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[Friday The 13th]

I LOVE how Stephen King can take something mundane like sink drains and make them creepy forever! Have you ever read his short story "The Moving Finger" in Nightmares & Dreamscapes? It's a general theme in his work that stupefies me, and I secretly want to try an incorporate it in my fiction. And I do, late at night, always worry about hearing that small voice at the other end of the drain...

I agree

[Zach]

The library scene cracked me up!! Tim Curry really had fun as that character. "Do you have Prince Albert in a can? Ya do? Well, you better let him out... Owa-Owa Owa-Owa!!"

lol... I agree that's is the funniest scene in the movie

[FreddysFingers]

It's funny because Pennywise is a monster but he still retains his clown-like behavior.

[Zach]

It's funny because Pennywise is a monster but he still retains his clown-like behavior.

And what kind of monster is pennywise?

[mrblue]

He's nothing. Isn't he jus the "deadlights" when he's not in any form?

[Zach]

He's nothing. Isn't he jus the "deadlights" when he's not in any form?

I first thought he was an evil clown like joker in Batman series...lo..

[FreddysFingers]

And what kind of monster is pennywise?

Well, Pennywise is part of a larger world that Stephen King created... this world can be seen in full by reading his Dark Tower series books. Pennywise is an empathic vampire (a vampire that feeds on emotion) much like what Tak is in Desperation or Dandelo.

[VampyreRayne]

The library scene cracked me up!! Tim Curry really had fun as that character. "Do you have Prince Albert in a can? Ya do? Well, you better let him out... Owa-Owa Owa-Owa!!"

Tim Curry is just an awesome character actor, period. It's evident how much he liked this character. Ultra creepy, and did not half-ass it at all! Brilliant.

[FreddysFingers]

Even in Home Alone 2 Tim Curry had the 'Grinch' smile.

[Friday The 13th]

Woah Woah woah WOAH Dwight.

[VampyreRayne]

Well, Pennywise is part of a larger world that Stephen King created... this world can be seen in full by reading his Dark Tower series books. Pennywise is an empathic vampire (a vampire that feeds on emotion) much like what Tak is in Desperation or Dandelo.

<3 <3 <3 The Dark Tower Series!

That is all...

[Zach]

People were terrified of swimming in the sea after the movie "Jaws". This movie did to me for clowns what "Jaws" did for swimming in the sea. After watching this, clowns will just never be the same to me again. The unrecognizable Tim Curry portrays a very scary and perhaps even somewhat classic horror character. Pennywise/It surely is one scary looking character!To be honest without the character Pennywise/It this two parts TV-movie wouldn't had been very well watchable or recommendable. The movie has a typically awful looking TV-movie visual style and the actors and storytelling aren't much good either. I have quite some fantasy but I'm just no big fan of Stephen King's horror novels. The story and the moments in it are just always highly unlikely, silly and over-the-top. "It" is no exception on this. Another major disappointing aspect of the movie are the special effects and the awful ending that is just a major let down and just isn't fitting and doesn't seem to have an awful lot to do to the earlier scary moments and the character Pennywise/It. Still for the fans of the horror-genre, there is plenty to enjoy. The movie has some good, original and well constructed scary moments and the character Pennywise/It should be reason enough for horror-fans to watch this two part made for TV movie.And of course on the acting front of the child actors (with the exception of the one who played Bowers) fare better than the adult actors,with the exception,of course,.Some of them are laughably bad in parts(especially the one playing the adult Bill when he tries to stutter,so sad when young Johnathon Brandis played him so well).Pennywise always gave me the creeps,possibly in a way no other horror movie character could,but all the other scary stuff is few and far between.At the end of the day,it was only ever a TV movie,and it is kept well within the confines of its perimeters.Well what I would like to say on my last words is Tim Curry is a terrifying form as Pennywise and I considered him one of the scariest characters in the history of cinema,never mind the fact he only ever appeared in a TV movie and possibly Harry Anderson.

[FreddysFingers]

<3 <3 <3 The Dark Tower Series!

That is all...

The entire series proves King's genius!

[VampyreRayne]

The entire series proves King's genius!

I couldn't agree more! And all the tangential elements in several of his "stand alone" books?! I mean, c'mon! I would love to pick his brain and just see how he keeps it all in order. Amazing!

[Friday The 13th]

People were terrified of swimming in the sea after the movie "Jaws". This movie did to me for clowns what "Jaws" did for swimming in the sea. After watching this, clowns will just never be the same to me again. The unrecognizable Tim Curry portrays a very scary and perhaps even somewhat classic horror character. Pennywise/It surely is one scary looking character!To be honest without the character Pennywise/It this two parts TV-movie wouldn't had been very well watchable or recommendable. The movie has a typically awful looking TV-movie visual style and the actors and storytelling aren't much good either. I have quite some fantasy but I'm just no big fan of Stephen King's horror novels. The story and the moments in it are just always highly unlikely, silly and over-the-top. "It" is no exception on this. Another major disappointing aspect of the movie are the special effects and the awful ending that is just a major let down and just isn't fitting and doesn't seem to have an awful lot to do to the earlier scary moments and the character Pennywise/It. Still for the fans of the horror-genre, there is plenty to enjoy. The movie has some good, original and well constructed scary moments and the character Pennywise/It should be reason enough for horror-fans to watch this two part made for TV movie.And of course on the acting front of the child actors (with the exception of the one who played Bowers) fare better than the adult actors,with the exception,of course,.Some of them are laughably bad in parts(especially the one playing the adult Bill when he tries to stutter,so sad when young Johnathon Brandis played him so well).Pennywise always gave me the creeps,possibly in a way no other horror movie character could,but all the other scary stuff is few and far between.At the end of the day,it was only ever a TV movie,and it is kept well within the confines of its perimeters.Well what I would like to say on my last words is Tim Curry is a terrifying form as Pennywise and I considered him one of the scariest characters in the history of cinema,never mind the fact he only ever appeared in a TV movie and possibly Harry Anderson.

I agree it did make Clowns creepy

[FreddysFingers]

I couldn't agree more! And all the tangential elements in several of his "stand alone" books?! I mean, c'mon! I would love to pick his brain and just see how he keeps it all in order. Amazing!

Can you imagine the spread sheet of all his books and how they all link together?

[Evil Bong]

I watch it around halloween every year. Does anyone else think that clowns are evil?



When I see a shower drain I think of Pennywise. Best part of the movie for me. I thought the ending seemed rushed, kind of weak.

[Raegan]

book was better

[LolliePop]

I HATE clowns. As in cannot stand them in any way. Not killer klowns - they're just rubbery - but the human looking ones... So Pennywise is just damn nasty.

And when I was a kid - that scene of him climbing up the lamp post just gave me the sickest feeling of revulsion. I'm not much better now.

[FreddysFingers]

Yeah, that photo album scene was freaky because it was a blast from the unwanted past. The way that he's bitter, cold and hateful of the kids and the way he says he'll kill them all. Sent shivers down my spine. There's something deeply frightening about a town that hides it's past horrors from new generations.