Trish desperately attempts to start her car after she sees what she initially thinks is the Creeper truck returning to the church, only to slump back, relieved, when it turns out to be a different vehicle. Cue Darry suddenly slamming himself against the car window, completely scaring the crap out of Trish (and the audience).]]

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The first blare of the truck's horn. Also, the scene following Darry's discovery in the church basement - [[spoiler:Trish desperately attempts to start her car after she sees what she initially thinks is the Creeper truck returning to the church, only to slump back, relieved, when it turns out to be a different vehicle. Cue Darry suddenly slamming himself against the car window, completely scaring the crap out of Trish (and the audience).]]

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* FingerWag: The Creeper does this towards someone in the film's trailer.

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* FingerWag: The Creeper does this towards someone in the film's trailer.cop that was escorting the tow truck driver, after he's already grabbed the latter.


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* MadeOfIndestructium: The Creeper's van is armored to the point that anti-aircraft rounds just bounce off the thing, including its tires.
* TheUnReveal: We're not told precisely what the Creeper is, only that it's more important that it's very old. Nevertheless, the secret is sufficiently important for the Creeper to be extremely pissed that someone knows it.
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Followed by ''Film/JeepersCreepers2'' in 2003. A third movie, ''Jeepers Creepers 3'' (previously thought to be titled ''The Creeper Walks Among Us'' or ''Jeepers Creepers 3: Cathedral'') - and possibly a fourth movie - was announced by MGM, but remained in DevelopmentHell for years. Shooting finally started in 2016, with the film receiving an announced one-night-only release on September 26, 2017. Demand sufficed for a re-showing on October 4, followed by a two-night showing on Syfy for the pre-Halloween weekend.

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Followed by ''Film/JeepersCreepers2'' in 2003. A third movie, ''Jeepers Creepers 3'' (previously thought to be titled subtitled ''The Creeper Walks Among Us'' or ''Jeepers Creepers 3: Cathedral'') ''Cathedral'') - and possibly a fourth movie - was announced by MGM, but remained in DevelopmentHell for years. Shooting finally started in 2016, with the film receiving an announced one-night-only release on September 26, 2017. Demand sufficed for a re-showing on October 4, followed by a two-night showing on Syfy for the pre-Halloween weekend.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Addison trips one of the Creeper's own booby-traps on him so she can escape from the van. Michael fires the minigun at the Creeper's van, but ricochets kill both Michael and his driver without penetrating the van's armor.

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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Addison trips one of the Creeper's own booby-traps on him so she can escape from the van. Michael fires the minigun massive anti-aircraft gun at the Creeper's van, but ricochets kill both Michael and his driver without penetrating the van's armor.
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* ChekhovsGun: The amputated Creeper hand that falls from above in the opening scene.


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* VerticalKidnapping: Several, including one of a motorbiking youth in mid-jump.
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* UrbanLegend: It's implied that the Creeper's exploits are better-known among the locals than previous films had acknowledged, although the teenagers are too young to have lived through a previous round of attacks and assume it's this trope.

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Followed by ''Film/JeepersCreepers2'' in 2003. A third movie, ''Jeepers Creepers 3: Cathedral'' (previously thought to be titled ''The Creeper Walks Among Us'') - and possibly a fourth movie - was announced by MGM, but remained in DevelopmentHell for years. Shooting finally started in 2016, with the film scheduled for release in 2017. Interestingly, the script for the third movie apparently [[WordOfGod sets up a TV series]].

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Followed by ''Film/JeepersCreepers2'' in 2003. A third movie, ''Jeepers Creepers 3: Cathedral'' 3'' (previously thought to be titled ''The Creeper Walks Among Us'') Us'' or ''Jeepers Creepers 3: Cathedral'') - and possibly a fourth movie - was announced by MGM, but remained in DevelopmentHell for years. Shooting finally started in 2016, with the film scheduled for receiving an announced one-night-only release in on September 26, 2017. Demand sufficed for a re-showing on October 4, followed by a two-night showing on Syfy for the pre-Halloween weekend.

Interestingly, the script for the third movie apparently [[WordOfGod sets up a TV series]].



* FingerWag: The Creeper appears to do this towards someone in the film's trailer.

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* BerserkButton: It's only when the Creeper's enemies leave it a message saying "We know what you are" that it ''really'' voices anger.
* FingerWag: The Creeper appears to do does this towards someone in the film's trailer.trailer.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Addison trips one of the Creeper's own booby-traps on him so she can escape from the van. Michael fires the minigun at the Creeper's van, but ricochets kill both Michael and his driver without penetrating the van's armor.
* {{Interquel}}: The film's events take place between the first and second films.


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* WhoYouGonnaCall: Tashtego's crew have been waiting 23 years for the Creeper's return so they can avenge their loved ones, and have been training in tactics and weaponry they hope can take the creature down.
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* WeaponizedCar: More like ''booby trapped'' car; the Creeper's "{=BEATNGU=}" van scores about as many on-camera kills as the Creeper does!

