Jeepers Creepers: Reborn is the fourth film in this franchise and you can draw a line graph in quality that you could ski down. Part 1 was better than 2, part 3 was worse than 2… but part 4 makes part 3 look like part 2. This is an astonishingly bad and stupid film that everyone should be ashamed of.

The flick follows a young couple attending a horror convention in an area of the country where the creeper is a local legend. They quickly win a contest for an escape room in a local run-down mansion… and the creeper is waiting to… I dunno… eat brains and steal unborn babies? Something?

The movie is startlingly bad. The visual effects are bad, the dialog is laughable, the editing is chaotic, the continuity is a joke, the acting inconsistent, and even the characters aren’t the same from scene to scene (and I think one of them just straight-up vanishes).

And, sure, characters in horror flicks do stupid things… but these guys just run up and back down steps, repeat dialog, and have this magical knowledge about what the creeper wants… and the entire geography of the house whenever it suits the script.

I don’t know exactly what a Jeepers Creepers film needs to be and there’s a fair argument that a reboot can do whatever it wants. But this wasn’t the right direction to go. Jeepers Creepers was always interesting for being set on the open road, in open fields, often during daytime. But now we’re largely stuck in a generic mansion and it feels like some other horror movie that they just cut and pasted the creeper into. This could have been any slasher film. Any at all.

The runtime of the film is allegedly 95 minutes but I think it was gracefully much shorter. I was both happy and annoyed when it abruptly ended… happy because it meant I could get up and walk out, annoyed because… really? That was the big finale? What a whiff.

One should be happy when a terrible movie is polite enough to just say “nah, we done here.” Thanks movie. Next time maybe just don’t get made at all. This is an insult to this rapidly decaying franchise and it makes me miss part 3. Hell, it makes me miss the disgusting monster who made the first movie. Now that’s creepy.

Score: 56