Director Victor Salva returns with his bat-winged creation "The Creeper" for this campy sequel to the popular 2001 horror shocker. Here, the flying flesh-eater has one more day to gorge on human body parts before his automatic hibernation cycle begins. What unfolds is a B-movie-style monster flick, as the creature disables a school bus and then starts picking off his chosen victims from the obnoxious teens within. The bickering youngsters provide plenty of tension as they try to formulate their escape, while the isolated, largely night-time setting adds to the overall sense of vulnerability and unease. Yet, for all its gory chills, the film is predominantly tongue-in-cheek and blackly comic, thus avoiding the logic flaws that ultimately hampered the original. Returning actor Jonathan Breck is joyously over the top as the famished fiend, but it's avenging father Ray Wise in Captain Ahab mode who gives the relentless tale its most theatrical shot of fun.

When their bus is crippled on the side of a deserted road, a team of high school athletes discover an opponent they cannot defeat – and may not survive.