JC3, so many plot holes!

I felt like this movie was trying to inject some weird kind of metaphysical element to the creeper, represented by the bulletproof nature of his truck and the fact that things that *should* have killed him (a barrage of 20mm cannon fire, steel spike through his skull) don't. IIRC, in the second movie the giant harpoon gun actually could shoot him and hold onto him.

I can accept that the creeper is somehow beyond the ordinary rules of stuff, but it always bugs me when they're made basically indestructible. I can buy into handguns don't work (small damage, rapid healing), but 20mm rounds? These are capable of producing casualties to exposed personnel at a 2 meter radius, a fragmentation hazard to 20 meters and able to penetrate half-inch armor plate at 100 meters. A burst of fire from that gun shouldn't just slow the creeper down, it should shred him into dust.

The first film was a ton of fun, the second not bad, but this one just failed to do anything meaningful to enhance the mythology.

Jeepers Creepers 1, 3 and 2 occur within 4 days of each other in 2001.

The first film took place on day 19 when the Creeper's church hideout caught on fire, ending on the morning of day 20 when the Creeper rips Darry's eyes out. The third one took place from the night of day 19 when the Creeper flew off with Darry, to late night on day 20, possibly early morning of day 21 when he reads the sign "We Know What you Are". At the end of the third, we see a school bus of teenaged basketball players, including the teenaged male protagonist, heading out to compete in a game. Teenaged male protagonist tells his lady friend he was probably going to stay with extended family after the game. The second film shows Taggart's son getting abducted on Day 22, and Day 23 is when the school bus of kids are driving back. Since we don't see the teenaged male protagonist on the bus, we are to assume he stayed with extended family while his teammates got murdered in the second film. And then 23 years later, the Creeper is hung up on the wall in Taggart's farm, while Trisha writes a post saying she will kill the Creeper as Spring approaches.

To be fair, before the events of the first film, only the Sheriff and 6 of his deputies knew of the Creeper and seen him before Darry, Trish, Jezelle, Sgt. Tubbs, the prisoners and the rest of Tubb's men were attacked by the Creeper. So yes, they were very ill-prepared, but it kinda makes sense. Still, its stupid how they thought 7 men could take it down. Three of them are dead by the end of this one, and they don't reappear in the second one, so their inclusion in-between 1 and 2 has no purpose. So maybe a possible fourth film can explore that better?

The Creeper wants his hand back because if people like Gaylen Brandon or Sheriff Tashtego were to get ahold of it, they would be able to know how to kill him, since they're the only ones who know his origins.

The Sheriff can't communicate with his deputy about firing off the machine gun because the Creeper's horn is blocking out the sound. Plus, the deputy is probably only focused on gunning the thing down, since he seems to be flashing back to when the Creeper ripped out his dad's heart 23 years prior when he sees the truck.

The Creeper warning the cop with his finger has less to do with him not wanting to be shot, but more of him not wanting a reason to unnecessarily harm someone. It's a threat to her saying "You pull that trigger, I'll come for you next."

The second movie showed that the steel post in his head also had no effect on him either, so really headshots or removing his head does nothing. The trap he had in his truck poked out his eye, so he did have a hole.

Still, I agree with you, this movie is really stupid. I still don't understand how he'd think the girl of the douchebag on the bike were dead when he threw them in.

This post made me giggle, so thank you for that! The whole movie just felt like a set up for the next movie, to pull the interest in like another person mentioned. It would have been much more effective as an actual sequel, ideally with Ray Wise and/or Trish. It was entertaining, but kind of pointless, with mostly terrible characters.

To list all the plot holes and inconsistencies in this disaster would be like listing every individual verse from the bible.

For starters, the cop character has aged 20 years in five minutes. I also love how placing this film between the events of 1 and 2 completely ignores the continuity of how the first two films worked. I thought they took 5 days apart, but this movie implies they took just 2 days apart.

Good post and can probably answer some but there is an element of the creeper where your just supposed to sit back and enjoy the popcorn creepy fun.