A blind man reports on an eclipse, a light phenomenon that he perceives through senses that do not involve sight. He takes us by the hand and guides us through the dark, through this temporary event that transforms the world as we know it.
- Released: 2017-09-06
- Runtime: 135 minutes
- Genre: Fantasy, Horror
- Stars: Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hamilton, Jake Sim, Logan Thompson, Owen Teague, Jackson Robert Scott, Stephen Bogaert, Stuart Hughes, Geoffrey Pounsett, Pip Dwyer, Molly Atkinson, Steven Williams, Elizabeth Saunders, Megan Charpentier, Joe Bostick, Ari Cohen, Anthony Ulc, Javier Botet, Katie Lunman, Carter Musselman, Tatum Lee, Edie Inksetter, Kasie Rayner, Isabelle Nélisse, Neil Crone, Sonia Gascón, Janet Porter, Roberto Campanella, Kate Moyer, Kelly Van der Burg, Martha Gibson, Jocelyn Mattka, Don Tripe, Liz Gordon, Paige Rosamond, Memo Díaz Capt., Chantal Vachon, David Katzenberg
- Director: Andy Muschietti, Anouk de Clercq, Tom Callemin
Comments
- AlsExGal - 19 December 2022
Slightly updated, partial retelling of Stephen King's massive tome
It's 1988, and a group of young teens in the town of Derry, Maine are terrorized by an otherworldly clown named Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard), who can make them see their worst fears. They must band together to stop the fiend before it kills them all.
King's novel succeeded in large part due to the nostalgic immersion into Baby Boomer cultural touchstones. The filmmakers decision to update the setting to the late 1980's is understandable in the sense that the follow-up, featuring the adult versions of the characters, will now chronologically fit with modern times. The filmmakers also decide to forgo any excessive wallowing in 1980's pop iconography, with a movie poster here and a song there the only references. That boils the story down to the horror film essentials, and while there's nothing original in the mix, it is well presented, and features a handful of memorable scare moments. The special effects are also largely successful, and Skarsgard is good as the monstrous clown. The filmmakers also made the interesting decision to not explain Pennywise, perhaps leaving that for the sequel. I'd be curious what a first time viewer, with no knowledge of the source novel or the previous 1990 TV mini-series version, thought of the story.
I recently caught up with the first season of the TV series Stranger Things, which almost certainly had some impact on this film version of It, even going so far as to cast one of the show's leads in this as well. That's not a problem, though, as that kid (Wolfhard) is good in both, and the rest of the cast in this is also terrific, with Lillis, as the sole girl in the group, and the aforementioned Wolfhard, as the foul-mouthed jokester, the stand-outs. - mickeythechamp - 3 October 2022
young adult horror identitycrisis
After revisiting this movie for what I think is the third Or fourth time I started to be a bit more critical of it. I still think this is a good movie but it doesn't land all the things it tries to do.
We follow the losers club, a group of outcast kids who most uncover how to defeat the evil entety they call It aka pennywise the dancing clown.
Bill Skarsgård gives a great preformance as pennywise and I would kinda love to see him have more screentime. At the same time that might hurt the chatecter and take away even more time from the losers club.
The losers club has some issues to me. Overall the kids preformances are great but some of them is simply not given a charecter in this movie. While Bill and Beverly are fleshed out charecters, Mike and especially Stanley are given nothing in this movie. They might as well not be in the movie but the source material demands it.
The scares in this movie were not very affective to me and seems more like disturbing images you would find in a YouTube video. This however makes this movie a good "kids first horror movie" contender. The few times the movie got me were suttle things in the background rather than the actually scares I was suppose to react to.
There is some amazing shots in this movie and the camera work is overall really well done. The score is also really good. It shifts between happy and horror really seemless.
The movie also has an identitycrisis sometimes with wierd music choises and jokes. The movie doesn't really have a consistent tone and the shift between young adult, comedy and horror is not woven together perfectly.
While I find the movie good I noticed all the small things that bugged me way more this time. I'll gladly recommend it but don't expect the next horror classic as it is hyped up to be.
