JEEPERS CREEPERS

Trish Jenner and her brother Darry are traveling home from college for spring break. As they drive through the Florida countryside, an old truck violently tailgates them but eventually passes. During their drive, they discuss the urban legend of Kenny and Darla — a senior prom couple who disappeared in 1978. They later see the same truck parked next to an abandoned church. The driver, wearing a large trenchcoat, dumps what appears to be corpses wrapped in blood-stained sheets into a large pipe sticking out of the ground. The driver then notices them, giving chase and forcing them off the road.

With the driver gone, Darry convinces Trish to return to the church. Hearing strange noises coming from the pipe, Darry crawls inside with Trish holding onto his feet. Darry then falls into the pipe, which leads into the church basement. There he finds a dying man with stitches running down his abdomen, as well as many corpses sewn to the walls and ceiling, including those of Kenny and Darla.

Escaping the place, Darry and Trish flee to a nearby diner. However, they receive a cryptic call from a woman, who predicts their imminent danger. She mentions a future encounter with a cat lady and playing the song "Jeepers Creepers", suggesting that one of them will meet a terrifying fate while hearing it. Darry proceeds to call the police. The siblings later learn from a waitress that the truck driver broke into their car, sniffed their laundry and looked like he "really liked it".

Two police officers escort the siblings back to the church, but reports come in that it has been set on fire. On their way back, the officers are attacked and killed by the truck driver, leaving Trish and Darry in shock. The two stop at the home of an elderly woman with numerous cats to call the police. The driver sneaks in and kills the cat lady, before revealing its monstrous appearance to Trish and Darry. Trish repeatedly runs the driver over with her car, only for a giant wing to tear through its trench coat. They drive off.

They eventually reach a police station, where they meet Jezelle Gay Hartman, the psychic who called them earlier. She explains that their pursuer is an ancient creature known as the Creeper, which awakens every 23rd spring for 23 days to feed on human body parts, absorbing them into its own body. It selects its victims based on their fear. Sgt. Davis Tubbs, the officer in charge, is skeptical of Jezelle's warnings, dismissing her claims as delusional. Tension grows between them as Jezelle insists that the Creeper is real and that one of the siblings is doomed.

That night, the Creeper arrives at the station, breaking into the holding cells and killing several prisoners to heal its wounds. Despite Tubbs' and the rest of the police force's efforts to stop it, the creature proves unstoppable. It eventually corners Trish and Darry in an upstairs interrogation room. After sniffing them both, it throws Trish aside and chooses Darry. Trish offers herself in his place, but the Creeper escapes through a window, flying off with Darry into the night.

The next day, Trish is picked up by her parents, and Jezelle returns home. In an abandoned factory, Darry's mutilated body is revealed—his back flayed open and his eyes removed. As the song "Jeepers Creepers" plays, the Creeper is seen peeking through the holes where Darry's eyes used to be.

The Creeper attacks the police station, kills several people, and ultimately abducts Darry after choosing him over Trish.

The ending cements the Creeper's mythos as an unstoppable, ritualistic predator—one that cannot be bargained or reasoned with, choosing its prey based on fear. Trish's futile attempt to sacrifice herself for her brother underscores the randomness and cruelty of its selection, leaving viewers with a chilling sense of helplessness and unresolved trauma.