Melbourne Cup Day today, which means the whole of Australia is closed. It's just a horse race, for Christ's sweet sake, why are the schools closed?
Aaaanyway.
Watched Jeepers Creepers 2 last night, which wasn't as bad a move as you might think. The first one was somewhat a surprise (at least the first 30-40mins, which were just relentless), so my expectations for this one were higher than perhaps they should have been. It was better than the second half of the first one, I'll give it that, but the Creeper wasn't as effective. There's a difference between giving your monster a personality and turning him into Freddy Krueger, and this film went the Elm Street route. It just didn't work. What was nice was seeing a busload of asshole jock-head football players get rent assunder.
The Big Bonus, of course, was the inclusion of Ray Wise as a farmer whose young son was killed by the Creeper. Hell-bent on revenge and single-minded in his determination, Wise wore his "Bob" face through most of the picture. The ending left no room for a sequel, thank the gods, unless it's to be set 23 years in the future. Honestly, I'd dig a prequel. Set it in1977, say, or 1954. The Creeper's been doing his thing for hundreds of years, apparently, so you could almost set it in Colonial times. That I'd pay to see. As long as it's not made by Victor Salva. His Shirtless Boy motif got pretty annoying last night, and distracted me from much of the film. Normally, we'd have found the football team's serial shirtlessness quite funny. But when you factor in Salva's child molestation conviction, it's just... well, creepy.
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