What's the relationship between the song "Jeepers Creepers" and the movie title?
In Jeepers Creepers, there is a scene in which Fatty and a girl are in a diner, they get a call from a woman, and she plays a song.
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While waiting for the cops to arrive, they are phoned by a local psychic, Jezelle Gay Hartman, who warns them about the danger they face. She plays them the song "Jeepers Creepers" on the phone, and tells them that when they hear that song, they will be in extreme danger.
What connection does the creature have with this song? And why would they choose the name "Jeepers Creepers" as the movie title?
Is the creature only attacking victims who heard this song? Based on Jeepers Creepers 2, this seems to be wrong. Did I miss something?
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She just knew, through her psychic powers (I don't think it was specified how her powers works), that "they'll be in extreme danger, when they hear that song", so she warned them.
She used the song playing because she didn't know any other specifics about the time this will happen.
So, she was just using a unique marker from her vision (e g "I don't know when, but it's when you see this street sign..."). The creature don't know or care about the song.
Also,
Jeepers kreepers, where'd you get those eyes...... how'd they get so lit up...... how'd they get this size
Those lyrics fit the events of the movie, "A creature fascinated by someone's eyes and gets them.
And the term itself is an expression for surprise or shock, so it makes a fitting name for the movie.
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Was Jeepers Creepers based on the song?
The 2001 horror film Jeepers Creepers not only borrows its title from the song, but features a 1938 version from Paul Whiteman and his Swing Wing to signal when the killer (The Creeper) is coming.What is the meaning of the Jeepers Creepers song?
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The word peepers is an informal term meaning "eyes". And the main lyric of the song Jeepers Creepers is:
Jeepers creepers, where'd you get those peepers?
Jeepers creepers, where'd you get those eyes?
Given that the body-part stealing creature
covets the eyes of the poor young man he is pursuing
it is reasonable to suspect that this song amuses the creature in some way, and might explain why it chooses to listen to this song while it is busy at work.
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