Before that, Justin Long saw his cursed fiancée swallowed into a fiery underworld in Drag Me to Hell, but the trend seemingly started with Jeepers Creepers, a movie that, understandably, doesn’t get talked much about these days due to the abhorrent crimes of its director – but it memorably features an ending that reeeaaally doesn’t work out so well for Long’s character.
While one could argue that many of these doomed horror roles subvert Long’s affable public persona, Jeepers Creepers came out in 2001, years before America even had a chance to be annoyed by those damn “I’m an Apple” commercials. It seems, instead, as if there’s something more deeply rooted in the screen presence of Justin Long that makes him the perfect candidate for repeatedly pretending to have his eyes gouged out on screen.
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