The horn comes from Jeepers Creepers, the 2001 American horror film about the Creeper, a creature that hunts travellers on a rural highway every twenty three years. Its old truck and long horn blast became one of the film's most recognisable details, signalling an attack long before the creature is seen. Clips of the horn later spread across horror edits, prank videos and soundboards, where the familiar blast works even without the film footage because audiences connect it with pursuit, panic and an unavoidable threat approaching from behind.