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* WeaponizedCar: More like ''booby trapped'' car; the Creeper's "{=BEATNGU=}" "[=BEATNGU=]" van scores about as many on-camera kills as the Creeper does!

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* DeadGuyJunior: According to the synopsis for the upcoming third film, [[spoiler:Trish has a son named after Darry.]]

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* DeadGuyJunior: According to the synopsis for the upcoming third film, [[spoiler:Trish has a son named after Darry.]]
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* {{Flashback}}: To the Creeper's hunts in [[TheWildWest The Old West]].

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* {{Flashback}}: To WeaponizedCar: More like ''booby trapped'' car; the Creeper's hunts in [[TheWildWest The Old West]].
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''Jeepers Creepers'' is a 2001 horror/monster movie directed by Victor Salva, and starring Justin Long, Gina Philips, and Jonathan Breck. [[TitledAfterTheSong It takes its name from the song "Jeepers Creepers"]], which features in the movie.

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''Jeepers Creepers'' is a 2001 horror/monster movie directed by Victor Salva, and starring Justin Long, Creator/JustinLong, Gina Philips, and Jonathan Breck. [[TitledAfterTheSong It takes its name from the song "Jeepers Creepers"]], which features in the movie.
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''Jeepers Creepers'' is a 2001 horror/monster movie directed by Victor Salva, and starring Justin Long, Gina Philips and Jonathan Breck. [[TitledAfterTheSong It takes its name from the song "Jeepers Creepers"]], which features in the movie.

The movie centers around two siblings, Darius "Darry" and Patricia "Trish" Jenner, as they take the scenic route home from college in Trish's [[TheAllegedCar banged-up old car]], and their strange and frightening encounter on the lonely highway with what seems to be a [[DrivesLikeCrazy crazed, obnoxious driver]] of an ominous green truck, who attempts to run them off the road. Later, from a distance, they witness the driver of the truck, dumping what appears to be bodies wrapped in bloodstained bags down a pipe, adjacent to an abandoned church. Seeing them, the driver of the truck engages the two in a terrifying road chase, but they manage to escape. Darry, against Trish's wishes, decides to go and investigate the old church in case there may be someone alive, only to make a horrific discovery. Much later, they discover that the driver of the truck is not initially as he seems...

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''Jeepers Creepers'' is a 2001 horror/monster movie directed by Victor Salva, and starring Justin Long, Gina Philips Philips, and Jonathan Breck. [[TitledAfterTheSong It takes its name from the song "Jeepers Creepers"]], which features in the movie.

The movie centers around two siblings, Darius "Darry" Darry Jenner (Long) and his sister Patricia "Trish" Jenner, (Philips), as they take the scenic route home from college in Trish's [[TheAllegedCar banged-up old car]], and their strange and frightening encounter on the lonely highway with what seems to be a the [[DrivesLikeCrazy crazed, obnoxious driver]] of an ominous green truck, who attempts to run them off the road. Later, from a distance, they witness the driver of the truck, dumping what appears to be bodies wrapped in bloodstained bags down a pipe, adjacent to an abandoned church. Seeing them, the driver of the truck engages the two in a terrifying road chase, but they manage to escape. Darry, against Trish's wishes, decides to go and investigate the old church in case there may be someone alive, only to make a horrific discovery. Much later, they discover that the driver of the truck is not initially as he seems...
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* PoliceAreUseless: Surprisingly averted, for the most part. The cops, while not entirely believing of Darry's story, do send a team out to the old church to check it out, and the Poho police at the end try their hardest to try and take the Creeper down.

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* PoliceAreUseless: Surprisingly averted, for the most part. The cops, while not entirely believing of Darry's story, do send a team out to the old church to check it out, and the Poho police at the end try their hardest to try and take the Creeper down. They still don't put much of a fight though, and mostly just gawk at the Creeper, and they ''never'' shoot it in time.
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--> '''Trish:''' "You know the part in scary movies when somebody does something really stupid, and everybody hates them for it? This is it!"
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Followed by ''Film/JeepersCreepers2'' in 2003. A third movie, ''Jeepers Creepers 3: Cathedral'' (previously thought to be titled ''The Creeper Walks Among Us'') - and possibly a fourth movie - have since been announced by MGM, but currently seems to be stuck in DevelopmentHell. Interestingly, the script for the third movie apparently [[WordOfGod sets up a TV series]].

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Followed by ''Film/JeepersCreepers2'' in 2003. A third movie, ''Jeepers Creepers 3: Cathedral'' (previously thought to be titled ''The Creeper Walks Among Us'') - and possibly a fourth movie - have since been was announced by MGM, but currently seems to be stuck remained in DevelopmentHell.DevelopmentHell for years. Shooting finally started in 2016, with the film scheduled for release in 2017. Interestingly, the script for the third movie apparently [[WordOfGod sets up a TV series]].
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* CutPhoneLines: The Creeper does this at the police station.

