IT (2017)
8/10
Starring
Jaeden Lieberher
Bill Skarsgård
Wyatt Oleff
Jeremy Ray Taylor
Sophia Lillis
Directed by Andy Muschietti
If like me you were old enough to
have seen the 1990 TV Miniseries IT at
the time of its release your expectation of this movie will be high. I recall
how much I loved Tim Curry’s performance in the old IT and I was so worried that they will make a mess of this remake.
I give kudos to the writers and
the studio who decided to do a remake twenty-seven (27) years after the awesome
1990 miniseries, which goes in accordance with the novel’s tale of Pennywise
who comes to hunt the town of Derry, Maine every twenty-seven (27) years. Pennywise
main dish is children which he scares before he eats them.
The movie is based on a 1986
horror novel by Stephen King of the same name. IT was his 22nd book and 18th
novel, the plot focuses on the Town of Derry, were the local kids are
disappearing mysteriously one by one and leaving behind bloody remains.
A group of bullied kids were
united by their horrifying and strange encounters which they encounter from a
shapeshifting demon, taking the appearance of clown and terrorizing the
children using their fear and paranoia. The children then decide to face their
fear head on and take down the clown, but are they ready to face their fears?
That was the question you will see answered when you watch this movie.
When watching this movie what
gets you so ecstatically is when the children gets separated to be hunted by
Pennywise. During such scenes, he preys on their fears and the visual effects
of their fears gets you all freaked. Lastly, these individual points leave you wondering
what the final outcome will be and wishing so much that death will not be that
outcome for the individual members of The Losers Group.
This IT was played by Bill
Skarsgård, a swedish actor. It was not his scary performance that gets me to
love this movie, it is the visual effects of his character and the children’s
phobias that will freak you out to the very bone.
I do not remember the 1990
miniseries being half as scary or thrilling as this, neither do I recall the
visual effects being so compelling, here in this version their plan was to make
sure you are glued by the thrills of the movie and scared by the events.
This movie has been rated as the
best adaption of any of Stephen King’s books, and it has been racking in cash
from the box-office on the regular and setting new records.
You have to go see this movie in
preparation of the sequel that is set to be released in 2019.
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