Jeepers Creepers: What Is The Creeper?

4. Everything We Know So Far

The Creeper is a fiend that every 23rd year awakens in spring to eat terrified idiots. It walks, drives, and from far away looks like a human, and a deleted scene from the original shows it even talks like a westerner.

However, with bat-like wings, yellow fangs that could do with meeting a toothbrush, and a rubbery shell that conveniently comes with a zipper, the Creeper is much more than your average serial killer. Instead, it is a flying monster who enjoys driving up and down barren roads and creating daggers that function as its kryptonite.

Eating people to replace defunct body parts like a lopsided head, crushed feet, and pale eyes, the Creeper’s arsenal includes Kratos’ axe, ninja stars made from bones, skin and teeth, and a weaponised truck that would make Batman jealous. A third, secret nostril helps it choose who to eat by specifically smelling people’s fear, making Salva’s beast even more of a Pennywise knock-off.

Changing its personality in-between movies, the Creeper turned from a straight-to-business, unstoppable beast to a Poundland Freddie Kreuger. In addition, the sequels introduced the concept of its victims becoming a reluctant part of it spiritually, which is grossly contrived seeing as Darry and Trish were warned by the local nut rather than ghosts.