After suffering from a summer overwhelmed by bad movies and sunburns, Labor Day had promised to end the drama. However, the past three months of torture in the world of cinema were summed up this past weekend with the unfortunate release of Jeepers Creepers. After sitting through this feature, sunburn doesn’t seem so bad.

This newest installment in the horror genre, involving dumb teens driving on back roads, hit a new low.

Life was good for Trish (Gina Philips) and her brother Darry (Justin Long). After a hard semester, a break had finally arrived, and the two were headed home for a rest. Everything was going well for the siblings as they traveled through small-town America, until a road hog driving a “mystery machine” look-alike from hell, tried to drive them off the road. The mystery driver decided to pass them and drove on ahead. The first sign of stupidity on their part occurred only five minutes into the film.

This time they witnessed him dumping an object wrapped in a bloodstained sheet into a sewer. After debating about what exactly they saw back there, they decided to go back and investigate. What they discovered was a platoon of preserved bodies attached to the ceiling in a Sistine Chapel replica.

Somehow this tragic experience unleashed a killer. Jeepers Creepers takes on the age-old scary movie theme of teens trying to outrun a madman; the only problem was that movie audiences desire a little more plot-a part of the movie the writers forgot to work on.

Thanks to the huge success of Scream, theatres are plagued with at least one bad horror film a year, and this is the only way to explain Jeepers Creepers.

The lack of acting experience on the part of Philips and Long clearly shows in the characters they portray. Their lack of expression combined with monotonous screams makes one ponder whether they were scared or just bored? The audience definitely wasn’t scared.

Jeepers Creepers teeter-totters on the brink of stupidity. A few scenes kept it from becoming the worst movie since Eye of the Beholder, but nothing could have saved it. The sad part is that the writers and actors thought the audience would putting forth the effort to sit through the film. It was a close call. D