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Dante Belasco
Basketball player
Dante Belasco
Gender: Male
Age: 17-18
Status: Deceased
Actor: Al Santos
First appearance: Jeepers Creepers 2


Dante Belasco was a supporting character from Jeepers Creepers 2. He was one of the Bannon Bantams basketball players terrorized and killed by the Creeper.

Jeepers Creepers 2[]

Dante was riding back home to Bannon County after his high school basketball team won the state championship. Upon hearing an update on the radio from the police excavating the Creeper's House of Pain, Dante sat beside Scott Braddock, asking him if he believed it. Scotty shot back a sarcastic "No, they're making it up."

Dante was then mentioned by Jake Spencer to Izzy Bohen while the two were peeing outside. Jake indicated that the team believed Izzy was gay and that he wrote a lot about Dante due to having a crush on him. This was never confirmed though.

When the Creeper began selecting which students it wanted to eat, Dante was one of the few picked out.

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Immediately after Dante is ensnared in the Creeper's wings, we see only his feet and sneakers remain free to struggle hopelessly as the creature lifts Dante off the ground.

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Dante dying in the hands of the creeper. His head can be seen as eaten by the creepers and the body still moved after it.

After the Creeper's head was injured on the bus, it flew into the air and then landed on the bus, breaking the windows and putting a hole in the roof. One of its wings draped through the hole, separating the bus from front to back. The students in the back tried to move toward the front, each moving the wing out of the way. One of the students remarked it was like a shower curtain. When Dante moved under it, he grabbed the wing and amused, commented it was more like toilet paper. The wing suddenly ensnared Dante, and the Creeper ripped his head off. When the wing receded, Dante's headless body flailed for several moments, horrifying the other students until it collapsed. The Creeper replaced its own head with Dante's head which then changed to look like the Creeper's own head.

Trivia[]

  • Dante is the first of the students to die in the second film. Although Bucky was the first student the Creeper attempted to abduct.
  • Dante's actor Al Santos was the 2nd actor besides Jonathon Breck to play the Creeper, during the head replacement transition.
    • The first actor besides Breck to play the Creeper was Darry Jenner's actor Justin Long for the ending of the first film to show the Creeper has taken Darry's eyes.
  • Dante's head was the last body part the Creeper was seen able to harvest and eat on-screen before the end of his hunting cycle in 2001.
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