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** In the scene with the cops at the diner, the camera often focuses on Gideon's head. He gets decapitated very shortly after.



* InescapableHorror: Once the Creeper has your scent, it will ''not'' stop chasing you until it gets what it wants.


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* InescapableHorror: Once the Creeper has your scent, it will ''not'' stop chasing you until it gets what it wants.


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* WhamShot: The Creeper emerging from the Cat Lady's house... and his face is fully shown for the first time, revealing that he isn't human.
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* RegularlyScheduledEvil: The Creeper emerges from hibernation every 23 years and feeds for 23 days.
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* HeartInTheWrongPlace: The unlucky cop who gets his heart ripped out doesn't even keel over instantly, because the gaping hole through his chest is too far left to sever his spine.
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* {{Jerkass}}: [[AgentScully Trish]] comes across this way with regards to how she treats Jezelle. Though to be fair to her, it's mostly out of [[JerkassWoobie fear and panic]].

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* {{Jerkass}}: [[AgentScully Trish]] comes across this way with regards to how she treats Jezelle. Though to be fair to her, it's mostly trying to go in denial out of [[JerkassWoobie fear and panic]].
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* {{Jerkass}}: [[HystericalWoman Trish]] comes across this way with regards to how she treats Jezelle. Though to be fair to her, it's mostly out of [[JerkassWoobie panic]].

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* {{Jerkass}}: [[HystericalWoman [[AgentScully Trish]] comes across this way with regards to how she treats Jezelle. Though to be fair to her, it's mostly out of [[JerkassWoobie fear and panic]].
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* {{Jerkass}}: Trish comes across this way with regards to how she treats Jezelle.

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* {{Jerkass}}: Trish [[HystericalWoman Trish]] comes across this way with regards to how she treats Jezelle.Jezelle. Though to be fair to her, it's mostly out of [[JerkassWoobie panic]].
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* FullFrontalAssault: The Creeper is completely naked at the climax of both films. [[BarbieDollAnatomy He doesn't have any visible genitalia]], however. [[Squick\\Maybe he hasn't eaten any recently]].

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* FullFrontalAssault: The Creeper is completely naked at the climax of both films. [[BarbieDollAnatomy He doesn't have any visible genitalia]], however. [[Squick\\Maybe [[FridgeLogic Maybe he hasn't eaten any recently]].
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* FullFrontalAssault: The Creeper is completely naked at the climax of both films. [[BarbieDollAnatomy He doesn't have any visible genitalia]], however. [[Squick maybe he hasn't eaten any recently]].

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* FullFrontalAssault: The Creeper is completely naked at the climax of both films. [[BarbieDollAnatomy He doesn't have any visible genitalia]], however. [[Squick maybe [[Squick\\Maybe he hasn't eaten any recently]].
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* FullFrontalAssault: The Creeper is completely naked at the climax of both films. [[BarbieDollAnatomy He doesn't have any visible genitalia]], however. {{Squick//Maybe he hasn't eaten any recently.}}

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* FullFrontalAssault: The Creeper is completely naked at the climax of both films. [[BarbieDollAnatomy He doesn't have any visible genitalia]], however. {{Squick//Maybe [[Squick maybe he hasn't eaten any recently.}}recently]].
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* FullFrontalAssault: The Creeper is completely naked at the climax of both films. [[BarbieDollAnatomy He doesn't have any visible genitalia]], however. [[Squick//Maybe he hasn't eaten any recently.]]

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* FullFrontalAssault: The Creeper is completely naked at the climax of both films. [[BarbieDollAnatomy He doesn't have any visible genitalia]], however. [[Squick//Maybe {{Squick//Maybe he hasn't eaten any recently.]]}}
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* FullFrontalAssault: The Creeper is completely naked at the climax of both films. [[BarbieDollAnatomy He doesn't have any visible genitalia]], however. [[Squick Maybe he hasn't eaten any recently.]]

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* FullFrontalAssault: The Creeper is completely naked at the climax of both films. [[BarbieDollAnatomy He doesn't have any visible genitalia]], however. [[Squick Maybe [[Squick//Maybe he hasn't eaten any recently.]]
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* FullFrontalAssault: The Creeper is completely naked at the climax of both films. [[BarbieDollAnatomy He doesn't have any visible genitalia]], however.

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* FullFrontalAssault: The Creeper is completely naked at the climax of both films. [[BarbieDollAnatomy He doesn't have any visible genitalia]], however. [[Squick Maybe he hasn't eaten any recently.]]
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* TorsoWithAView: [[spoiler: One unfortunate cop has his heart torn out by the Creeper, leaving a large, gaping hole in his chest that the audience can see his horrified colleagues through.]]

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