Plot
The story begins for about three more days after the events of the first film. A farmer, Jack Taggart, Sr. (Ray Wise) is putting up fence posts while his son, Jack Jr. (Luke Edwards) is repairing their car. Billy Taggart (Shaun Fleming) sets up some of the scarecrows in the farm's cornfield. One of the scarecrows in the field begins to move on its own. Billy runs to get his brother, but the "scarecrow" comes to life and sweeps down on him. Jack Sr. and Jack Jr chase after Billy and his captor until the "scarecrow" sprouts its wings and disappears into the sky with Billy in its grasping wills.
A high school basketball team, their coaches and cheerleaders become stranded on a highway. After failing to call for help for several hours, they decide to drive back on the school bus with the remaining tires. As night approaches, one of the cheerleading girls, Minxie (Nicki Aycox), has a mysterious dream about Billy Taggart and Darry Jenner (Justin Long) who are silently and frantically trying to warn her with her friends, her coaches and the bus driver about the Creeper (Jonathan Breck), who she sees as a black silhouette, tossing a shuriken. It hits the tire, deflating it. The teens are rushed back in the bus. The Creeper returns, taking the coach and the bus driver. The other remaining coach asks the teens what they saw: "She flew away". As everyone begins losing their control, the other coach prepares to look around, until the Creeper grabs him with its feet-like talons and flies off with the other coach while the teens on the bus wondering for the other friend from what this creature was still, doing up there.
Meanwhile, Jack Sr. and his son weld a home-made harpoon-gun to their truck and make harpoons to shoot with it; they're heading out to avenge Billy.
In the meantime, the teens on the bus are toyed with by the Creeper; it picks out the kids it wants to eat, making them increasingly paranoid. Minxie falls unconscious, having another dream, where Darry's spirit tells her everything about the Creeper. Waking up, she tells them what she learned, forcing them to try radioing for help. The Taggarts had answered them after they see the couple's car that had been crashed into a tree, telling them that he's on his way. The teens celebrate the good news, but the Creeper attacks one of them (Bucky), trying to pull his head through the roof. Luckily, another teen uses a javelin (leftover from a previous trip) to impale the creature through his head; this forces it to tear the javelin out along with the left side of its head. Wounded, the Creeper flies up into the sky, only to crash back down into the bus, jamming the doors shut.
Its wing crashes through the roof of the bus, grabbing one of the teens and eating his head. Decapitating himself, the Creeper regrow his head and takes off. One of the teens, now overwhelmed with fear, decides to toss everyone the Creeper picked for his menu off the bus. However, everyone gets off the bus, deciding to look for help. The Creeper was waiting for them; he takes out two teens while they scatter. The Taggarts find Minxie, who tells them about the Creeper's near-invincibility; they have her lead them back to bus anyway. One of the teens returns to the bus to find out one of the other teens that they see Bucky had also returned to find them here in the bus. Because the Creeper didn't picked the 2 teens out, since while they are still, had been hiding there in this bus; they keep their distance as the Creeper will show up to get him. Just as they thought, the Creeper tries pulling Bucky through the hole in the roof, but the Taggarts reach the bus and scare the Creeper by flashing their headlights.
Jack Sr. fires a harpoon made with a knife the Creeper left behind, during his abduction of Billy, at the beast, landing a direct hit in its left shoulder; he meant to hit the Creeper's heart. However, the Creeper removes the harpoon and tosses back at him, nearly killing Jack Jr. The Creeper makes another attack on the bus, but Jack Sr. harpoons it again (through the bus windows), knocking it into the distance. An enraged Creeper flies up into the sky once more, shredding his disguise off for better mobility. The sheer force of the creature's pull on the rope tears it through the roof of the bus. The Taggarts abandon their vehicle just as the rope causes it to overturn; the Creeper leaves them alone, heading off to find the other teens.
Three teens find an abandoned truck that that this was driving and has been another victim for the Creeper. Then suddenly, the teens see the Creeper has come back. So, they decided to take the truck, only to be chased by the Creeper. However, the teen driving the truck (Izzy) cleverly decided to pushed and shoved one of the teens off the truck as he decided to step on the brakes until the Creeper reaches the teen in back; the creature flies through the window, causing the truck to overturn. Izzy climbs out from the wreckage while the other teen wakes up, finding his leg badly injured. The truck explodes, waking up the Creeper, who has also survived. It smells the fear of the nearby teen, preparing to go after him; however, it finds its missing both wings, along with an arm and leg. It "leap frogs" after the teen, pouncing on him. As the Creeper is about to eat the teen to replace his lost limbs, Jack Sr. shoots the Creeper in the head. The Creeper is unable to defend itself as Jack Sr. stabs it in the heart 31 times with a harpoon. The Creeper apparently succumbs to its wounds, with its "face wings" closing over its entire face. Minxie explains that the Creeper didn't die; its time ran out, so the Creeper is in hibernation until another 23 years pass until it comes back for its revenge for the next 23rd day of spring for 23 more days to eat the next parts of the human fleshes from other human beings to get for itself. A skeptical Jack Sr. stabs the Creeper once more and, upon seeing no reaction, believes that Minxie is wrong: "Looks dead to me."
Over the next 23 years, the Taggarts had been stitching the damaged corpse of the Creeper together with each other forever and they had decided to present it as a roadside tourist attraction to the other People to see it. The Three Of The Teens from all over the area had decided to come here to pay $5 to see the legendary "Bat Out of Hell", paying $10 for a picture; the crows are still attracted to the creature. The harpoon gun, always loaded and ready to fire, is aimed at the creature's chest. Jack Sr., now very much older, appears to be waiting for something that will happen in "three more days, give or take a day or two"; just before the first day of spring, the Creeper will be awaken again to get its revenge for about every 23rd day of spring for 23 more days to eat the next parts of the human fleshes from other human beings to get for itself.
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