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Two siblings, Trish (Gina Philips) and her brother Darry Jenner (Justin Long) are on their way back home from college for spring break. As they drive through the Florida countryside, an old and rusty truck tries to run them off the road. The vehicle eventually passes them, and they later see the same truck parked next to an old abandoned church with a man sliding what appears to be a body wrapped in blood stained sheets into a large pipe sticking out of the ground.
The driver notices Darry and Trish watching him, and attempts to run them off the road a second time. After barely escaping, Darry convinces Trish to go back to the church and investigate. When Darry hears something coming from within the pipe, he crawls inside with Trish holding on to his feet, but falls inside. At the bottom, he finds a dying man with stitches running down his stomach and hundreds of bodies sewn together covering the basements walls and ceiling. Darry escapes and the two flee the scene and attempt to contact the police at a diner. They are phoned by a strange woman who warns them that they are in terrible danger, but confused and frightened, they ignore her warning. Trish and Darry leave with two police officers providing a security escort. As they travel, the police learn that the old church has gone up in flames, and all evidence of any bodies has been destroyed. They are then attacked and killed by the mysterious driver, who loads the policemen's bodies into his truck.
Fleeing once again, Trish and Darry stop at a reclusive old woman's house, begging her to call the police. The woman complies, until she notices the driver hiding in her yard. She tries to kill him with a shotgun, but the driver kills her and pursues Trish and Darry once again. Trish manages to hit the mysterious driver with their car, running him over several times, and seemingly killing him. However, they are horrified to see a giant wing tear through his trenchcoat and flap frantically in the air. They drive to the local police station and are approached by psychic Jezelle Gay Hartman. She reveals herself as the woman who called them at the diner, and tells them the true nature of their pursuer: it is an ancient creature known as 'The Creeper' which hunts every 23rd spring for 23 days to feast on human body parts which, upon consumption, form parts of its own body. She also tells them that it seeks out its victims through fear, and that by smelling the fear from Trish and Darry it has found something it likes, but she does not know what.
The wounded Creeper attacks the police station and gains entrance to the cells, and after feasting on prisoners to heal, he is swarmed by police. Meanwhile, Jezelle, Trish and Darry attempt to escape but find themselves trapped. Jezelle warns that one of them will die a horrible death, while the song "Jeepers Creepers" plays on a phonograph in the background. Darry demands to know who, and she looks at Trish. The three are then discovered by the Creeper, and are separated. The Creeper heads towards Jezelle and sniffs her intently, but lets her go, and heads off to find Trish and Darry.
After a lengthy chase, the Creeper corners both Trish and Darry in an upstairs interrogation room. After sniffing, and tasting them, the Creeper throws Trish aside and chooses Darry. The police burst in and take aim, and Trish tries to reason with it, offering to give her life for her brother's, however, the Creeper escapes out the window, flying away with Darry. The next day, Trish, contemplating Darry's fate, is picked up by her parents, and Jezelle returns home in regret.
The final scene shows the Creeper in its new hideout, an abandoned factory, where the audience can hear Darry's screams echoing in the background, and finally learns what the Creeper wanted: by ripping out the back of Darry's head, it has taken his eyes. The film ends with The Creeper leering at the audience, through Darry's empty eye socket, while "Jeepers Creepers" plays in the background.
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