Every 23rd spring, for 23 days, The Creeper gets to eat. And with his second flick, he gets a heckuvalot more face time. The fortune of that is entirely dependent on how one feels about this gargoyle-ish beast who feeds on fear and select body parts of carefully chosen victims. Writer/director Victor Salva credits pal Frances Ford Coppola for encouraging him to make this second incarnation, which he claims more faithfully follows his initial vision of the original film. Most would argue he got it right the first time.
Naturally, Jonathan Breck, the man behind the ghoul, is plenty pleased to see his meal ticket back in action — loads of it in fact. There’s nary a scene where the big guy doesn’t appear, whether it’s lounging on crosses playing scarecrow, swooping through the night like a bat out of heck or sidelining a bus full of footballers with a throwing star made of human bones and teeth. He’s sort of a graveyard Martha Stewart.
Among the deleted scenes, there’s a really remarkable sequence showing long-withered corpses of knights and other warriors who’ve attempted to slay this long lived foe a la that parting peek behind the Titty Twister in From Dusk Til Dawn.
No breasts. Nine corpses. Psychic teenybopper. Copious spazzing. Homoerotic sunbathing. Gratuitous urination. Decapitation (with ingestion). CGI shenanigans. Excessive "cock" talk.