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Jeepers Creepers & Jeepers Creepers 2
I like the first film quite a bit. The creeper is never over-exposed (always in shadows), and for a majority of the film you don't really get to see much of him (a far-away shot, a shot of a certain body part, etc...) which adds to the fear the Creeper emits. What you imagine in your mind is always more frightening that what you see on film. Director's need to learn this. There are also a handful of good suspenseful scenes. I thought the introductory scenes were very well done, as were the scenes in which the police are trailing them, and the scene in which they visit the cat lady. In the 2nd film, and in the ending of the first, they try and make the Creeper technical. An artist, if you will... he listens to records, he fashions weapons complete with engravings and high-detail... etc. This just took me out of it. If he gets 23 days to eat every 23 years, I wouldn't spend a good 15 of those days carving beautifully constructed daggers out of bone. I would much prefer very crude weapons, or none at all. The 2nd has some equally great scenes (mainly... the creeper attacking them whilst in the bus, at night) However... the 2nd film's negatives far outweigh it's positives... The biggest thing which ruined the film for me, is that the director felt the need to visualize his fantasies. This was done in the first film, just a tad. You had the camera glorifying Darry's body quite a bit, and you had the brother and sister pee scene. The second one ramps it up. Three cheerleaders (what a team...) and a bus full of shirtless, sweaty, muscular jocks. Singing a song with the lyric "COCK." Then you have them sunbathing on the top of the bus, and two full-on scenes of group piss parties. One scene which depicts a player fully uncloth, piss on another's shoes, while talking about homosexuality. You also have a deleted scene in which one player speaks about "jacking." It's all done very blatantly... And if you aren't aware, the director is a convicted pedophile. My guess is he prefers males over females, and has a watersports fetish. Not only does the above ruin the film... but you have a fucking idiotic character (Scottie) who I disliked so much that I refuse to watch any other film that he acts in (I just can't look at him without wanting to punch the screen.) He whines, he's racist, he's homophobic, and he's MR. I run the show. He's just idiotic and I hate him. Plus he looks like a knob. The film is also packed with too much Izzy or Isn't He, and Token White Boy speeches. WE GET THE POINT. Plus the whole action aspect of it kinda... well, yeah... Don't bother with the 2nd. 
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How funny... I'm on a Hitchcock kick. Just found the Vanity Fair photoshoot where they photographed classic scenes with modern stars. Using Jodie Foster / The Birds as my desktop now. I really need to find that Masterpiece boxset...
I'm absolutely dying to see Rear Window.
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Dead Floor and The CampusHouse.com
(from the film fest link)
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The General (1926)
Keaton's best picture. Hilarious in every which way, and absolutely one of the greatest of all American comedies. The Lost Weekend (1945) Terrifying. Wilder's visual portrayel of heavy alcoholism is so starkly believable and disturbingly effective it's unbelievable.
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
>>: B+ Sleuth (2007)  >>: B Flight of the Innocent (1992) >>: B Silk (2007) >>: C
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Blood from the Mummy's Tomb.
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