For those with slightly loftier expectations for teen-horror movies, 2001’s “Jeepers Creepers” offered glimmers of possibility, especially in its visual pacing and narrative setup.

As a die hard fan of the first two Jeepers Creepers movies, it pains me to say this: Jeepers Creepers 3 is the low point of the franchise, one from which I hope, but doubt, it will recover.

Yet “Jeepers Creepers” presents no logic and few likable characters. Instead, writer and director Victor Salva (“Powder”) offers up a nameless, creepy, flesh-eating monster and little ...