Meanwhile, Bill and his friends start experiencing horrific visions that all seem to embody their worst fears. As time passes, Georgie’s older brother, Bill, becomes obsessed with finding Georgie, whom he insists is simply missing and not dead.

When Pennywise convinces Georgie to reach in to retrieve his boat, it reveals giant fangs and bites Georgie’s arm off, before dragging him back into the drain and killing him. When Georgie takes a closer look into the storm drain, he encounters a clown who introduces himself as Pennywise. One day, while chasing his paper boat down the street during a rainstorm, a young boy named Georgie is unable to catch his boat before it goes down into a nearby storm drain. While it does venture into scarier territory and the scares frequently work, Muschietti’s It falls back on traditional, cliched storytelling and blockbuster-esque marketing for the sake of sequel development.įor those that saw the original miniseries, Muschietti’s It follows a similar plot. So, how does It hold up on its own, free from comparison to its predecessors? The answer is two-fold: it is at once a disappointment and a surprising success.

Thus, I find it, on the one hand, disingenuous for me to try to interpret Muschietti’s It as it relates to a story that I have never personally read, and unfair to compare it to an outdated, low-budget TV miniseries, which itself has developed a kind of cult status, particularly among those who grew up in the 1980’s and 90’s. As I stated before, I have never read the book, though its inclusion as one of the scariest novels of the 20th century is well-known. The miniseries, directed by Tommy Lee Wallace, is poorly paced, poorly acted, and not all that scary. My initial feelings turned out to be correct, but I’m afraid that this still sets the bar too low to adequately judge Muschietti’s version. I felt that, for a variety of reasons, the 2017 revival of the killer clown’s story had nowhere to go but up. Having watched the entire three hour series in one sitting for the first time a few years ago, I can say without any reservation that it has not aged well, and has had no lasting impact on me.

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