The Creeper



The Creeper is a fictional multi-homicidal character from the Jeepers Creepers movie saga. The Creeper is characterized by feeding on human organs, building its own hunting weapons with human parts.

Origin
The Creeper was a priest who made a deal with satan and did not comply, as punishment to stay alive he must replace the parts of his body that are worn or injured with other parts that he gets from people he kills.

He is a monster with human features, as well as; limbs, torso, and head. Its skin is similar to a very resistant greenish-gray bulletproof armor, with enormous wings similar to those of a bat, and with small cartilaginous fins at the edges of the head that are detached when it is usually furious, in some Sometimes he usually disguises himself as a scarecrow or as a man to catch his prey.

Jeepers Creepers (2001)
In the summer of 2001, two brothers named Darry and Trish Jenner return from college on a lonely road that runs through the state of Florida to spend the vacations with their parents, on the desolate highway, both are surprised because they do not see a car in 20 km. Trish turns on the radio and hears news that a snake-headed demon is on the loose, so to pass the time, they play at deciphering the meaning of the license plates of the few cars they see; Suddenly, an old and faded truck appears trying to pass them on the road, which Darry catches a glimpse of its mysterious license plate written: '' BEATNGU (which means to eat). ''

The brothers pull up to the side of the road, and shortly after, they see the same truck again and a sinister-looking man throwing two bloodstained bags down a pipe. Realizing that they were watching him, the man begins to chase them and ram them with his car, which is incredibly fast despite being very old; Darry manages to swerve to the side of the road and the old truck drives off. The two brothers argue, and Darry proposes to go back to the church to see if there was anyone alive who needed help. Trish objects, but she eventually agrees because if she were there, she would like someone to help her.

The strange man in the truck
The two brothers return to the place and realize that it is an abandoned church. Darry hears noises coming from inside the pipe; Trish holds Darry who begins to obey through the pipe, but some rats altered the situation causing Trish to release Darry so he falls right into the basement of the church, once inside, Darry finds a dying young man wrapped in The bag and soon he realizes that his entire abdomen has been cooked in a horrible way, he ends up dying, and later Darry observes dozens of corpses hanging together on the basement walls, Darry manages to recognize two corpses that were students at his university and that they had mysteriously disappeared on that road 23 years ago.

When Darry manages to get out, both brothers drive to a restaurant, where they see again the old truck whose driver accelerates; The brothers demand from a waitress named Beverly that they need to talk to the police but before calling the police, they receive a call from a mysterious woman who somehow knows them, and tells them that this man will not stop chasing them and that if they hear a song run, because that means that he is close and the police arrive at the place, Darry informs them what he saw in the church, and shortly after they realize that the man was at the gas station of the restaurant smelling Darry's clothes that it was in the car. After realizing the police officers take a sample of dust that was in the car of the brothers and the analysis indicates that this is dead skin and at that moment Trish observes that "something" has flown by the restaurant. The police escort the brothers to the police station, while the police are informed that the church is burning and that no one will be able to enter there for a while, then Trish hears the song through the car radio and the man appears. killing the two policemen. Darry and Trish, horrified, watch as the man smells the severed head of a policeman, and later, eats his tongue, tearing it out with his sharp teeth. The brothers escape, Trish and Darry realize that this man is a hideous creature, and soon they stop at the house of a lonely lady who has many cats to ask for a phone and call the police, the lady hears the screams of her cats, it was the creature that was eating them and they soon realize that the creature is disguised as a scarecrow in the lady's yard.After this the lady leaves her house with a shotgun trying to threaten the creature, but when shooting the creature enters his house and finally kills the old woman and Trish and Darry run to their car, Trish runs over the creature with the car few times leaving it immobile. The brothers see how the creature takes enormous wings from its back, trying to move without success.

The church of evil
The brothers escape to the police station, where they meet a woman named Gezelle, a seer who spoke to them on the phone, she tells them that what attacked them is not a man. He is an ancient demon who has been alive for centuries; he wakes up every 23 years and feeds on human beings for 23 days. After the story: Trish, Darry and Gezelle flee to the police headquarters but what they did not know is that after running over the creature, she was chasing them in her truck until they reached the headquarters.

The seer continues to explain to the brothers about "The Creeper" while he begins to attack and eat parts of the body of many of those incarcerated in the headquarters cells, thus managing to regenerate their parts.

Gezelle told the two brothers to hide but  The Creeper  found them in an interrogation room, so they try to leave but the creature destroys the door, grabs them by the neck, smells them both, pulls Trish to one side, staying with Darry and trying to tear out his eyes but at that moment the police arrive, he spreads his wings and flies away taking Darry with him. The next day Trish is picked up by her parents while she observes that a crow is flying near the police station, after this, the same crow arrives at a sewage plant, where The Creeper feeds on Darry's remains, while observing him with his new eyes and prepares the body for his new collection of corpses.

Jeepers Creepers 2: The Messenger (2003)
It has been 3 days after the events of "Jeepers Creepers", it is now supposed to be the 22nd day of the feeding ritual of the abominable creature known as "The Creeper." `` This cannibal demon from ancient times has yet another day of human flesh left and will disappear again, and wait in hibernation until his next hunting season in 23 years. The movie opens with a young man named Billy Taggart helping his father compose scarecrows across a cornfield, when out of surprise one of the scarecrows suddenly comes to life and attacks him! His father, Jack Taggart, and his older brother, Jack Jr, try to help him but the scarecrow drags Billy across the field and when he opens his wings he flies away, leaving his father and older brother of he traumatized. Note: '' This occurs on the same afternoon that brothers Trish and Darry pass the 20km. ''

A day after what happened in the cornfields, a bus that transports the players of the school team  Bannon , is stranded because The Creeper, throws a kind of sharp cross and rips the tires sharply, so they remain Stuck on Highway 9 East in Kissell County, meanwhile players and cheerleaders hear "a story about a church with a basement full of bodies that burned down."

