Nefarious films tbdb

 

AKA:

Jonathan Breck

Was bastard in:

Jeepers Creepers (2001), Jeepers Creepers II

(2003)

So who the hell is he?

The first time we meet the Creeper he is

speeding a big dirty truck with the license

plate ‘BEATINGU’ down a lonesome highway

in rural America. Shortly after this he is seen

chucking some distinctly human sized bundles

covered in suspicious red stains down a pipe

into the ground. It’s a great opening which

unfortunately is very misleading as to the creature’s actual nature. It is not a psycho, sicko or serial killer neither is it a murderer, maniac or madman, nor is it any kind of human (alliterative or otherwise) but rather a great big bat. Hmmm…

Well, to be fair, the creeper is a little more than that. His origins and true nature are never revealed but we do know that he is a demon-like monster which looks roughly like a man (well, except for the massive wings and head appendages of course). The creeper is not the most active of bastards however and is only active for 23 days of every 23rd year. During his time of activity he eats as many people as possible, (and presumably learns how to drive and shops for vanity plates).

That’s not a knife…

The Creeper has his own natural weapons of teeth, claws, super strength and the ability to fly but he also seems to have more than a passing fondness for more traditional weaponry. He uses a great big axe thing to cut off a cop’s head at one point and at another he is thrown into the air when hit by a car, knocking lots of smaller knives out of his coat and onto the road below. Oh yeah, he also uses Batarangs. well weird throwing star things made out of bones and teeth but it’s a Batarang really all right?

Why, for the love of God, Why??!!?

The Creper has the unusual ability to regenerate his own body by eating pieces of other people’s. This handy little trick is how he manages to be so damn tough to kill. All he needs to do if he’s got a dodgy ankle is to eat somebody’s foot. If he’s got a busted head he just needs to have a chew on some other poor schmo’s noggin and bingo! A fesh one grows out of his chest.

It seems that not just any old body parts will do the trick though. He needs to sniff out the parts that he likes and in order to do this he must make people feel fear as there is something released in fear that tells him wether the person has anything he ‘likes’ or not.. This accounts for his threatening behaviour very conveniently. It still doesn’t really account for where a demon bat-thing that is only awake for 23 days out of every 46 years manages to learn to not only drive but also make the necessary mechanical adjustments necessary to supe up the monstrously fast demon truck in the first film.

So what’s the damage?

Judging by the weird tapestry made from hundreds of sewn together embalmed corpses that the Creeper keeps in his lair the damage is fairly high here. He has been at this for quite a while and he’s got the souvenirs to prove it.

As for on-screen killings, we see him chop a guy’s head of and then chew its tongue off, but the most memorable death is probably the one which gives the series its name – where’d you get those peepers indeed?...

It’s a million to one chance but it might just work…

When in doubt. bolt a huge harpoon gun to the back of an open-back truck and hit the road, that’s what my daddy always taught me. Well, he didn’t actually but if he was anything like Ray Wise’s character in the second film he would have and it would have been pretty good advice too as this is what finally brings the creepy one down. Actually come to think of it he really doesn’t do much creeping at all, maybe he should be called “the flier” or “the truck-driver” instead.

Though, come to think of it, that’d be shit.

Words of wisdom:

Like so many of his monstrous colleagues in the TBDB the Creeper is not much of a talker preferring weird ear-splitting screams to chatting about the price of medieval axes these days.

  By Matt Compton