“Jeepers Creepers” is a movie about a man named Darius (Justin Long) and his sister, Trisha (Gina Phillips), using the scenic route to get home for Spring Break.

Because of a few horror movie mistakes and a magnum opus of an idea by Darius to look down a sewage pipe, they are chased around by a demon with an incredible sense of smell.

He hunts for prey by ramming people off the road and using his special smell skill to detect if he wants a body part from a person to preserve his own life.

After the monster takes what he needs from the victim, he puts on his favorite tune, “Jeepers Creepers,” and preserves the rest of the body for a ghastly mosaic.

Though this movie is considered a horror movie, it is mild in its deliverance of good cinematic blood, guts and perverse killings.

The problem is at first, the director. Victor Salva has a cool, deadly demon with a bit of a sense of humor who loves the song “Jeepers Creepers.” Then it becomes selective of who it wants to eat, while at the same time, it becomes dim-witted.

Why a mindless-merciful demon? “More entrails!” is what I say.

The demon does not even use his nifty ax enough to satisfy any blood-thirsting moviegoer.

Also, Salva tries to create tension by allowing Darius and Trisha to do every dumb thing imaginable for prolonged periods of time.

For example, Trisha does battle with the demon using her car. After many failed attempts to run it over, she finally hits the demon and runs him over many, many times.

Darius and Trisha watch the demon instead of leaving in a hurry more times than I care to remember. Salva also uses the `we-can’t-move-because-the-gears-are-stuck’ gag enough times to annoy small children.

It seems to me that Salva doesn’t quite know when to quit a scene.

Some say that certain fads die out. In movies, this has a tendency to happen to horror films. But no genre truly dies out, because every few years, after a huge horror cinematic masterpiece is made, a young person attempts to “revamp” a genre to life once more.

“Jeepers Creepers” is an example of why people believe genres die out.