Is Jeepers Creepers: Reborn Scary? The Verdict and the Whole Plot
Somewhat, 4 out of 10. It's a creature slasher with jump scares and a plot that doesn't need your full attention.
🐱THE SCARE SIGNAL
SCARE SCORE
4 /10
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DREAD LEVEL
Low
It is gone by the time the credits roll.
DOG
Dog: fine
fine, no dog dies.
Ruling: Reasonable for a group horror night, as long as nobody expects the plot to hold up.
Jeepers Creepers: Reborn runs eighty-eight minutes and sends a couple to a horror festival in Louisiana to enjoy the fake monsters. The real one has just woken up and is hungry.
The premise, briefly
A couple attends a horror festival in rural Louisiana just as a legendary creature wakes up to feed, and the girlfriend starts having strange visions.
How much do you want to know?
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The verdict above is spoiler-free. Everything below, including the ending, stays hidden until you pick a depth.
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How it ends
Laine blinds the Creeper with its own shuriken, and a falling weather vane impales it. Crows eat it and push Stu off the roof, killing him. Laine and Chase leave, and somewhere else the Creeper regenerates and roars.
The scene you're dreading
The graveyard scene, in the middle of the movie: the Creeper kills the cameraman as Chase proposes, takes Laine, and pierces her abdomen with a knife while she is tied to a table. Laine survives it and frees herself.
The dog
No dog dies in Jeepers Creepers: Reborn. A crow does die.
Jeepers Creepers: Reborn is a creature slasher with some jump scares, and knowing the plot costs it very little.
THE SHORT VERSION IS HIDDEN
How it ends, the scene you're dreading, what happens to the dog, and the bottom line. About twenty seconds to read.
What actually happens
A gift shop with cryptic opinions
Millennial couple Chase and Laine drive to the Horror Hound festival in rural Louisiana. Chase is obsessed with the paranormal, especially the local legend of the Creeper, a creature that spends twenty-three days every twenty-three years killing and eating hundreds of people. He plans to propose, and Laine, without telling him, suspects she is pregnant. Meanwhile the Creeper wakes up and starts feeding to build its strength. At a gift shop, Laine touches a mysterious artifact and has a premonition, and the owner, Lady Manilla, gives the couple cryptic messages. At the hotel Laine starts a pregnancy test, but a crow hits the window and interrupts her.
At the festival Laine picks up a shuriken and turns out to be unusually good at throwing it. The Creeper arrives and starts hunting, and it uses its truck to knock out the internet. The couple enters a raffle run by the organizer, Madam Carnage, for a chance at a night in an old abandoned plantation house, now an escape room. Laine starts to have visions of herself taking part in a ritual inside that house. A cameraman and a crew come along to document the stay, plus a local tour guide named Stu.
The wrong time for a proposal
This is the scene to brace for, and it comes in the middle of the movie. On the way to the house the group crosses an eighteenth-century graveyard. The Creeper kills the cameraman and grabs Laine just as Chase proposes. Laine wakes tied to a table, and the Creeper stabs a knife into her abdomen. She survives it. Back at the house, the others argue about what to do, and Stu fires his pistol into the air, which draws the Creeper over. It abandons Laine and hunts the rest of the group through the house, killing everyone except Stu and Chase.
The ending, explained
Laine frees herself and rejoins Chase and Stu, and she tells Chase about the pregnancy and says the Creeper is after her because of it. They learn that Madam Carnage, Lady Manilla and others worship the Creeper and have been luring victims to the house for it. The plan is for Laine to draw the Creeper outside while Chase and Stu tip the weather vane onto it. Laine blinds it with its own shuriken, and the vane falls and impales it. A flock of crows devours the Creeper, pushes Stu off the roof and kills him, and flies off into the night. Laine and Chase leave. Somewhere else, the Creeper regenerates and lets out a devilish roar.
The post-credits ruling
Nobody has confirmed whether there is a scene after the credits.
✓ Spoiled safelyDog status: fine, no dog dies.
Questions people ask at 1am
Is Jeepers Creepers: Reborn scary?
Somewhat. Jeepers Creepers: Reborn is a 4 out of 10 with low dread: a creature slasher with jump scares and a few graphic moments.
How does Jeepers Creepers: Reborn end?
Laine blinds the Creeper with the shuriken and a falling weather vane impales it. Crows eat it and kill Stu, Laine and Chase leave, and the Creeper regenerates elsewhere.
Does the dog die in Jeepers Creepers: Reborn?
No dog dies in Jeepers Creepers: Reborn. A crow does die.
Is there a post-credits scene in Jeepers Creepers: Reborn?
Nobody has confirmed whether Jeepers Creepers: Reborn has a scene after the credits.
Why does the Creeper target Laine in Jeepers Creepers: Reborn?
Laine is pregnant, and the Creeper is after her because of it. The people behind the festival worship the Creeper and have been luring victims to the house for it.
BLURRED FOR YOUR PROTECTION
The whole plot of Jeepers Creepers: Reborn is hidden, ending included. It stays that way until you ask.
You don't need to sit through eighty-eight minutes of a haunted festival to learn how Jeepers Creepers: Reborn ends. Install Scaredy Cat and horror gets blurred before you see it.
