History YMMV / JeepersCreepers

%%* AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9io1A5zA6M "Salvay's simply awesome horror score"]]

** Jezelle herself, for having NewPowersAsThePlotDemands, with her psychic powers having no explanation or build up and only existing to be a plot device.

%%* TheWoobie: Darry and Jezelle from the first film, and Minxie, Rhonda, Bucky and Jack Sr. from the second film.

* TheScrappy: Trish, for her treatment of Jezelle.

* HellIsThatNoise: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmohO7aK--U HONK HOOOOOONK!]]

* FirstInstallmentWins: The original is generally seen as being much creepier than the sequel due to the lighting, atmosphere and other horror elements. The fact that the Creeper is shown more in the sequel also kills the scary factor somewhat. There are also other factors that make the sequel seem more like a generic teen horror film than the previous film. However, as mentioned below, the sequel does have its fans.

* AwesomeMusic: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9io1A5zA6M "Salvay's simply awesome horror score"]]

* UglyCute: For some, the Creeper.
* TheWoobie: Darry and Jezelle from the first film, and Minxie, Rhonda, Bucky and Jack Sr. from the second film.

** The fact that the murder church from the first was based on a real killer's hideout helps it to be based in reality and thus scarier.

* {{Sequelitis}}: The second film was not as well received as the first.
** Ironically, the whole premise of The Creeper ("every 23 years, for 23 days, it feeds") was written to avert this very thing, which led to ''Jeepers Creepers 2'' to be set ''days'' after the first. The third film, however, will be set 23 years later.

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: There are those who feel that the second, while less subtly spooky, was far more thrilling and entertaining. It helps that, while we see the Creeper more often, the fact that it strikes from the air and disappears just as quickly made it more frightening.

* TheWoobie: Darry and Jezelle from the first film, and Minxie, Rhonda, Bucky and Jack Sr. from the second film.

* [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim Why Don't You Just Destroy the Corpse?]]: Jack Sr. beats the Creeper at the end of the second film, but only because the Creeper had to hibernate right then. Jack is GenreSavvy enough to believe the story that he will wake up in another 23 years. Rather than do the sensible thing and try to destroy the corpse so utterly that any revival will be impossible, Jack nails the corpse in his barn as a tourist attraction and makes sure that he'll be there to strike it down when it wakes up. Even if it is dessicated as all hell, there's really no excuse for even giving the thing a remote chance of escaping capture when you have more than two decades to perform every conceivable form of torture and/or mutilation on a being you know for a fact cannot retaliate.

* OneSceneWonder: The axe the Creeper uses to cut off Gideon's head is never seen again for the rest of the film or in the sequel, aside from its brief appearance as one of the weapons that landed on Trish's car after CarFu'ing the Creeper. Also shown in the Creeper's hand on the third film's poster.
** The Cat Lady.

* FirstInstallmentWins: The original is generally seen as being much creepier than the sequel due to the lighting, atmosphere and other horror elements. The fact that the Creeper is shown more in the sequel also kills the scary factor somewhat. There are also other factors that make the sequel seem more like a generic teen horror film than the previous film.

* ParanoiaFuel

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The Creeper is incredibly popular with fans.

* UnfortunateImplications: Due to director Victor Salva's past conviction for child molestation, some viewers were ''extremely'' uncomfortable with the opening scene of the second movie (in which Billy is snatched by the Creeper).
** This also makes a scene in the first movie (the Creeper goes through and sniffs Darry's underwear) even more unsettling.
** Then again, just about any scene with the Creeper becomes uncomfortable with that knowledge in hand.

* CompleteMonster: The Creeper in contrast with many mute monster predators is more emotional and it's implied he doesn't kill and/or eats people just for feeding himself but he probably [[ForTheEvulz has fun in doing it]]. Just look the SlasherSmile he has on his face when he's about to do something horrible.

* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Darry]] being snatched by the Creeper is made utterly heart-wrenching by [[spoiler:Trish's]] horrified, anguished screams. Prior to that, [[spoiler:her begging the Creeper to [[TakeMeInstead take her instead of Darry]] can also produce this reaction.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Darry:''']] ''Don't you... don't you be a hero!!''

* FridgeHorror: okay, the first film ends with [[spoiler: Darry getting his eyes eaten, while he's still alive]]. Well,back at the scene in the cafeteria, he entered Darry and Trish's car, and went for his clothes. It's somewhat implied that he maybe was sniffing ''Darry's underwear.'' [[spoiler: Guess that the eyes weren't the only thing he was tearing off the boy at the end of the movie.]]
* FridgeLogic:
** How does a monster that could never remotely pass as human ''get a vanity license plate''?
*** If he knows enough about auto-mechanics to soup his truck's engine up to the point of going 100mph, it's not unlikely that he knows how to make his own plates.
** If the monster has to eat parts of people to repair the corresponding parts of itself, then how is it supposed to repair damage to its ''wings''?
*** In the second film, the Creeper replaces his ruined head with [[spoiler: that of one of the students]]. The screeching appendage that grasps the new head and incorporates it into the Creeper's body implies that the Creeper is more than just an assemblage of human body parts that need replaced.
*** According to its page on TheOtherWiki, the Creeper's wings and clawed hood are a separate, nigh-indestructible entity.
** If Darla's head was never found according to the backstory, her headless body must have been left at the scene. So what's with the body with her head sewn on in the House of Pain? If the Creeper just attached it to a spare, headless, female body he had lying around, he just may have spent one of his previous hunting seasons wearing a female head!

* FetishFuel: Plenty, if you can see past the horror and {{Squick}}.

* HellIsThatNoise: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUFv8mIMlgI HONK HOOOOOONK!]]

* [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim Why Don't You Just Destroy the Corpse?]]: After Jack severely injures the Creeper at the end of the second movie, instead of doing the sensible thing and chopping the body to pieces and/or setting the pieces on fire, he ''stitches it back together'' and uses it as a tourist attraction, knowing it might reanimate 23 years later. Jack had proven to be incredibly BadAss throughout the movie, but that decision alone may prove him to be TooDumbToLive.
** [[InsaneTrollLogic Unless]] he figured it would [[NighInvulnerable come back]] no matter what and it was better to have it somewhere he could keep an eye on it.
*** Considering that it can apparently rip limbs off of other people and then stick them onto itself and have them instantly grow together, id be worried that each part would grow a new monster if there were multiple parts