14 year wait and they came up with this?
The director had an absolute mare here with this straight-to-DVD looking mess of a movie. I say it's a 14 year wait but judging by the result it's like the director was made to come up with something on the spot in about a day.
It's hard to know where to start with how bad this was. It had the feel of self-parody at times it was that bad.
You have this Creeper's hand plot going on which is stupid enough, and then characters hold hands with it and it causes them to lift up in the air in pain, while they gain some inside knowledge about the creature (which is never revealed). It's honestly like something out of a Scary Movie movie.
The Creeper goes around looking quite bulky and fresh faced in this one and is wearing this red top which looks so out of place. It's like Sloth out of The Goonies with his Superman top, but imagine that not being played for laughs.
They decided to make the Creeper's vehicle a sort of James Bond car/Saw trap. Pretty much indestructible with nice little random gadgets pulled out of the director's ass, like homing missiles, and a harpoon thing that shoots out the back and travels hundreds of yards through the air. It can also withstand being hit with cannon-sized bullets from huge rapid fire guns on the back of trucks. This together with the Creeper's newly realised javelin skills that means he can throw a spear at a distance of 100 yards and impale 2 bikers at the same time with it against a tree, makes you think what the point of trying to destroy him or his vehicle is, and why he takes his time killing others in the franchise when he can do it at the snap of a finger, in any fashion he pleases.
The film isn't scary at all, and more laughable. The funniest part is when the last biker is fleeing from the scene and somehow jumps on his bike 40 feet in the air over a seemingly flat field, before getting snapped up by some very dodgy CG Creeper. The scariest thing in it is the grandma's face. She was a scary looking actress in the 80's and age and time has made her more scary 30 years on.
When it tries linking in with JC 2 at the end with the boy getting on that fateful bus, 2 things instantly come to mind: 1) The boy isn't at all recognisable from any of the passengers in JC 2, and 2) Why would this boy not speak up about what's happening in that first sequel when they're all wondering what this thing attacking them is, and he's had experience with it?
Just a completely dumb movie in so many ways.