Independent research - Jeepers Creepers (2001)

I am going to watch the first 15 minutes of Jeepers Creepers (2001). I will explain the convention of this horror film including sound, fake scares and much more. This film is a 15 classification.

 Here is the opening scene to Jeepers Creepers. As you cans see the location is in the middle of no where overlooking the country side to clearly state to the audience that there is nothing around them for miles. The music is very quiet but very impacting on the audience. It like metal being banged together and a little bit of some quiet voice in the background. It changes from being very quiet to loud. When the scene opens you can hear the wind rustling between the trees and grass.

A car now comes into the sight of the audience with loud engine noise and people speaking. The engine noises get louder and louder the closer the car gets to us. The characters you can see in this scene is a girl and a boy. We do not know anything about these two yet, so the audience will be wanted to know who they are and what they are like. There questioning themselves.

Here is when we first get to see the character up close to see what they look like and who they are. There's a few words switched between the pair, the girl says 'That was a stop sign'. The audience may be questioning why she said that because they don't no anything about the story line or where they are driving too. He then says 'On this road? I have not seen a car for 50 miles'. This clearly shows that there is know one around this area.

She now starts playing with the radio for something to do. These actions are showing us signs that she is bored and helplessness as they are going through the middle of no where with nothing to do. This is a classical feature for teen horror movies for someone to be bored and start playing around with stuff in the car, like the film we watched in class (Dead Mary). Also its normally the girl that gets bored.

A truck that looks run down and old is speeding towards their car and then tries to get round them. The two characters are scares so this may portray on the audience as a fake scare as the truck beeps the horn very loud. The two characters are using strong language and arguing because the truck will not go away. The pair seem very scared and look innocent because they are letting the truck driver past.



Further down the same road they spot that the same truck that was bothering them earlier on, has a man taking object that look like people wrapped in bed linen with red blood stains on it. Putting them down a pipe in the ground. They seem suspicious about this and question why? They freak out a little but not too much. This is the first intake we have of dead bodies and now we have an idea on who was in that truck and what he is like.


The truck has just pulled out of the house that it was stopped in and now is heading towards them. The girl reaches for the mobile phone but as you can see says 'Low battery'. This is a classical scene that i see in lots of horror films. The audiences adrenalin is now pumped up by the loud truck noises and the panic of the characters. They must be thrilled and scared at this point. Some viewers put them in the shoes of the character. They now have no way of contacting anyone its just them and the suspected killer chasing after them.

The truck has just crashed into the back of their car, they are flying all over the place. The thrill is building as the characters scream even louder and the audience get even more scared. The music of the loud violins and the crashing sound that mix in with the engine roars and the honks of the horn.





The car has just been knocked off the road and the male wants to head back for the creepy house to see if anyone is alive down the pipe. Sometimes the audience shots at the t.v telling them not to go back in fear. This is all part of the film producers magic by making the audience more engaged in what's going on. That is the end of the first 15 minutes of Jeepers Creepers.


                                     Here is the trailer for Jeepers Creepers (2001)