Jeepers Creepers III (2017)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2017
	Director: Victor Salva (Rosewood Lane, Jeepers Creepers 1-2)
	Actors: Stan Shaw, Gabrielle Haugh, Brandon Smith
	Country: USA
	Genre: Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 12.04.2019, VOD, 10" tablet screen.
Synopsis: Sheriff Dan Tashtego (Shaw) and a team of creeper hunters enlist the help of officer Davis Tubbs (Smith) to help stop the monster's eating spree.
Review: When I saw the first two Jeepers Creepers they went to my top-list of best B-series Horror movies. I found they were an original take on the boogeyman / slasher genre, had good actors like Justin Long, scary moments which were not in-your-face jump-scares, and were even better appreciated when knowing the background of the director (he did and still does love showing things getting in and out of stinking dark holes...). And I found the second movie cleverly different from the first while taking place right after it (reminding of John Carpenter's Halloween II). Unfortunately I have the feeling Jeepers Creepers III came too late, some 15 years after the two others and at a time when such movies were not appreciated anymore (torture porn happened in between). And definitely too late for me as I am nowadays less fan the the Genre, and I didn't remember enough of the other movies to get many references in this one. I still can't figure out if the reveal that the movie is an Interquel left to the end is intentional or if I just realized only at the end. If the former it is quite brilliant. Oh yes Interquel is a term I learned while researching this movie. It is neither a Sequel nor a Prequel but is defined as a movie (or video-game in fact, or novel) taking place between two other already released ones. I realized that known examples include the game Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (that's how they called it), The Animatrix and nothing less than Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Another flavor is the Midquel that takes place during a not-shown pause in the action of another movie, like for example L: change the WorLd (mentionned in our FEFF2008 article). Back to our movie: it still shows some brutal murders executed by our boogeyman, now in daytime, and is going some places you don't expect, but it seems to suffer from a lack of budget that shows in the more amateurish acting, filming and special effects. I would still praise the effort made to bring this movie to the world and a handful of good ideas, but as a whole it is not so great.
Rating: 5 /10