"This guy must have 5, maybe 600 bodies down there and I have seen em. Stuck up on the walls like some psycho version of the Sistine Chapel." ~Darry Jenner
The first House of Pain. Above ground abandoned church.
The House of Pain is the basement of the old Florida Crossroad Church on the intersection crossing Poho County.
It is the first known lair used in the 23rd spring of 2001 that siblings Darry and Trish Jenner encounter before being pursued by the Creeper.
It appears firstly and only in Jeepers Creepers before its incineration.
Jeepers Creepers[]
A tapestry of hundreds of corpses in the basement of the abandoned church named House of Pain.
Kenny and Darla stitched on the wall with the hundreds of other bodies.
The house of pain only appeared in the first film. Darry investigates the house of pain after seeing what appeared to be dead bodies being thrown down the pipe. Darry tries to find out if any of those bodies tossed down the pipe were alive. Trish holds onto his feet as he hears a sound and tries to get them to respond. However, he gets startled by rats causing Trish to drop him down the pipe. He finds the body of a Dying Boy, whose torso was stitched heavily. Barely able to breathe, the boy tries to tell him something (sounded like he was trying to tell him hide), however, he dies shortly. While Darry looks in horror to see a pile of these bodies and looks for a way out. There he finds several preserved dead bodies covering the walls and ceiling, some of which are up to two hundred years old, including the bodies of Kenny and Darla, who were believed to be urban legends. He becomes traumatized by the sight, especially when learning that the legend of Kenny and Darla was true. Darry soon found his way out of the Creeper's lair and meets up with Trish and they leave. The Jenners make their way to a local diner and before they could call the police, they get a phone call from a strange woman, later revealed to be a psychic named Jezelle Gay Hartman, who tries to warn the Jenners of the monster and its House of Pain. When the Jenners call the police, Darry tries to explain everything he saw and how there are hundreds of corpses, some having petrified wood to preserve them. Darry describes it as "some psycho version of the Sistine Chapel." The Creeper soon returns and realizes that someone has been snooping around his lair, the Creeper goes after the Jenner siblings, finding their car and discovering Darry was in his lair, which he goes back to. His suspicions confirmed, the Creeper burns all evidence of any bodies realizing pretty soon that he would be found out.
At the end of the movie, the Creeper makes a new "house of pain" within an abandoned factory.
The interior of the "house of pain" itself also contained what appeared to be old, wooden-geared machines, which would date them to around the 1750s (the last time wooden gears were commonly used in machinery) unless the Creeper created them himself. Numerous vials can also be seen, containing what are assumed to be embalming and preserving chemicals used to preserve the bodies adorning the walls.
Jeepers Creepers 2[]
Although not seen, the house is mentioned when the students on the school bus hear a radio news report on the grisly discovery found in the burnt wreckage.
Despite the building the House was built under being burnt, some of the bodies were still preserved enough for the police to exhume and understand what they were dealing with. It was revealed that there were over 300 bodies in the house, and some of the corpses contained false teeth made out of wood, indicating that most of the corpses were over 200 years old, yet were unable to find any one complete body, as each one was missing either external limbs or internal organs, having previously been eaten by the Creeper.
Jeepers Creepers 3[]
The film takes place between the first and second film. Like the second film, the house is mentioned at the beginning of the film by Dan Tashtego telling Sergeant David Tubbs, making Tubbs question why the Creeper burned down his lair (to hide what it does not want the police to know). The conversation takes place shortly after the Creeper abducted Darry. The second lair was not seen or mentioned since no one knows where it is.
Trivia[]
- Like in the movie, the church used in the filming burned down in real life.
- It is unknown if the second House of Pain was ever discovered in the 2024 flash forward scene in Jeepers Creepers 3.
- It is unknown how long ago was the church abandoned and how long the Creeper has occupied its space for his House of Pain. Based on the preserved corpses, it has likely been taken over by the Creeper for over 200 years.
- Jezelle is the first and only person to mention it by name saying the Creeper named it the House of Pain. It is unknown, however, how she knows that since the Creeper does not talk nor is it going to be written anywhere.