Taglines: He can taste your fear.
Three days after the events of the first film, a young boy named Billy Taggart assists his father in erecting scarecrows throughout a corn field, when one of the scarecrows suddenly comes to life and attacks him. As his father, Jack Taggart Sr., and his older brother, Jack Taggart Jr., rush to his aid, the scarecrow drags Billy through the field before sprouting wings and flying off, leaving the Taggart family horrified.
The following day (Day 23), a school bus carrying a high school basketball team and cheerleaders suffers a blowout. The chaperones inspect the tire, which they discover has been torn apart by a hand-crafted shuriken made of bone fragments. Back on the Taggart farm, Jack Jr. finds a dagger left by the Creeper. When his father inspects it, it inexplicably flies out of his hand on its own accord.
With the bus back on the road, Minxie has a vision of Darry Jenner, the Creeper’s victim from the first film, and Billy Taggart, who attempt to warn her of the Creeper. She then witnesses the Creeper blow out another tire, leaving them stranded alongside the road. They flag down a passing car, whose occupants promise to notify the authorities.
After The Creeper kills the chaperones, Scott argues with Deaundre Davis over whether they should leave the bus or not. After the Creeper jams the doors, Minxie has another vision in which Darry explains that every 23rd spring for 23 days the Creeper eats people before going back into hibernation. Minxie informs the others that its last visit was purely to pick out who it wanted.
After hearing police reports, the Taggarts investigate. On the way, they find the car from the passers-by, which has crashed, and the occupants missing. Taggart Sr. radios the students, who are ecstatic about imminent rescue. Shortly after the Creeper punches through the roof of the bus and grabs Andy “Bucky” Buck by the head. Rhonda impales the Creeper’s through the eye with a metal pipe, and it falls back onto the bus when it attempts to fly away.
The teens assume it is dead, but it decapitates Dante with its wing and replaces his head with Dante’s. Scotty pries open the bus’ doors and another argument ensues when he suggests surrendering the Creeper’s targets. The students leave the bus, and the Creeper chases them across a field, striking Jake in the head with a shuriken, and pinning Scotty to a tree with a dagger. Double D, Rhonda, and Izzy attempt to help Scotty, but the Creeper grabs him and flies off.
Jeepers Creepers 2 is an American horror film written and directed by Victor Salva, produced by American Zoetrope, Capitol Films, Myriad Pictures and distributed by United Artists, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer division. The film is a sequel to the 2001 horror film Jeepers Creepers. Francis Ford Coppola executive produced the film.
Directed by: Victor Salva
Starring: Jonathan Breck, Ray Wise, Nicki Aycox, Diane Delano, Marieh Delfino, Kasan Butcher, Tom Tarantini
Screenplay by: Victor Salva
Production Design by: Peter Jamison
Cinematography by: Don E. FauntLeRoy
Film Editing by: Ed Marx
Costume Design by: Jana Stern
Set Decoration by: Linda Spheeris
Music by: Bennett Salvay
MPAA Rating: R for horror violence and language.
Studio: United Artists
Release Date: August 29, 2003
