Jeepers 2 Creeps Up
Scifi.com — Victor Salva, writer and director of the upcoming supernatural sequel film Jeepers Creepers 2, told SCI FI Wire that he set his movie mainly on a school bus stranded in the middle of the country, beset by a winged supernatural creature.
“At one point I said it felt like we were shooting 12 Angry Men in a toothpaste tube with a monster outside,” Salva said in an interview.
In the sequel to 2001′s sleeper hit film Jeepers Creepers, the creature is nearing the end of its 23-day feeding cycle, when it focuses on a busload of high-school basketball players, cheerleaders and students as its next victims.
“My template was [Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 classic film] Lifeboat, which I love, because Hitchcock pulled off this amazing drama on this little boat with 12 people, and you never get off the little boat,” Salva said.
“And The Birds, which I loved as a kid. … But there’s [also] a big piece of Moby Dick in it, too,” he added, referring to a farmer played by Ray Wise (Twin Peaks).
Wise plays a man who has an obsession with the creature, called the Creeper, because the monster abducted his young son.
Jeepers Creepers 2 opens Aug. 29.
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