Jeepers Creepers 2

Jeepers Creepers 2 is a 2003 American supernatural horror film directed by Victor Salva, written by Salva, and produced by Salva and Sherri Chansen under the production companies Monster Pie Productions and United Artists. The film is a sequel to the 2001 film Jeepers Creepers, but features a largely separate cast. While it met with mixed reviews from critics at the time of its release, Jeepers Creepers 2 has become a cult classic overnight and is generally well-received for its visceral and graphic horror. The story takes place several years after the events of the first film, with a seemingly endless rivalry between two high schools, Dight Cemetery High and Carleton High. The intense feud manifests itself on the football field, but also seems to bleed into other aspects of their lives as young athletes display brutal and aggressive behavior, evoking a volatile animosity that's contagious and hard to control. Meanwhile, a horde of Creeper spawn is roaming the countryside, scoured and slaughtered by an apparent unending parental-like vigil that might have been conceived by some for safety reasons. However, their methods lean more towards violence and animalistic brutality that fuels and triggers their brutal assaultive mechanisms while evading lethal methods for their own family stability purposes. The very same vigilantes who saved them may be the source of certain problems linked to their own safety and very sustenance. Dight Cemetery High, home to a team of rugged heavyweight athletes, boasts an undying determination, stemming from seemingly relentless rivalry, to crush their historical regional foe Carleton High, whose proud athletes have earned regional accolades as being inviolable. However, their school is just about the 'head of the whip' point regarding cruel socializing, hence their athletes live in an atmosphere of social toxicity. On what would prove to be a fateful day, an aging and weary athletic bus is careening headlong through their hilly neighbourhood, their passengers from Dight Cemetery preparing zealously for their historic, crucial football match. They've been doing practically extensive team meetings, team talks on strategies, rehashing history on their past encounters, as well as hasty physical training sessions for over a week, creating room for overzealous athletes' arrogance that would eventually spin out of control. Hurtling down the same isolated rural route, they're thrown off course by an ongoing, heavy, torrential downpour that rapidly turns harsh hail and becomes a massive storm before suddenly crippling their vehicles. Ultimately reduced to a cramped, battered, frozen mass, in an unlit location devoid of basic care amenities, these brash rugged fighters now discover that their enemy isn't the unplayable ferocity from their rival school but the seemingly unsavory unmerciful bloodlust of the hordes of violent harbingers, the Creeper spawn. Crippled in the middle of nowhere with only a small amount of supplies and equipment to rely on due to lack of nearby hospitals, emergency centers, and adequate light supply for a safe journey ahead, they strain for rescue that may never arrive. Now more determined than ever to ensure team unity, they opt for maniacally brutal and often unorthodox methods for survival as they refuse to give in to a bleak prospect without putting the once-stellar sports rivalries to shame. However, in this desolate and war-torn world that frightens brutal hatred everywhere, their sports spirit gradually but quietly vanishes, gradually erased by haunting, abominable sights. They soon find out about these creatures' seemingly irresistible proclivity for decapitating living beings before violently devouring what's left immediately after the gruesome ritualistic execution. Finding themselves on the path where these animals' seemingly sinister proclivity for human attack and blood-thirst spreads, the desperate teenagers panic viciously across in desperate disunion, yet fail pathetically in every action-oriented strategy proposed. Chasing after the increasingly rapidly disappearing pack and watching the rapid decline in both strength and unity among the various regional groups gradually exposes what seems like a mindless, ruthless, hideous battle between opposing sets of people who would not hesitate to give each other either immense, reckless death or ultimately total oblivion. Their group numbers dwindle ruthlessly, torn and cut to pieces by unpredictable inhuman savage creatures feeding ceaselessly off fallen man. Ultimately, a lone Dight high athlete from the fierce bunch finds a resolute resolve within them to understand this monstrous world by choosing safety, that of Carleton. Stripped of even basic human emotion, their actions bring the group teetering on the brink of complete collapse. Led by the undercurrent of an apparent love affair between the female athlete, and the football player, they plan out a desperate daring assault against the raging fury that eats men mercilessly alive. Prolonging the struggle, this male-led and ultimately doomed high school football squad en masse surrenders their humanity. Within the cold harsh, chilling setting of heavy rain which incessantly blares, hundreds of creepy skeletons come out to wreak havoc on their seemingly devastated high school stadium. Driven out of one of the most gruesome confrontations of all time by unbelievable horrors that haunt the bottomless night, their spirited efforts devolve into chaotic pandemonium with near despair reigning over every soul inside. No respite seems to offer in this situation which does not offer room for doubt with the group members who, in the end, find cruel destruction at their door - they show sheer disdain for life that had always enthralled and lifted them. Stymied by harsh death beyond any solace or aid in despair, a lone remnant is able to see past life's tawdry and futile competitions long enough to see some faint glimmer of understanding in full abandon, revealing his clear unease about the horrific cycle the creature embodies and seems impossibly all pervasive.