After observing a shadow of something flying, one of the boys, Kimball, suspects that something is wrong. The bus driver, Betty Borman, explains that the bus has 5 tires left in good condition and that they can drive more slowly; once everyone on the bus is lit and begins its journey again. At nightfall, Minxie has a dream where she sees "Darry" who points them right to where The Creeper is seen running and approaching the bus; Minxie watches as the creature throws something straight at the bus, and she is awake and realizes that the bus has stopped again;  the driver orders the players and cheerleaders to get out of the vehicle while trainer Charlie begins to place flares on the road.

Nightmare come true
Betty manages to detect the problem, learning that another tire of the bus was ripped abruptly by another shurinken, While Betty tries to explain to a coach what is happening; "The Creeper" takes coach Charlie, leaving everyone scared. He orders the teenagers to get back on the bus while they look for Charlie, finally the creature takes Betty and the other coach.

The Devil appears through the emergency exit window and chooses his victims. Minxie faints and goes into a trance, upon awakening she says that a dead boy named Darry tried to tell her that that creature was responsible for her death and now she comes to her for new victims. Later, Andy, another of the boys, tries to contact the police through the bus radio and there he communicates with Jack Taggart, who assures him that he will soon be there. The Creeper grabs Andy's head, but fails in an attempt to assassinate him, as Rhonda sticks a javelin in his right eye, after that, he rips off half his head, flies off, but falls almost immediately on the bus, exploding The windows, a wing is opened on the bus, and Dante is taken, from which he eats his head, to replace it with his other mutilated head, but Scott manages to open the door, and says that Andy, Jake and Kimball must leave, Kimball tells him that he too was chosen, and most of them get off the bus.

The flight of the devil
Later Izzy, sees the Creeper in the sky, and begins a chase, in which, Jake dies because the demon throws a very sharp bone cross at his head, and takes the opportunity to kidnap Scott. Rhonda and Kimball give up, until Izzy finds a truck. It was the one that passed them on the day, that The Demon has taken the driver. Chelsea and Johnny are hiding there and are terrified by the sounds that come from the roof of the bus, after this Bucky enters and "The Creeper" attacks him, but after Taggart shoots him with a harpoon, "The Creeper" escapes and gives the back to Taggart's truck.

Izzy realizes that the keys to the truck are there and after observing a shadow another chase begins, in which Izzy yells for Kimball to duck, and throws Rhonda out of the passenger cabin. The Creeper comes through the window, flipping the truck over. You can see how Izzy gets out of the truck, but it is not known if he is alive or died in the explosion and the Demon begins to track with his nose, and smells of Kimball, who is crawling on the ground, however, he reaches him, but is saved by Jack Taggart, who gave a harpoon to the head of the creature. Unfortunately, he realizes that it is impossible to kill him, and, no matter how much he damages him.

23 years later he would wake up and start his bloody hunt again and Taggart, now a man around 60 years old exhibits the Creeper as the `` Bat from Hell '' and awaits his possible awakening with the harpoon in his hands to avoid let this creature do any harm.

Ways to hunt
The Creeper builds his tools with human parts, including: Skin, Bones, shaped like Shuriken blades, or bone and steel daggers. Then he preserves the corpses of his victims in dark and uninhabited places, such as in some basement of a Church or in abandoned factories  (Jeepers Creepers) , and preserves the bodies so that they are completely solid, when extracting an organ, he sews the incision with thread made of human skin. He catches his victims by throwing projectiles made by himself, he can fly at very high distances until he disappears from sight.

Trivia

 * "Jeepers Creepers (2001)" is considered a tribute to the slasher films of the 80's due to the artistic of the poster and the first trailer shown in theaters.
 * The creature's appearance is loosely based on Freddy Krueger.
 * The director and screenwriter of the film is  Victor Salva.  The same guy who directed his first movie  Slasher: Clownhouse (1989) 
 * "Jeepers Creepers (2001)," is one of the first films of the 2000s to revive the genre called "slasher."
 * After the premiere `` Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003), Victor Salva '' declared that he has always wanted to direct the 3rd part, that the director wrote the script at the end of 2003, it would be shot in 2005 and it would be shown in the spring of year 2006. But there was never any response from the Production Company "MGM," since the production company had pending projects and the project for "Jeepers Creepers 3" went to the cloud.
 * After thinking that  Jeepers Creepers 3  would never be released:  Victor Salva , he announced in September 2015 that he had a totally new script for the 3rd part and would name it as `` Jeepers Creepers 3: The Cathedral,  and would begin filming in Canada beginning 2016; the story of the 3rd part tells that 23 years after `` Jeepers Creepers and Jeepers Creepers 2,  the story will focus on Trish and her son, that the ghosts of her past will haunt her until she decides to go to the road where Darry, her brother, died.  The premiere of the film is scheduled until mid-2017.
 * Many compare  The Creeper,  with  Pennywise  of That, since they both have a hibernation period and wake up at each certain time, the only difference is that  The Demon  He does it every 23 years and Pennywise wakes up every 27 years.