Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Conventions of Horror Films Found in 'Jeepers Creepers'

02:05 Darry drove past a stop sign in Trish’s car (warning goes unheeded)

04:44 Van’s horn beeps loudly (fake scare)


07:38 Camera shows characters urinating (unfulfilled promise of nudity)

09:42 Van driver is caught throwing a dead body down a pipe (death in the first 5 minutes)

10:38 Cell phone has no battery (phone lines are cut)

11:05 Audience can see the car chase with the camera as the van (camera is the killer)

13:42 Character wants to go back to investigate what was thrown down the pipe (characters forget about a threat)

17:40 Sound comes from bottom of pipe (someone investigates a strange noise)

18:06 Convention is mentioned by Trish who is warning her brother about what happens in scary movies (characters forget about a threat)

19:00 Rats scare characters (fake scare)

19:10 After seeing the rats, Darry falls into pipe where the killer hides his victims (victim running from killer inexplicably falls)

21:55 “Dead” body grabs Darry’s ankle (fake scare)

22:40 No blood shown at all (poor death effect)

23:20 Person dies just as he was trying to tell Darry something (poor death effect)

25:11 Discovers the place he fell at, very old and not been entered for a while [this is proven by the spider webs attached to the beakers and bottles full of liquids] (secluded location)

26:50 Dead bodies have no clothes on (unfulfilled promise of nudity)

26:50 Dead bodies are stuck to the ceiling and walls (stupid discovery of corpse)

26:50 Dead bodies have no blood on them, bodies are straight and not flimsy (poor death scene)

27:39 Crow makes a noise (fake scare)

28:39 Dead bodies are stitched together (stupid discovery of corpse)

28:53 One dead body has stitches around neck which represents to the audience that she had her head chopped off (beheaded)

29:40 Van appears so Trish runs to car to go to Darry to let him know that the killer was there but the car wouldn’t start (car stalls or won’t start)

30:00 Trish finds out it’s not the van she is supposed to be hiding from (fake scare)

30:13 Darry comes back from the pipe and runs to the side of the car that Trish was sitting at just as she was starting to relax from the fake scare she got from the van she thought was the killers (fake scare)

34:11 Phone rings (fake scare)

35:15 Anonymous lady rings the Diner for Darry and Trish to answer the phone as she has seen something to do with them but they do not believe her (no one believes only witness)

35:50 Anonymous lady speaks about the license plate on the van, ‘BEATNGU’ and says to Darry “think about it”. This gets the audience confused as they don’t know what to think about (unresolved subplots)

37:20 Darry says “everything I said I saw, I saw” but Trish looks at him with disbelief (no one believes only witness)

38:01 Audience is told about 2 of the dead bodies that were saw last by Darry, they went missing around 20 years ago; this gets the audience confused as they don’t know how they could still have skin on them (unresolved subplots)

41:17 No non-diagetic sound, everything is quiet and then all of a sudden a car zooms past where the diagetic sound of the car is emphasized (fake scare)

42:41 Jeepers Creepers theme tune turns on the radio whenever the killer is near. This makes the title of the film seem very cheesy (bad title/bad premise)

42:41 ‘Wind Chill’ is a later film but has the same type of storyline as ‘Jeepers Creepers’, whenever the killer was close a Christmas song would come on. ‘Jeepers Creepers is the earlier film when these two films are concerned (rips off earlier film)

42:41 Song comes on but Trish won’t listen to Darry when he warns her (warning goes unheeded)

43:11 Bang on the top of the police vehicle whilst they’re on their way to the church to see what Darry had witnessed (characters forget about a threat)

43:40 Policeman is pulled through the roof of his car and gets his head decapitated (beheaded)

45:43 Darry and Trish have a chance to get away from the killer but decide to sit and watch him instead (characters forget about a threat)

47:01 Car doesn’t want to start when they want to drive away from the killer (car stalls or won’t start)

52:52 The killer breaks into the old woman’s house with all of her cats in there with him but he doesn’t harm any of the cats (pet miraculously survives)

54:12 Audience sees the killers face for the first time, used his hat as a ‘mask’ (killer wears a mask)

54:39 Car won’t start again after Trish and Darry reverse out of the old woman’s garden (car stalls or won’t start)

55:30 Trish tries to hit the killer with her car but he starts to run up and down the car and tries to do flips off it! (bad premise)

56:41 – 57:49 Trish runs the killer over several times to make sure he’s dead. They sit in the car and watch for a few seconds to see that the killer starts to move (killer doesn’t stay dead)

58:34 Car won’t start again. Trish says, “I don’t know how much farther this car can go” (car stalls or won’t start)

01:01:32 The anonymous lady turns up at the police station and tells Trish and Darry that she saw everything that had happened to them with the killer in her dream (dream sequence)


01:04:18 All the power in the police station goes out (power is cut)

01:04:46 Police officers mentions about the building going on a lock down, the killer is inside the building at this point (victim locks self in with killer)

01:07:10 Policeman reports to another officer about the killer to have been feeding on one of the prisoners, all of the police officers head upstairs to check it out (someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door)

01:09:17 Police officer is bitten by the killer and blood sprays from him, the killer bites his heart out (blood fountain)

01:09:57 Police officers hear the sound of the killer swallowing something (someone investigates a strange noise)

01:13:31 Trish and Darry are in the same room as the killer, there is just one mirror that is separating them (victim locks self in with killer)

01:15:40 Trish shouts at the killer to take her as it is her that the killer wants, not Darry (characters forget about a threat)

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