What a great thread.
Okay, firstly...honestly, I enjoyed Jeepers Creepers and the sequel as well. In fact, I liked the sequel better. The trick with the first movie is to avoid as much as you can focus on the suit. For some reason, the creature suit kind of ruined it for me (I'm speaking of the scene where the main characters encounter the creature with their car). And I would agree with GNT, the concept is probably better than the execution, but for a good part of the first movie, it is great. Example: the opening scene with the brother and sister talking...took its time, set a tone, built tension. The scenery too is cool. As some have said, the movie evokes films from the 70s, at least in a sense. The sequel was really good because, for some reason, I love films that follow the formula of setting up high school/college kids for mayhem. Maybe I'm trying to stay young, but films like Scream, The Faculty, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cry Wolf, Night of the Demons 2, they all are fun (Wolf in particular was entertaining). Ghost and GNT, try watching the films again, they improve with more viewings. You've got to appreciate the cycle of the monster, too (as in, appreciate the It element).
They should really remake Kingdom of the Spiders. In fact, I am waiting for a Cloverfield-type film that uses giant spiders as the menace. The upcoming Jurassic World should have had a giant spider in it (would have been cool if a new fossil of a giant spider had been found, or at least a spider the size of raptor).
Thing I remember in The Swarm is they used flamethrowers on the bees (at least, I think I am remembering that right). Would that really work?
As for the question, in keeping with the arachnid theme, remember Earth vs. the Spider? Someone had pointed out how the spider was on display at one point in a school gymnasium (it was thought to be dead) but once it came alive and escaped, it was bigger than the school! I had never noticed that before.
In terms of a movie with big stars in it, wasn't Leonard Nimoy in something called The Brain Eaters? Do I have that title right?
