| Gaylen Brandon | |
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| Gender: | Female |
| Age: | Mid to late 50s |
| Status: | Living |
| Relatives: | Kenny Brandon (son)
Addison Brandon (granddaughter) |
| Actress: | Meg Foster |
| First appearance: | Jeepers Creepers 3 |
| Last appearance: | Jeepers Creepers 3 |
Gaylen Brandon is a supporting character in the film Jeepers Creepers 3. She is a grieving grandmother, having lost her son 23 years earlier to the Creeper. She remains on her farm with her granddaughter Addison Brandon.
Jeepers Creepers 3[]
In the opening scene of the film, 23 years earlier, Kenny Brandon witnesses the Creeper capturing another man. Although the man was captured, he managed to sever one of the Creeper's hands with his machete. Soon after, the Creeper's hand and machete fall from the sky and onto the hood of the truck.
Gaylen is first seen on her farm during the sunrise and is visited by Kenny, who died 23 years prior and appears to her as a ghost or a vision. His clothes are torn and tattered. Kenny tries to warn her about Creeper returning and "the thing" buried on the farm. He tries to tell her to take Addie and leave as the Creeper will kill anyone in the way. She refuses to listen and denies if Kenny really is even there. He tells her that he is a part of the Creeper now and leaves showing a stitched backside, horrifying her and showing what the Creeper did to him.
Kenny warning his mother of the Creeper's return
Gaylen talking to Tashtego about the Creeper's hand
The next day (Day 22), Gaylen digs up what Kenny buried. Kenny appears once again to warn her the Creeper is on its way, and it got Addie now. She refuses and screams at him to go away; she then unearths the Creeper's hand and places it on her backyard table. She examines the hand and touches it. Because of this, she is suspended in the air by the incredible grasp of the hand and enters a hypnotic state. After the hand lets her go, she traps it inside a broken flowerpot for Sheriff Tashtego and the Poho Police to inspect. She tells them about the night Kenny died and how he appeared angry and ordered her to stay in the house. She told them how he shot the hand before burying it, and that is the last time she saw her son alive. She finishes by telling Tashtego how touching the Creeper's hand will tell him all he needs to know about it.
Gaylen is last seen after Addie escapes from the Creeper and his truck. Gaylen, with Buddy Hooks, finds Addie and embraced her, relieved that Addie is alive. Off-screen, she and Addie left the farm, leaving behind a sign with the Creeper's severed hand next to where it was unearthed telling the Creeper, "We know what you are!" angering the Creeper to yell out a screech, causing the crows and ravens to die from its scream.
Personality[]
Gaylen is seen to be mentally unstable, most likely caused by her son's death at the hands of the Creeper. She is seen to have daydreams and visions of her injured son. It is apparent that she cared greatly for her son because of her constant sobbing and mood swings.
Trivia[]
- Gaylen is the first character to go into a hypnotic state caused by the Creeper's severed hand.
- Tashtego is the second character to do so.
- She is the second character to experience a vision/dream of a deceased victim of the Creeper.
- Minxie Hayes is first character to experience this, though she was not related to the victim in her dream.