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With: Sydney Craven, Imran Adams, Pete Brooke, Ocean Navarro, Matt Barkley, Alexander Halsall, Jodie McMullen, Jarreau Benjamin, Georgia Goodman, Gabriel Freilich, Dee Wallace, Gary Graham, Romain Faure
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Written by: Sean-Michael Argo
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Directed by: Timo Vuorensola
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MPAA Rating: R for violence, gore and language
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Running Time: 88
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Date: 09/19/2022
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Jeepers Creepers: Reborn (2022)
Cheap 'Jeepers'
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
This fourth movie in the slasher franchise erases the previous three movies (they're fictional), while this is the real thing, but it's so abominably bad that it, too, deserves to be erased for good.
Chase (Imran Adams) has talked his scientist girlfriend Laine (Sydney Craven) into attending a horror festival in a remote part of Louisiana. Chase is fascinated by tales of the Creeper, who is said to appear every 23 years and go on a murderous rampage.
At the festival, Laine wins tickets to an escape room, and they are immediately taken there, accompanied by a video crew. Unfortunately, Laine is whisked away by the Creeper, and the rest are trapped in the sinister old house. It turns out Laine has something the Creeper wants, and so Chase and the others must find her and get out before the monster picks them off, one by one.
Jeepers Creepers: Reborn begins with a weirdly-acted prologue — surprising, given that it features Dee Wallace, a veteran of many horror movies, as well as E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial — that sets the tone. Things do not improve when we meet Chase and Laine. It's unclear what they see in each other, given that their interests are entirely opposite (he likes horror and the supernatural, and she scoffs at those things). Their dialogue and performances make things even more awkward; they don't seem to listen to one another. None of the characters even resemble actual humans.
Indeed, Jeepers Creepers: Reborn feels like a horror movie created by an algorithm. The festival — which for some reason features fire-eaters and sword-swallowers — is also awkward, and everyone seems to be robotically dancing and having no fun. The final stretch in the old house is over-lit to the point that nothing is scary; the monster looks like a harmless alien from a Star Trek episode.
Shafts of light stream through the walls, suggesting that it would be pretty easy to break through and escape, but no one thinks of it. When Chase says of the Creeper, "we can't fight it, but we can beat it... maybe even stop it," a viewer would be forgiven for throwing up his or her hands and shutting this thing off.
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