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Watched last night - packed to the rafters and a well behaved audience enjoying the jolts.
I thought it was a pretty good adaptation with care taken on the characters and sense of place. Enjoyed the day-light horror.
It's a long time since I read the book but it seemed to do a good job (clearly compressed in time-frame). I don't think the scares translated particularly well with the whole modern CGI jump fest done by the numbers as in the Conjuring etc. But there were some freaky moments.
I did think unlike a lot of horror films they took care with the characters and unfolding of the story. Stranger Things (itself a homage and one of the actors is here too) and You tube clown idiots have definitely pre-marketed this. It will do very well.
Great cinematography too.
Worth a trip but don't go in expecting this to be the whole story!
I saw the mini series on TV must be 25 years ago and that was well creepy and then read the book about 15 years ago. Like most Stephen King books, fabulously tense right through until the end which was very disappointing.
If I do go and see the film, I'll be on my own ....as my wife hates scary films! 🙁
A bit tricky to search for!
Looks good, but I'm in the same boat as you Rockape. Mrs Binners has told me in no way on gods earth are we going to watch it, as the original gave her nightmares for weeks
One of her mates took his teenage daughter to see it, and then that night sneaked into her room and tied a load of red balloons to the end of her bed for when she woke up. Proper freaked her out! 😆
I agree, not scary but a brilliant remake!
went to see it on monday, on my own! as i do most mondays, on my own! (deep joys of working away)
as another huge fan of Tim Curry's IT I was also sceptical when i heard a remake was imminent, but expectations were heightened on the back of all the reviews and record braking box office performance!!
was not disappointed, i thought it was great! i tend to find horror funny and was grinning throughout, loved the 80's styling (nods to Stranger Things is apparent) and the bully was abhorrent!! there were a good few jumps in there too in fairness, and the the projector scene was creepy!!
one thing that crossed my mind tho, Derry must have the highest no of zero-shits-giving cops and parents anywhere in the world!! folk were dropping like flies but nobody ever noticed... 🙂 top film.
also in a world where clowns run round the sewers killing kids, the most menacing character was Beverleys grubby father!!
One of her mates took his teenage daughter to see it, and then that night sneaked into her room and tied a load of red balloons to the end of her bed for when she woke up. Proper freaked her out!
Bloody hell, I'm not surprised, the b@stard! 😮
I'd suggest we go and watch it togever....so we could discuss all the STW nobbys on the way, but as you live in Manc land and me in sunny Surrey, sadly not!
From the thread I started:
I've just been to see it and really enjoyed it: it was both scary and genuinely funny in equal measure.
I was sceptical, having seen the original tv mini series and read the book, but I thought it was done well.
The walk home, on a wet, windy night, past many road-side surface water drains was a little interesting Needless to say, I went the well-lit way
Our IT department is a bit of a horror story too.
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what? The film is only part 1? 😮
what? The film is only part 1?
Not sure if joking, but I'll go: Yes, this one focuses on the group as teenagers, the next one will be about them as adults. I seem to remember the original TV series mainly focused on the adults, with extended flashbacks showing what happened the first time around.
It says at the end of the film that it's to be continued.
Chapter 2 is happening. i read that Jessica Chastain was cast as grown up Beverley...
It was a fairly obvious thing to do - commercially and for the narrative - it's a big book.
Derry must have the highest no of zero-shits-giving cops and parents anywhere in the world!! folk were dropping like flies but nobody ever noticed...
One of the points of the book was that the evil in Derry had suffused into the townsfolk as well, so they either couldn't see what was going on in front of them, or were numb to it (or an active part of it).
I seem to remember the original TV series mainly focused on the adults, with extended flashbacks showing what happened the first time around.
Again, the book hops constantly between the main characters as children and adults. Probably a better idea to split them up rather than squish the narratives together into one film.
@ martinhutch
It wasn't a criticism, just an observation. I agree, it makes sense to split them up.
Somebody in my area has a sense of humour, was walking the dog and he started going mental and pulling on the lead then I spotted this 😯
Thought I was going to get jumped by somebody in a clown suit, it's round the corner from where a stream disappears into a big underground storm drain type thing too 😆
Will have to go to the cinema and watch it now!
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Not sure how I'd react to that balloon. As I watched the series when I was younget and it freaked me out.
Hahaha brilliant [shivers slightly]
Think I was about 10 when I watched the series, I'll admit to looking over my shoulder a few times walking away from that balloon 😳
Oh my, that's really creepy
Goonies does horror.
Bill Skarsgarf does a fresh but brilliantly Ant turn as Pennywise, the styling works and his delivery, the manic swings in mood and tone are brilliant.
Yeah, I thought it was original enough to add a fresh take on it, but close enough to honour the original material.
Finally got round to seeing this last night and I was a little disappointed - OK, but not great.
A few too many horror cliches for me at the start - flickering lights, rapid movement of scary person, spooky derelict house*, loud jumpy noises.
Seemed it was trying to be a horror movie rather than a representation of the book.
There was a creepiness and sense of forboding to the book that was missing from the film - it needed slowing down, needed to focus on the characters more (this was the story for me, the bond between them), needed to be more disturbing.
Perhaps a film isn't the right format for it.
And the casting of the kid from Strangers Things as Rich Tozier seemed wrong - like two formats were clashing. Especially due to the 80s setting.
(*I know it was a derelict house in the book, but why make it the stereotype horror movie house).
Just seen It, quite liked.
The freaky painting - Jimmy Carr, no??
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That was one of the creepiest scenes in the whole movie.
I don't think anyone over 20 is the target audience I liked it but it was to bits and pieces for me.
It should scare the daylight out of most early teens and that's the best age to see horror films and I think it's intended audience.
As a happy coincidence I've got a bottle of helium and balloons in time for Halloween that will be left over from my wife's 40th party.
It’s a 15, so not entirely sure it’s aimed at under-20s. If it is they screwed that up!
Loved the book, wasn’t really a fan of the Tim Curry version, but wanted to see this. Will have to pick it up when it’s out ‘on video’ (because saying I’ll stream it from whichever service gets it first just doesnt have the same ring to it).